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recto runninghead | xi acknowledgments This book is based on the Evans-Pritchard lectures I delivered at All Souls College , Oxford, in fall 2004, with the title “The Structure of Loyalty in Revolutionary Macedonia.” I owe that opportunity, at least in part, to the two mentors who wrote my letters of recommendation: the late Peter Loizos, to whom this book is dedicated, and Jane Cowan. I am also indebted to the fellows, faculty, and students who attended and provided generous and constructive feedback. In particular, I would like to thank the then-Warden Professor John Davis, Professor Wendy James, Douglas Johnston, Noel Malcolm, and Dimitar Bechev for their engagement and encouragement. Commitments to other research priorities since 2004 have slowed the project but also enriched it. As a visiting fellow at the University of Connecticut Humanities Institute during 2005–2006, my primary focus was on patterns of labor migration from Ottoman Macedonia to the United States. Director Richard Brown and Associate Director Françoise Dussart nonetheless created space and impetus for reflection that allowed me to realize the central importance of long-distance circuits of travel in Macedonia’s modern history. At the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University, my involvement in research projects on U.S. democracy promotion and counterinsurgency has also generated new perspectives on the importance of flows of resources and ideas. Amid the more recent turmoil of mission restructuring and academic receivership at the institute, Director Michael Kennedy and Interim Director Carolyn Dean, in very different styles, nevertheless provided effective encouragement and support to see the project through. And the staffs at all three institutions made things run more smoothly, especially Mary Yoe at All Souls, Jo-Ann Waide at UCHI, and Deborah Healey at the Watson Institute. I have benefited from enthusiastic and critical responses to the project from undergraduates and graduate students at both the University of Connecticut and at Brown, and from colleagues at a number of conferences and xii | loyal unto death workshops. I would like to thank the students in “Anthropology and the Archive” at the University of Connecticut in Spring 2006, and in “Political Anthropology: Peasants, Tribes, Terrorists and Other Enemies of the State” at Brown University in fall 2011—in particular Matt Vining, Saskia Brechenmacher , Reuben Henriques, Julia Potter, Juan Ruiz, and Derek Sheridan—for their suggestions. Pamela Ballinger, Kristen Ghodsee, Milica Bakić-Hayden, Melissa Bokovoy, Maria Bucur, Emira Ibrahimpašić, and Mary Neuburger provided congenial company and valuable feedback on a composite version of chapters 3 and 4 presented at “Spiritualities and Secularisms in Southeastern Europe: An Interdisciplinary Workshop” at Bowdoin College in October 2009, and Nida Gelazis, Dana Ponte, John Lampe, and Dragan Ristovski posed important questions in response to a presentation drawn from chapter 6 at East European Studies at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, D.C., in February 2012. As ever, the circles of obligation extend too widely to thank individually all those colleagues who provided insight since I began working with the Ilinden archives in Skopje in the early 1990s. James Fernandez was among the first to urge me to spend more time in the world they conjured; in a slightly different vein, Gale Stokes advocated for history over metahistory. Victor Friedman’s unflagging and generous support extended all the way from shrewd graduate school advice to reading and commenting on this book’s page proofs. Jovan Donev, Toše Čepreganov, and Irena Stefoska continue to provide scholarly hospitality in Skopje, and I am grateful to Zoran Todorovski for making access tothenationalarchivessostraightforward.Ihavebenefitedfromwide-ranging discussions with and/or specific reading or writing recommendations from Peter Andreas, Omer Bartov, Ulf Brunnbauer, John Comaroff, Jane Cowan, Loring Danforth, Victor Friedman, Dragi Gjorgiev, Chip Gagnon, Drew Gilbert , Vasilis Gounaris, Hannes Grandits, Michael Herzfeld, Michael Kennedy, Kostis Kornetis, Martha Lampland, Dimitris Livanios, Catherine Lutz, Milčo Mančevski, Tchavdar Marinov, Vladimir Milčin, Marija Pandevska, Biljana Risteska, Marshall Sahlins, Philip Shashko, Ann Laura Stoler, Maria Todorova , Žarko Trajanovski, Anastas Vangeli, and Susan Woodward. Anusha Venkataraman provided invaluable research support on the text; David Manning created the maps. I am especially grateful to Svetlin Rusev for granting permission to reproduce his 1966 painting, and to Viliana Borisova and Tchavdar Marinov for making that possible. I was not able here to xii | acknowledgments ] Project MUSE (2024-04-25 17:13 GMT) recto runninghead | xiii incorporate the data and insights of two new archivally-based books on the armed struggle in early twentieth-century Macedonia; Dimitris Lithoxou’s The...

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