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introduction x acknowledgments With appreciation and thanks the editors of this volume recognize the two readers and reviewers of this work for both their perseverance and their very helpful comments: Randolph Widmer of the University of Houston and Virginia Fields of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. David Dye of the University of Memphis has contributed many of the photographs. Without David’s contribution we would be unable to illustrate many of our iconographic conclusions. The Peabody Museum Press, Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, has also graciously granted permission for the use of copyrighted material. We also acknowledge the support and aid of the Lannan Foundation of Santa Fe, New Mexico; the dean of Liberal Arts at Texas State University– San Marcos, Ann Marie Ellis; and the faculty and staff of the Anthropology Department at Texas State University–San Marcos and the Center for the Study of the Arts and Symbolism of Ancient America (casaa), which is housed in this department. Finally, neither the conferences that generate the intellectual ideas highlighted in this volume nor the volume itself would be possible without the organizational skills of Duncan McKinnon and Johann Sawyer, to whom we also convey our thanks and appreciation. ...

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