Miriam T. Stark is a professor of anthropology at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa. She is the editor of the journal Asian Perspectives and is the codirector of the Lower Mekong Archaeological Project.

Brenda J. Bowser has studied women's lives, and material culture in Achuar, Quichua, and Zapara villages in the Ecuadorian Amazon since 1992. She is an assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology at California State University-Fullerton.

Lee Horne is a research associate at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology in Philadelphia. Her research interests lie in the fields of material culture, especially traditional crafts and vernacular architecture, the spatial organization of society, and museum anthropology.