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