The Archaeology of Hybrid Material Culture

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments xiv I wish to thank all the authors and researchers for their contributions to The Archaeology of Hybrid Material Culture. They answered a call to tackle a subject that by its nature can be difficult to pin down as one thing or another and did so with a diversity of data and ideas that nonetheless provides key elements in common . I particularly send thanks to Kathleen Deagan and Stephen W. Silliman for their considered and valuable discussions of the volume, which provide important insights into a set of works spanning the globe and tens of thousands of years. I am also grateful to the volume reviewers for their important observations and suggestions. I would like to thank the directors of the Center for Archaeological Investigations , Brian Butler and Mark J. Wagner, who supported this project to completion. Thanks are due as well to those at the Center and in the Department of Anthropology who gave substantive guidance and suggestions for the volume, including Izumi Shimada, Heather Lapham, Paul Welch, and Susan Ford. Mary Lou Wilshaw-Watts deserves special praise for her efforts and patience in shepherding the volume along and improving it through her expertise and work, as do Kathleen M. Kageff, who copyedited the volume, and Linda Buhman, who designed and typeset the pages and the cover. I would also like to thank the members of the Department of Anthropology as a whole for making me feel welcome during my time in Carbondale. The graduate students who were vital to making the Twenty-Sixth Visiting Scholar Conference, and as a result this volume, happen areAylaAmadio, Meadow Campbell, Craig Kitchen, Eraina Nossa, Nate Meissner, and Robert Scott, and I thank them for their efforts. Other people at Southern Illinois University Carbondale who aided the conference and made it a success include Pat Eckert, Kim Goforth, and Kathy Lundeen. I would especially like to thank the Butler family for their gracious hosting of one of our contributors during the conference. Outside of the SIU Carbondale community, I also wish to thank Will Andrews, Bill Fowler, Roberto Gallardo, and the archaeological community in El Salvador for supporting my research that sparked the ideas leading to this volume. I also wish to thank my friends and colleagues at Tulane University and Miami University for their support during the development and creation of this project. And I thank my family for their well-wishes, aid, and support for this volume. ...