Daniel Lende (dlende@usf.edu) is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of South Florida. His work focuses on the integration of neuroscience and anthropology, behavioral health, addiction, stress and trauma, and applied anthropology. He has done mixed-method research in Colombia and the United States. He is cofounder of the Neuroanthropology.net blog, now part of the Public Library of Science blogs, and coeditor of the 2012 volume
The Encultured Brain: An Introduction to Neuroanthropology from MIT Press. His work has also appeared in
Ethos,
Addiction,
Qualitative Health Research, and
Addiction Research and Theory.
Greg Downey (greg.downey@mq.edu.au) is Senior Lecturer in Anthropology at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. He has been conducting ethnographic and psychological research on sports, dance, and skill acquisition since 1992 in Brazil, Australia, New Zealand, and the United States. His first book, Learning Capoeira: Lessons in Cunning from an Afro-Brazilian Art (Oxford, 2005), was a study of the Afro-Brazilian dance and martial art, and he has published extensively on capoeira, no-holds-barred fighting, coaching, dance, music and other skills. Downey is especially interested in the ways physical education and training regimes in different cultures generate distinctive physiological capacities, behavior patterns, sensory abilities, and skill sets. His current research is on rugby training in Australia, New Zealand, and among Pacific Islanders. He is cofounder of the Neuroanthropology.net weblog, now part of the Public Library of Science (PLoS) Blogs, and coeditor of the 2012 MIT Press volume, The Encultured Brain: An Introduction to Neuroanthropology.
