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NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
Richard V. Lee is Professor of Medicine, Pediatrics, and Obstetrics and Adjunct Professor of
Anthropology at the State University of New York at Buffalo. He has been interested in the
health of isolated populations all of his professional life and has worked in the Brazilian
Amazon, the Southern Andes (Chile), the Northern Frontier District of Kenya, and the
Northwestern Himalaya (Kashmir and Ladakh).
Gabriele Reifenberg spent her working life in University (London)/College (Newnham College,
Cambridge) administration. After taking early retirement and a course for teaching English as a
Foreign Language, she hit the road, spending a year in Ladakh and 3 months at Tashi Jong, a
Tibetan refugee settlement in Himachal Pradesh. She has made four subsequent visits to Ladakh
and in 1998 brought out the first Ladakhi cookery book.
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