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Acknowledgments This book is the product of considerable hard work by numerous individuals. Without their assistance this project would have been far more difficult and substantially less rewarding. Our first debt goes to the anthropologists who contributed to Editing Eden. These accomplished scholars greeted our proposal enthusiastically, and they made this book what it is through the quality of their work and their intellectual commitment. The common themes that emerge in these pages are not a product of chance, but of an engagement among the contributors that began at a panel session at the Latin American Studies Association conference in San Juan, Puerto Rico, in 2006. We are also most appreciative of the editors at the University of Nebraska Press. Matthew Bokovoy, in his role as the acquisitions editor for the press’s indigenous studies list, and Elisabeth Chretien, as the associate acquisitions editor, have been supportive of this project from its inception. They skillfully guided us through the different stages of manuscript preparation and were most patient as deadlines were stretched. Jessica Marcotte and Ashley Haughton, both undergraduate stu- x acknowledgments dents at the University of Lethbridge, worked tirelessly on proofreading and formatting the text, and this work benefited from their close reading and attention to detail. Andrea Cuéllar, from the Department of Anthropology at the University of Lethbridge, took considerable time away from her research and teaching demands to translate the chapter by Margarita Chaves from Spanish to English. Finally, each of the authors owes a considerable intellectual debt to the people with whom we do our research. It is only with the collaboration of many friends, colleagues, and acquaintances in the Amazon region that we can feel any confidence in “editing” the representations of this oft-imagined place. ...