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Real Wizards: The search for Harry's ancestors
Who's who
A guide to some of the distinguished contributors to Real Wizards.
Sergei Arutiunov is Professor of Anthropology at the Russian Academy of Sciences, where he directs the Caucuses Department of the Institute of Ethnology. He has carried out fieldwork in Siberia, Japan, Uzbekistan and Georgia, and published numerous books on Japan, the Caucuses and cultural history.
Dr Gilly Carr is a Teaching Fellow in Archaeology at the University of Kent, where she teaches courses on Celtic Europe and Iron Age Britain. Her research interests include funerary archaeology, Roman Britain, medical anthropology, and the archaeology of identity and ethnicity.
Dr Miranda Green is Senior Lecturer in Archaeology at the University of Wales College in Newport, where she directs the Centre for the Study of Culture, Archaeology, Religions and Biogeography (SCARAB). Her books include The Gods of the Celts, The World of the Druids and Celtic Myths: The legendary past.
Professor Ronald Hutton is Professor of History at Bristol University. He has written widely on 17th-century England and the history of English folklore and custom. His books include The British Republic, The Rise and Fall of Merry England and The Triumph of the Moon: A history of modern pagan witchcraft
Michael McIntyre is the founder and Principal of the British School of Chinese Herbal Medicine, Chairman of the European Herbal Practitioner Association, editor of the European Journal of Herbal Medicine and a fellow of the National Institute of Medical Herbalists. His writings include Herbal Medicine for Everyone and The New Age Herbalist: How to use herbs for healing, nutrition, body care and relaxation (with Richard Mabey).
Professor Monique Simmonds is Head of Biological Interactions at the Jodrell Laboratory, Kew Gardens. She has carried out research into plants with potentially significant insecticidal and healing properties, bringing pharmacological expertise together with traditional knowledge.
Nikolai Tolstoy, great-nephew of the author Leo Tolstoy, is Chancellor of the Monarchist League and President of the Association of Bankrupts. His books include the family history The Tolstoys and Victims of Yalta, a critique of postwar forced repatriation to the Soviet Union, as well as the historical study The Quest for Merlin and the novel The Coming of the King, a fictional autobiography of Merlin (both out of print).
Wijnand van der Sanden is a government archaeologist for Drenthe Province in the Netherlands and one of the foremost authorities on bog bodies. In 1996 he curated an exhibition in Silkeborg, Denmark, gathering almost all the bog bodies of north-western Europe in one place. His book, Through Nature to Eternity: The bog people of north-west Europe, was published during the exhibition.
Dr Piers Vitebsky is Head of Social Science at the Scott Polar Research Institute in the University of Cambridge. He has conducted long-term anthropological fieldwork in tribal India and north-eastern Siberia, where he specialises in shamanism, indigenous psychology and subsistence ecology. His books include The Shaman: Voyages of the soul, trance, ecstasy and healing from Siberia to the Amazon.
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