Secrecy and Insurgency: Socialities and Knowledge Practices in Guatemala

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments The research presented in this book benefited from the generous support offered by the Society for Latin Ameri­can Studies, the University of Lon­don Central Research Fund, and the Lon­ don School of Economics. Reflections on the field of performativity theory were assisted by a jointly awarded research grant from the British Academy. Henrietta L. Moore, Sylvia Chant, Rachel Sieder, and Nigel Rapport commented on the text at different stages. I am grateful for their suggestions. I would like to thank Henrietta L. Moore in particular for her unwavering support over the years. Special thanks also to Joseph B. Powell for expert editorial guidance and encouragement and to two anonymous readers for their painstakingly detailed reading of the manuscript. Chapter 3 was greatly enriched by the generous comments offered by Sarah Pinto; I am grateful for her thoughtful engagement with my arguments. The map of Petén was drawn by Mina Moshkeri. Thanks also to Dan Waterman, Crissie Johnson, Carol Connell, Latasha Watters, Kathy Cummins, Erin Bradley Dangar, and Susan Harris at the University of Alabama Press for editorial, design, and indexing support. I acknowledge the support offered over many years by Italo Posocco, Anna Spedicato, Paolo Spedicato, Laura Posocco, Marco Posocco, Romana Molinari, Elio Giammarioli, Simon Phillips, Ellen Abdulla, Lilach Hazan, JongMi Kim, Pam Brown, and, most recently, Anabeatriz Alarcón Posocco. My greatest debt is to many individuals and communities in Guatemala. I hope that the book may go some way toward reciprocating their kindness. Brief sections of Chapter 2 and Chapter 6—short ethnographic fragments, without arguments—are excerpted from Posocco, Silvia (2008), “Zon­ ing: Environmental Cosmopolitics in and around the Maya Biosphere Reserve, Petén, Guatemala,” Nature and Culture, Vol. 3, No. 2: 206–24, doi: 10.3167/ nc.2008.030204, and Posocco, Silvia (2011), “Ethnography and Incommensurability in the Aftermath of Insurgency,” Cultural Dynamics, Vol. 23, No. 1: 57–72, respectively. They are reproduced here with kind permission of the publishers. ...