Dr. Angele Smith is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Northern British Columbia, Canada. Her research focuses on landscapes, place, the construction and negotiation of cultural identities, and the politics of representation, and bridges many sub-disciplines including: cultural anthropology, ethnohistory and historical archaeology. Her current ongoing work in Ireland, funded by the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada, explores the articulation and negotiation of place and identity among communities of Nigerian asylum seekers. Amy Gazin-Schwartz is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Assumption College in Massachusetts and, with Olivia Lelong, co-director of the Strathnaver Province Archaeology Project in Scotland. She has interests in the archaeology of rural settlement and life and in the intersections between folklore and archaeology. She has done archaeological fieldwork on the island of Raasay, Scotland with the Association of Certificated Field Archaeologists, and in other parts of Great Britain and the northeastern US. She is co-editor (with Cornelius Holtorf) of Archaeology and Folklore (Routledge 1999)