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Acknowledgments Support for writing this manuscript was generously provided by the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, Inc., under the Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowship (Gr. 7532) to whom I am most sincerely grateful. My initial training as an anthropologist was also enhanced by support from Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, Inc., and I remain indebted to the organization’s support of various phases of my life as an anthropologist. I would also like to thank Paul Robinson, Bill Martin, Njeri Bere, Owen Sichone, Maurice Amutabi, Andrea Freidus, and Aleksandar Bošković for all their comments on various parts of the manuscript . The initial proposal to seek funding for the manuscript had the good fortune of going through the keen eyes of Steve Hager whose comments are greatly appreciated. As always my family has been very supportive of the work that I do as a scholar and I wish to thank my wife and friend, Margaret, our daughters Nkatha and Gatwiri for putting up with my constant work behind the computer . I am also very lucky to have a family that is genuinely interested in my academic writing and one that gives me critical perspectives regarding some of the issues that indirectly involve them and which I touch on in this work. I am also very grateful to two anonymous reviewers commissioned by the University of Illinois Press to read my entire manuscript. Their comments have greatly shaped this manuscript. Working with staff at the University of Illinois Press has been such a great joy not only throughout the work entailed in preparing this manuscript for publication but in my earlier book published by University of Illinois Press as well. I am especially indebted to Joan xvi . acknowledgments Catapano, Angela Burton, and Copenhaver Cumpston, who have supported me through some of the intricate steps of getting my manuscript ready for publication. I am also grateful to Gayle Swanson for her careful reading and very insightful editing of the final draft of this book. I take responsibility for all ideas and positions represented in this book. ...

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