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xiii _ i would like to thank my family, my friends at Binghamton University (BU), and my housemates on Vincent Street in Binghamton, New York, for their unflagging support for many years. I would like to express my appreciation to the people at the various museums and institutions in South America where I conducted much of my research: to José Pérez Gollán, Myriam Tarragó, and Norma Pérez at the Museo Etnográfico in Buenos Aires, Argentina; to Juan Schobinger, Clara Abal de Russo, and Víctor Durán at the Universidad Nacional de Cuyo in Mendoza; to Mariano Gambier and Catalina Teresa Michieli at the Museo Arqueológico La Laja in San Juan; to Antonio Beorchia Nigris at the Centro de Investigaciones Arqueológicas de Alta Montaña in San Juan; to Luis Capurro S., Eliana Durán, and Rubén Stehberg at the Museo Nacional de Historia Natural in Santiago, Chile; to Gonzalo Ampuero Brito at the Museo Arqueológico in La Serena; to Miguel Cervellino Giannoni at the Museo Regional de Atacama in Copiapó; to Cora Moragas W. at the Museo Regional in Iquique; to Lautaro Núñez A. at the Museo Arqueológico Gustavo Le Paige in San Pedro de Atacama; to Iván Muñoz Ovalle at the Museo Arqueológico de Azapa in Arica; and to José Antonio Chávez C. at the Museo de la Universidad Nacional San Agustín in Arequipa, Peru. Part of my investigation was carried out in Europe, where I was aided by Ted Leyenaar at the Rijksmuseum voor Volkenkunde in Leiden, the Netherlands, and by Dora Janssen, who has a private collection in Belgium; I am indebted to both of them. A number of institutions and individuals contributed funds that enabled me to conduct my research. From the National Science Foundation I received a Dissertation Improvement Grant. I also was awarded a Acknowledgments xiv acknowledgments Mini-Grant by Binghamton University, a Special Travel Grant by Richard Waetjen, a Putnam-Bedayn Research Grant by the American Alpine Club, and a Grant-in-Aid of Research by Sigma Xi. Several companies donated equipment and/or lab time to my project, including the Agfa Corporation of Ridgefield Park, New Jersey; the Lifecodes Corporation of Stamford, Connecticut; and Johnson Camping of Binghamton. I am grateful to all of them for their generous support. Many people assisted me with the study, among them Larry Cartmell at the Valley View Regional Hospital in Ada, Oklahoma; William Conklin at the Textile Museum in Washington, DC; Marilyn Baker, who was working on a master’s degree at Trent University in Peterborough, Ontario; Víctor Manuel Bulacio in Catamarca, Argentina; and Ángel Cabeza Monteira at the Corporación Nacional Forestal de Chile in Santiago. Several individuals and institutions provided images that I have used to illustrate the present work. They include Sergio Kunstmann and Ernesto Albrecht at the Club Alemán Andino (DAV) in Santiago; Loren McIntyre, who worked with the National Geographic Society in Washington; the Museo Nacional de Historia Natural in Santiago; and Google Earth Pro. Justin Miller, of the Public Archaeology Facility at BU, and Marcia Focht, curator of Visual Resources at BU, helped me with the preparation of the illustrations. I laud them for their efforts. Last, though certainly not least, I would like to express my appreciation to Johan Reinhard at the Mountain Institute in Morgantown, West Virginia; to Constanza Ceruti at the Universidad Católica in Salta, Argentina; and to Grete Mostny, former director of the Museo Nacional de Historia Natural in Santiago, for inspiring me to write about human sacrifice and mountain worship in the Andes. I apologize to anyone whose name has been inadvertently omitted from my thank-you list. ...

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