Coyote Anthropology

Acknowledgments

acknowledgments Most of us are products of social interactions and meaningful exchanges that have become so much parts of our reality that we could not isolate them even if we tried. The original Coyote anthropologist was Eugene N. Anderson, a much better poet than I, whom I met in Theodore Morrison’s composition class at Harvard. Erika, Jonathan , Wendi, and Graham (a native born Texan) help to round out the coyote part of the legacy, as, I suspect, does Carlos Castaneda. On his side of the ledger there are just simply too many, but honor demands that we begin with teachers and colleagues like David M. Schneider, Vic and Edie Turner, Fred Eggan, J. Christopher Crocker, George Mentore, Richard Handler, Gary Dunham, and T. S. Harvey . Then we have the Originals, or creator-heroes of the Castaneda course itself, like Nancy Ammerman Arnest, Douglas Sean Elfers (who made the supreme sacrifice), Matt Edwards, Rob Jackson, the Nagual Andrew Mersen, Aubrey Gilbert, Erika Jacobson, Virginia Busby, Justin Shaffner, Tatiana Tchoudakova, Yana Chertihin, Wairimu Mburathi (plus an attending salient of courageous Kikuyu warriors from Kenya), Kara Frederick, Cameron Suwijn (“The Fast Gun of Yaxchilan”), the Dreaming Nagual Tiffany Luck, Rowan Webster, and Adam Disbrow. The list could go on and on (and it does), but to avoid the contumely of Doug Elfers’s favorite appellation for me, “The Nagual Inventory,” I need to break off and acknowledge some of the others of the Warriors’ Party, Liz Stassinos, Meagan Shaw, Hannah Trible, Tara Thompson, Dawn M. Hayes, Herb Rice, and Yale Landsberg, who have made the Passage Worthwhile. coyote anthropology ...