Orin Starn is an anthropologist, writer, and occasional journalist. Early in his career he worked for many years in Peru, and is lead editor of the popular "The Peru Reader" as well authoring his own book "Nightwatch" about Andean village organizing. Starn, who grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area, also wrote the award-winning "Ishi's Brain" about the life and legend of the last survivor of California's Yahi tribe. More recently, Starn has written and taught about sports and society. His newest book, "The Passion of Tiger Woods," examines the superstar golfer's place in American society and culture. Starn is also the co-editor of "Indigenous Experience Today" about the history and politics of indigenous rights organizing. His op-ed pieces have run in the Los Angeles Times, Chronicle of Higher Education and other newspapers, and he has appeared on NPR, ESPN and numerous other radio and tv programs. Starn is currently professor and chair of the Department of Cultural Anthropology at Duke University, where he has won the university's highest undergraduate teaching award. He lives in Durham, North Carolina with his wife and two children.