Voices from the Global Margin: Confronting Poverty and Inventing New Lives in the Andes

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments I have many people to thank. The people of San Pedro and San José, and especially those described in this book, occupy first place. Not only have they shared their lives with me, but I have also learned about my own as I have been with them. Yvonne Gavre, a volunteer in the Peace Corps in the 1960s, oriented me to Ayacucho and provided me with warmth and housing. I am grateful to her and to Kate Milner Wright and Peter Wright, as well as to my brother Charles Mitchell (who lived with me for a period in the 1960s), for creating a welcome community in Ayacucho. Daphna Mitchell, my former wife, accompaniedmetoAyacuchoin1973and1974 ;shecontinuestobeafriend and to provide encouragement and intellectual support. The Monmouth University Grants and Sabbaticals Committee, the Freed Foundation, and the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research have funded recent research, while the Foreign Area Fellowship Program, National Institute for the Humanities Summer Stipend, the National Science Foundation, Fulbright Hays, and Monmouth University supported earlier investigations. Wilton Martínez assisted me in Peru in 1983, and Carla Tamagno in1997.MycolleaguesatMonmouth,ofcourse,havebeenaconstant sourceofencouragementandintellectualvigor;theuniversitylibrarians , especially Linda Silverstein, helped provide the materials that made the book possible. I am particularly grateful to Carol FelsteinVignet and to Gil Podorson and Myra Podorson and to the many other people who encouraged me to put more of myself in the book and who have read and commented on the manuscript. It has been especially delightful to deal with the critiques of my sons Sean, a colleague anthropologist, and Nicholas, a consummate writer. My siblings Cathleen, Charles, and Richard Mitchell have encouraged me throughout my career; my brother Edward Mitchell reviewed the manuscript, and his concern for social justice has been an inspiration. Discussions with Barbara Price, Constance Sutton, Antonio Lauria, and Sean Mitchell have contributed greatly to my intellectual development. Conversations with Dean Arnold about artisan production, irrigation, and ecology during our early field collaboration created an important synergy that improved my intellectual understanding of the Andes. I am especially grateful to him for spurring my interest in Andean ecology and for commenting on Chapters 3 and 4. Rick Vecchio reviewed Chapter 9 and has provided me with important information and perspectives gleaned as a newspaper correspondent stationed in Lima. Shari Friedman, George Ann Potter, and Eleanor Swanson commented on the entire manuscript; Leslie Fields, the Introduction and Chapter 9; Sharry Galloway, on Chapter 6; Yvonne Gavre, Chapters 1–3; Leslie Gill, a section of Chapter 6; Charles Harmon, Chapter 1; Jim Lewis, Chapter 8; Edward Mitchell, Jr., Chapter 1; Gloria Rudolf, Chapters 2 and 9; Diana Sharpe, Chapter 9; and Johanna Foster, Nancy Mezey, Karen Schmeltzkopf, Constance Sutton, Francis Trotman, and Katie Parkin provided invaluable comments on my discussion of gender in Chapter 2. Priscilla Gac-Artigas checked some translations , and José Oriundo helped translate difficult passages throughout the book. Lola Campoy Felices reviewed my Spanish orthography . Barbara Price, my good friend and colleague, has commented on the manuscript twice, providing theoretical insights and editorial advice that aided the book’s development considerably. Jane Freed has assisted with my research over the years and provided most of the statistical work for my 1983 research. She also has edited my manuscripts, including this one, and has taught me much. As the holder of the Freed Foundation Chair in the Social Sciences, I have been provided time and other resources needed for research and writing. I would not have been able to complete the book without that assistance, for which I am most grateful. My assistant, Jo Ann Aiton, has not only entered my near-indecipherable script into the computer, but has also commented on the manuscript and ferreted out obscure reference materials. My step-daughter, Valerie Harris, transformed my color photographs into black-and-white prints and, in the process, improved their quality considerably. Peruvian colleagues, especially Luis Millones and Teófilo Altamirano, have been consistent sources of advice and inspiration. JuneNashandOrinStarnprovidedcrucialsuggestionsforthemanuscript . I am grateful to Theresa May at the University of Texas Press x VOICES FROM THE GLOBAL MARGIN for her support and encouragement and to Kathy Bork for her editing , which helped clean up errors and improve the clarity of my language. My thanks to everyone, but especially to my wife, Barbara Jaye, who as colleague and spouse has understood the isolation required to complete a book, has spurred my growth as a writer, and has...