Objects and Objections of Ethnography

Acknowledgments

a c k n o w l e d g m e n t s Many people contributed to these essays. They are named in each piece but I want to reiterate my gratitude. I want to thank Michael Meeker, Rosalind Morris, and Danilyn Rutherford for their help with the book as a whole. As usual or, I dare to say, ‘‘as always,’’ I am happily indebted to Anne Berger. Helen Tartar has excellent judgment in editorial matters. In this case, her opinions were infallibly on the mark. I much benefited. I dedicate this collection to Saranya Sweet Siegel-Berger, the nature of whose help I cannot specify, all the while knowing it to be essential. The Cornell Southeast Asia Program and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation helped fund my work. I thank them very much. 177 ...