me or extended hospitality to me while I wrote these essays, in either the original or present versions. They include my own institution, the University of Michigan; the Deparrment of Anthropology of the University of Cambridge; the Wenner-Gren Foundation; the American Council of Learned Societies; the Guggenheim Foundation; and the East-West Center in Honolulu. I also owe special thanks to Richard Grossinger, the anthropologist and publisher who invited me to gather these essays together, and to several colleagues: Frithjof Bergmann, Ray Kelly, Robert Levy, Ellen Messer, Sherry Ortner, and Aram Yengoyan, each of whom read one or more of the essays rewritten for this volume, offering suggestions for their improvement. I have, in the main, followed their advice, but wish to exonerate them from all responsibility for the collection's flaws and shortcomings. Karen Shedlowe deciphered my handwriting brilliantly and improved my prose as she, with saintly patience, typed the manuscript. Ann, Amelia, and Gina Rappaport have, as always, been enormously supportive. Finally, I mean the volume as a whole to express my gratitude to the two great teachers to whom it is dedicated.

ROY A. RAPPAPORT