Anthropology Through a Double Lens: Public and Personal Worlds in Human Theory

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments Two decades of research and thought have gone into this book. No one who publishes academic work can entertain the delusion of having more than a smidgen of originality. It is impossible to acknowledge the contributions of so many people to ideas so long in development. I am deeply grateful. I do wish to thank by name those who kindly agreed to comment on the introduction: Stephen Collier, Roy D'Andrade, Per Gjerde, Anna Mansson McGinty, Steve Parish, Hugh Raffles, Bill Shaw, and Carolyn Martin Shaw. Two anonymous reviewers for the University of Pennsylvania Press offered evaluations of the entire manuscript. Reading does not always mean agreeing. I found criticisms and suggestions (and there were a lot!) illuminating and regret that I could not figure out how to respond adequately to all of them. Thanks also to Bregje van Eekelen for helping prepare the manuscript and to my irrepressible students and colleagues at the University ofCalifornia, Santa Cruz, who have not hesitated to challenge me when I have gone off the deep end (or even before) and have kept me honest. Finally, thanks to Dale Berger for thirty years of conversations that contributed in subtle ways to this work and to Lynn, ever skeptical of academic cant, who wisely drilled it into my head that "people are not turnips." Sometime in the late 1980s, when I was a brand new assistant professor at UCSC, David Schneider cast me a nugget of practical advice from the other end ofan anthropological career: "Publish now; retract later." If you wait to speak until you are sure what you are talking about, you will never say anything. This book is a record of my ongoing efforts to knit together a credible approach to questions of meaning and general human theory. The task is formidable and, of course, conclusions are provisional. Earlier versions ofportions of this text have been previously published as follows: "Do Japanese Brazilians Exist?" in Searching for Home Abroad, edited by Jeffrey Lesser, 201-14 (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2003). 236 Acknowledgments Copyright© Duke University Press; reprinted by permission of the publisher. "Has Culture Theory Lost Its Minds?," Ethos 22 (3) (1994): 284-315. Copyright © American Anthropological Association. "The Hegemony of Discontent," American Ethnologist 20 (1) (1993): 3-24. Copyright ©American Anthropological Association. "Identity," in A Companion to Psychological Anthropology: Modernity and Psychocultural Change, edited by Conerly Casey and Robert B. Edgerton (Malden, Mass.: Blackwell, 2005). "The Identity Path ofEduardo Mori," in History in Person: Enduring Struggles , Contentious Practice, Intimate Identities, edited by Dorothy C. Holland and Jean Lave, 217-44 (Santa Fe, N.M.: School of American Research Press, 2001). Copyright© School of American Research, Santa Fe; reprinted by permission of the publisher. "Missing Persons: Methodological Notes on Japanese-Brazilian Identities ," Estudios Interdisciplinarios de America Latina (Tel Aviv) 12 (1) (2001): 9-24. Copyright © Estudios Interdisciplinarios de America Latina y el Caribe. "Wild Power in Post-Military Brazil," in Crime's Power: Anthropologists and the Ethnography of Crime, edited by Philip C. Parnell and Stephanie C. Kane (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003), pp. 99-124. Copyright© Philip C. Parnell and Stephanie C. Kane, reprinted by permission of Palgrave Macmillan. ...