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Heather A. Haas is Professor of Psychology at the University of Montana Western in Dillon, Montana. Her main research interests lie at the intersection of psychology and paremiology and focus on attempts to understand how people's endorsement and use of proverbs is related to their attitudes and behavior. Her previous research on links between proverb endorsement and personality traits, the paremiological minimum, proverb use in literary contexts, and proverb use in persuasive appeals has been published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Journal of American Folklore, Personality and Individual Differences, and Proverbium.Valdimar Tr. Hafstein is Professor in the Department of Folkloristics, Ethnology and Museum Studies at the University of Iceland. He is the author of three books on cultural heritage: Patrimonialities: Heritage vs. Property (co-authored with Martin Skrydstrup, 2020), Making Intangible Heritage: El Condor Pasa and Other Stories from UNESCO (2018), and Cultural Heritage in Iceland: Critical Approaches (in Icelandic, co-edited with Ólafur Rastrick, 2015). His documentary film, co-produced with Áslaug Einarsdóttir, The Flight of the Condor: A Letter, a Song and the Story of Intangible Cultural Heritage (2018), has been screened at film festivals and conferences worldwide and is available in Open Access online: http://flightofthecondorfilm.com/.Avis Mysyk holds a PhD in Anthropology and is a senior scholar (retired) in the School of Arts and Social Sciences at Cape Breton University. Her research focuses on both the past—pre-Hispanic and colonial—and present of Huaquechula, Mexico. Her articles have appeared in various journals, including Ancient Mesoamerica, Ethnohistory, and Annals of Tourism Research. Her current research explores the ways in which Huaquechula engaged with the colonial legal system to defend the rights bestowed on it by the Spanish Crown.Jón Þór Pétursson is Assistant Professor of Ethnology at Lund University, Sweden, and a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Iceland. His research interests lie within the field of food and foodways, cultural heritage, sustainability, and symbiotic practices. He defended his PhD dissertation in Folkloristics/Ethnology from the University of Iceland in 2020. His dissertation focuses on how people create meaningful relationships within the food value chain through cultural practices surrounding the production and consumption of organic, local, and heritage foods.Ziying You is Assistant Professor of Chinese Studies at The College of Wooster. She received her PhD in East Asian Languages and Literature with a concentration in Chinese Folklore Studies at The Ohio State University in 2015. She is the author of Folk Literati, Contested Tradition, and Heritage in Contemporary China: Incense Is Kept Burning (2020) and co-editor, with Lijun Zhang, of Chinese Folklore Studies Today: Discourse and Practice (2019). She is also co-editor, with Patricia Ann Hardwick, of a special issue of Asian Ethnology titled “Intangible Cultural Heritage in Asia: Traditions in Transition.”Qiaoyun Zhang received her PhD in anthropology from Tulane University and is Assistant Professor at Beijing Normal University-Hong Kong Baptist University United International College, China. Her research interests include risk and culture, post-disaster recovery of local communities, and ethnic relations in China. She has published more than 10 research articles in journals including the Journal of Contemporary China, Asian Ethnology, and China Information.