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Acknowledgments In the course of writing this book I have accumulated many debts to institutions and individuals which I would like here to acknowledge—as well as others along the way whose names are lost in failing memory or disorganized notes. The original sixty-page version of the “Black Box” essay/monograph was drafted in the early months of 1998, while I was at the Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Although the bulk of my scholarly energy in the next seven years was devoted to other projects, including several articles published in the History of Anthropology series, the collected essays included in Delimiting Anthropology, and an abandoned project on Anne Roe’s anthropologists, as well as research on Clyde Kluckhohn (see p. 139 above), by 2005 I had managed to create a 140-page version of the “Black Box.” What I have called the “penultimate version,” however, was developed during my tenure as a Mellon Foundation Emeritus Fellow (2005–8); the final version printed here includes substantial emendations and additions prompted by Ira Bashkow (see pp. 184–85). Prior to and since then, my work has been supported by the Lichtstern Fund of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Chicago and by members of its administrative staff, including especially Anne Ch’ien. Along the way I also had a series of research assistants, including Kevin Caffrey, Byron Hamann, Tal Liron, Saul Thomas, Kate Goldfarb, and most recently Nicolas Harkness, Benjamin White, Debora Heard, and Yaqub Hilal—as well as others acknowledged in previous publications. Although in writing it I relied heavily on my own memories and manuscripts of the period, I was able to take advantage of ten interviews taped by Ira Bashkow and Matti Bunzl, as well as those conducted by Lisa Rubens of the Bancroft Library at Berkeley. For specific memory assistance, I would also like to thank Leonard Ragozin for responding to my inquiry about the “Victory Cantata” he and Curtis Davis wrote for the 1945 graduating class of the Horace Mann–Lincoln School; Steve Wechsler (now Victor Grossman) for making available a draft of his fascinating biographical reminiscences (see Grossman 2003); my long-time friend Sheldon Rothblatt, with whom I carried on extensive correspondence in the later 1960s; and the late Dell Hymes, whose career touched mine at many points. More recently, I have benefited greatly from discussions 217 218 Acknowledgments of the problems of autobiographical memory with my late brother Myron, as well as from his memories of specific events in our lives. Obviously, the book would not have been possible without my interactions over the last four decades with colleagues in the Department of Anthropology of the University of Chicago, including Robert McCormick Adams, Barney Cohn, Jean and John Comaroff, Jim Fernandez, Raymond Fogelson, Paul Friedrich, John Kelly, Joseph Masco, Marshall Sahlins, David Schneider, Michael Silverstein, and Raymond Smith. So, also, it has benefited from discussions with Chicago historians of the human sciences, including especially Peter Novick and Robert Richards (who has also served as computer consultant on demand). Although most of my earlier debts to colleagues at Berkeley are evident in the text, I should specifically single out Larry Levine, Henry May, Sheldon Rothblatt, Irv Scheiner, Carl Schorske, Kenneth Stampp, and Reginald Zelnik. I should also thank again all those who assisted my research in specific projects mentioned in this book and who were acknowledged therein—as well as others along the way whose names are lost in failing memory or disorganized notes. In addition to those who contributed to the research process, I wish to thank those who read and commented on various drafts, or portions thereof, including Ira Bashkow, Debora Heard, Murray Murphey, Barbara Rosenkrantz, Sam Schweber, Betty Steinberg, Connie Sutton, and Nikki Keddie—as well as my children: Susan Stocking Baltrushes, Rebecca Stocking, Rachel Louise Stocking, Melissa Stocking Robinson, and Thomas Shepard Stocking. If it were not for Richard Handler’s efforts in keeping the History of Anthropology series going since he took over as editor, this book (as well as several others of unusual length) might not have been published in its present form, to which he contributed several close readings along the way. Given the role that my medical history has played in the writing of this book, it seems appropriate to mention some of the doctors who have helped me most: Martin Gorbien who initially diagnosed my colon cancer in 1995; Philip Dobrin who provided...