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Acknowledgments The chapters in this book were written in 1999 and 2000 in preparation for the international conference “Comparative Arawakan Histories: Rethinking Language Family and Culture Area in Amazonia,” organized by Fernando Santos-Granero and Jonathan D.Hill.The conference took place May 24– 26, 2000, at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) in Panama City, Panama, and was sponsored by the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute and the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research. Fifteen specialists on Arawak-speaking peoples—twelve ethnologists, two archaeologists , and one linguist—attended the conference.Aside from the two organizers, participants included Peter Gow, Michael Heckenberger, Søren Hvalkof, Olga Linares, Alan Passes, Donald Pollock, France-Marie RenardCasevitz ,Dan Rosengren,Sidney da Silva Facundes,HanneVeber,SilviaVidal, Neil Whitehead, Robin Wright, and Alberta Zucchi. Two other specialists, Alexandra Aikhenvald and Nicolas Journet, were invited to attend the conference but unfortunately had to withdraw during the planning stages. STRI provided funds allowing Jonathan Hill to return to Panama City in late September 2000, where he and Fernando Santos-Granero completed initial stages of editing the revised conference papers and completed a draft of the introductory essay.We are very grateful to the Wenner-Gren Foundation , STRI, and all the individuals named above for their support and effort, without which neither the conference nor this book would have been possible .However,the information and interpretations contained in this book are those of the editors and individual authors and not those of the organizations acknowledged above. 00.FM.i-x/H&S 6/4/02, 10:10 AM 7 00.FM.i-x/H&S 6/4/02, 10:10 AM 8 [3.141.27.244] Project MUSE (2024-04-17 19:51 GMT) Comparative Arawakan Histories 00.FM.i-x/H&S 6/4/02, 10:10 AM 9 00.FM.i-x/H&S 6/4/02, 10:10 AM 10 ...