John Robert ShepherdJohn Shepherd is associate professor of anthropology at the University of Virginia. He is the author of Marriage and Mandatory Abortion among the 17th-century Siraya (Arlington, VA: Monograph of the American Ethnological Society,1995; reissued 2010) nd Statecraft and Political Economy on the Taiwan Frontier, 1600-1800 (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1993). Read More Read Less