Ramón Arzápalo Marín, Ph.D. Linguist Universidad Autónoma de México Alejandro de Avila Ethnobiologist Society for the Study of Biological Resources of Oaxaca Jill Leslie McKeever Furst, Ph.D. Art Historian Moore College of Art and Design Miguel León-Portilla, Ph.D. Historian Universidad Autónoma de México Linda Rosa Manzanilla Naím, Ph.D. Archaeologist Universidad Autónoma de México Geoffrey McCafferty, Ph.D. Archaeologist University of Calgary Ellen Messer, Ph.D. Anthropologist Brown University John Monaghan, Ph.D. Anthropologist University of Oklahoma Julieta Ramos-Elorduy, Ph.D. Biologist Universidad Autónoma de México Barbara Tedlock, Ph.D. Anthropologist State University of New York