From the desk of Melissa Schneider: China’s Mid-Autumn Festival – Let The Wife Races Begin

      Melissa Schneider, LMSW, is a licensed relationship counselor and the author of  The Ugly Wife is a Treasure at Home: True Stores of Love and Marriage in Communist China (Potomac Books, 2014), a collection of stories including the two … Continue reading From the desk of Melissa Schneider: China’s Mid-Autumn Festival – Let The Wife Races Begin

Neil L. Whitehead: An Appreciation

Michael E. Harkin is a professor of anthropology at the University of Wyoming. He served as associate editor of  Ethnohistory for ten years under Neil Whitehead and then as coeditor with Matthew Restall for six years. He is currently editor of Reviews in Anthropology. Neil Lancelot Whitehead (1956–2012) was an important anthropologist and ethnohistorian of lowland South America whose academic interests stretched well beyond this base to include explorations into music, sexuality, and the “post-human.” Neil was born in the London suburbs and was educated at Balliol College, Oxford. After receiving his bachelor’s degree in philosophy and psychology, he went … Continue reading Neil L. Whitehead: An Appreciation