Sharika Thiranagama teaches anthropology at the New School for Social Research in New York and is author of In My Mother's House: The Intimacy of War in Sri Lanka, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press. Tobias Kelly is Senior Lecturer in social anthropology at the University of Edinburgh and author of This Side of Silence: Human Rights, Torture, and the Recognition of Cruelty, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.