Authors 
There is no question about the com- 
mitment of E. D. Starin to the study of 
wild primates. She has done fieldwork 
on chimpanzees in the Gombe Stream 
National Park in Tanzania, on langur 
monkeys in the Gir Forest of India and 
in Sri Lanka, on titi monkeys in Peru, 
and since 1978, on western red colobus 
monkeys in the Abuko Nature Reserve 
in The Gambia. Starin reports that she 
now dreams about colobus, does chi 
squares (statistical tests) in her sleep, 
and would like to remain in The Gam- 
bia forever. Her research, concentrated 
on the socioecology of the colobus, is 
conducted under the auspices of the 
Wildlife Conservation Department of 
The Gambia. Starin is a Ph.D. candi- 
date in anthropology at the City Uni- 
versity of New York. 
Andrew P. Ingersoll was born in 
Chicago, grew up in New York City, 
went to college in New England, and 
now lives in California. An atmospher- 
ic scientist, Ingersoll was an investiga- 
tor on the Voyager missions to Jupiter 
and is serving in a like capacity on the 
Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 missions to 
Saturn. Ingersoll was one of a group of 
scientists on the Voyager project team 
given NASA’s Exceptional Scientific 
Achievement Award for their work. A 
professor in the Division of Geological 
and Planetary Sciences at the Califor- 
nia Institute of Technology, Ingersoll 
has a Ph.D. in atmospheric physics. He 
specializes in planetary temperatures, 
heat budgets, winds, and climates. 
Much of his time is devoted to teaching 
and processing spacecraft data. A de- 
voted family man, he is also a dedicated 
jogger who tries to put in about five 
miles a day, even when the exercise has 
to be done in place. 
Interested in the varied historical ex- 
periences of Afro-American peoples, 
Sally Price and Richard Price have 
done extensive fieldwork among the 
Maroons of Suriname, the former 
Dutch colony in South America. The 
Maroons are the descendants of slaves 
who escaped from plantations in the 
colony and established independent 
communities in the rain forest. Al- 
though the initial focus of their study 
was not the arts of the Maroons, the 
Prices were eventually led to investi- 
gate the subject because of the Ma- 
roons’ own concern with aesthetic ideas 
and products. The Prices are spending 
a year in the Netherlands doing addi- 
tional research: Sally Price has a Na- 
tional Science Foundation postdoctoral 
fellowship to study Maroon folk tales, 
and Richard Price, on leave from his 
position as chairman of the Depart- 
ment of Anthropology at The Johns 
Hopkins University, is completing two 
books on early Maroon history, sup- 
ported by a Fulbright Fellowship. 
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