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David Lipset is a professor of anthropology at the University of Minnesota. He has done intermittent fieldwork since 1981 among the Murik Lakes people of the Sepik River region in Papua New Guinea and has written several books that are based on that research. His books include Mangrove Man: Dialogics of Culture in the Sepik Estuary (Cambridge University Press, 1997) and Yabar: The Alienations of Murik Men in a Papua New Guinea Modernity (Palgrave MacMillan, 2017). His manuscript, Channel Stories: Place, Environment and Sea-Level Rise in Papua New Guinea, is under consideration for publication by HAU Books. He is also the author of the biography Gregory Bateson: The Legacy of a Scientist (Prentice-Hall, 1980) as well as several articles on the representation of non-Western peoples and cultures in the mass media.