About the Author: Thomas W. Murphy, Ph.D., University of Washington in 2003, is President of the Department of Anthropology at Edmonds Community College and founder of the School Learn and Serve in the Field of Environmental Anthropology (LEAF). He conducted ethnographic, ethno-historical and environmental research in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Guatemala, Iraq, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, as well as archaeological projects in Japanese Gulch and Hope Island in the Salish Sea basin. He received the Honorable Mention at the 1993 Elie Wiesel Ethics Award for a reflective essay on the Persian Gulf War. The Diálogo Foundation awarded him the 1998 Prize for Theology and Writing of the Scriptures for his article, “The Phantom of Laban”. [...]