JIM BECKET is a screenwriter and movie director living in Southern California. Before filmmaking he had a varied career- ski racer, eternal student, human rights lawyer, development economist, journalist, author, and international civil servant with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. He graduated from Williams College and Harvard Law School and did graduate work in Switzerland and Chile. He has traveled much of the world with a long time interest in Latin America.
'As archaeologists we should be aware of the social context in which we are working, and the way in which our research bestows responsibilities beyond the narrow world of academia... This volume sets out the dilemma in an eloquent way, and should be read by everyone working in the Third World today.' - Mark Horton in Antiquity