Myron J. Aronoff is professor of political science and anthropology at Rutgers University where he has taught for 25 years. He received his Ph.D. in political science from U.C.L.A. and his Ph.D. in social anthropology from Manchester University (U.K.). He held research appointments at Manchester University for four years, taught at Tel Aviv University for eight years, was twice a fellow in residence at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies, and was a visiting professor at the University of Cape Town. He has published extensively on various aspects of Israeli society, culture, and politics and in the field of political anthropology--especially the relationship between culture and politics. His research has been sponsored by the Social Science Research Councils of the United Kingdom, the Ford Foundation, the Joint Committee on the Near and Middle East of the American Council of Learned Societies and the Social Science Research Council of the United States (among others). He is a former associate editor of Transaction/SOCIETY and editor of Political Anthropology. Dr. Aronoff is a past president of the Association for Political and Legal Anthropology and was the founding president of the Association for Israel Studies on which he serves on the Board of Directors. He has been vice president of the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences since 1993. Professor Aronoff has lectured at universities throughout the United States, as well as in the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Sweden, Israel, and South Africa.