Nancy Lindisfarne has done ground-breaking work in the anthropology of gender and masculinity. She taught for many years at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in London. Her most recent book, written in collaboration with Richard Tapper, is Afghan Village Voices: Stories from a Tribal Community.

Jonathan Neale studied anthropology at the London School of Economics and did fieldwork in Afghanistan. He is now a professional writer of plays, novels, history and nonfiction. He worked as an abortion counsellor for ten years, an HIV counsellor for six years, and a Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at Bath Spa University for eleven years. His most recent book is Fight the Fire: Green New Deals and Global Climate Jobs.