Renato Rosaldo Doctor en Antropología Social por Harvard University. Temas de investigación: antropología sociocultural, teoría, historia, poética cultural, poesía, la etnografía como texto, Sociocultural anthropology, theory, history, cultural poetics, poetry, ethnography as text; isla Sudeste de Asia, Latinos US, México. Publicaciones destacadas: Editor, Cultural Citizenship in Island Southeast Asia: Nation and Belonging in the Hinterlands (2003); Editor, of Anthropology of Globalization: A Reader, (2001 con Jon Inda); Editor, Creativity/Anthropology (1993, con Smadar Lavie y Kirin Narayan); Culture and Truth: The Remaking of Social Analysis (1989); Editor, The Incas and the Aztecs, 1400-1800 (1982, con George Collier and John Wirth); Ilongot Headhunting. 1883-1974: A Study in Society and History (1980).