Chumash Renaissance: Indian Casinos, Education, and Cultural Politics in Rural California
Paul H. Gelles, PhD, is a former professor of Anthropology at the University of California and has lived and worked for many years in indigenous communities in Peru. He is the author of Water and Power in Highland Peru (Rutgers 2000), the co-translator of Andean Lives: Gregorio Condori Mamani and Asunta Quispe Huamán  (Texas 1996), and the co-producer of the documentary film, “Transnational Fiesta: 1992.” Chumash Renaissance is his first book on native North America. Paul currently teaches Spanish and Anthropology at Midland School in Los Olivos, California.