ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Very many people and institutions have contributed to this work. We jointly
thank colleagues and friends who have read and commented on various chap-
ters. We have benefited from the advice of Wendy Ashmore, Cathy Cameron,
Warren DeBoer, T. J. Ferguson, Kathy Fewster, Olivier Gosselain, Natalie
Kampen, Jane Kelley, David Killick, Barbara Mills, Gerry Oetelaar, Pierre
Pétrequin, Ann Stahl, Molly and Ray Thompson, Polly Wiessner, and several
of our students, notably Charles Mather and Kim Jones, and from the thought-
ful suggestions of the Press’s reviewers, Carla Sinopoli and Patty Jo Watson. We
also thank other distinguished colleagues who provided us with their CVs, and
regret that in the end constraints of space prevented us from including thumb-
nail biographies of leading practitioners of ethnoarchaeology. Many colleagues
have provided us with photographs of themselves or others “in action” that,
taken in their entirety, constitute the beginnings of a portrait gallery of histor-
ical value. They are recognized in figure captions, but we wish to thank them
here for their willingness to hunt through old files and boxes, and for looking
up details of expeditions long past. Their efforts add significantly to the book.
Gerry Newlands of the Archaeology Department, University of Calgary, has
been invaluable in the transformation of slides, prints, and files into our illus-
trations. Inasmuch as documentation of the work of the ethnoarchaeologist has
never been a priority and rarely a desideratum, he is to be especially thanked
for transforming smudged and fly-blown slides and other media into something
(at least remotely) publishable. Robin Poitras of the Geography Department
constructed elegant maps of the two hemispheres. We also wish to thank Claire
Allum, Nancy DeVore and Anthro-Photo, Irven DeVore, Carol Gifford, George
Gumerman, Frank Hole, Kathy Hubenschmidt, C. Milo McLeod, Peter and
Ama Shinnie, Matt Stolper, Bill Sumner, and Patty Jo Watson for help with
obtaining photos, and Annick Geoffroy for assistance with translation. Our
very special thanks to Christian Seignobos for allowing us to use his lively
sketch of iron smelting at Mawasl, northern Cameroon, for the front cover.
ND thanks the National Science Foundation (USA) and the Social Science
and Humanities Research Council of Canada for major support over the years
of research that has qualified him to co-author a book on ethnoarchaeology. The
University of Calgary granted him a sabbatical fellowship for the first six
months of 1999, and the Calgary Institute of the Humanities a year’s fellow-
ship beginning in September 1999. Both offered the essential resource of time

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for writing, and the latter much stimulus from successive directors, Jane Kelley
and Rosemary Ommer, and co-fellows. ND also thanks the responsible gov-
ernmental authorities of Cameroon, Nigeria, and Ghana that have permitted
him and his students to work in their countries, especially Mohammadou
Eldridge and the defunct but much regretted Cameroonian Institute of Human
Studies, and L. I. Izuakor and Musa Hambolu and the National Commission for
Museums and Monuments of Nigeria. ND’s great debt to them pales besides
that he owes to the people with and among whom he has worked as an eth-
noarchaeologist over the past 32 years, especially the Fulbe of Bé, the Mafa,
Hide, and others of the Mokolo region of northern Cameroon, and the Sukur
and their neighbors across the border in Nigeria. He pays special tribute to a
succession of assistants, Souaibou Barkindo, Isa Emmanuel Kawalde, John
Habga, Philip Emmanuel Sukur, Markus Ezra Mkarma, and Isnga Dalli Sukur,
whose contribution to this work is inestimable.
Above all, he thanks Judy Sterner, companion, wife, and colleague, dedicat-
ing to her his part in this joint enterprise.
CK thanks the National Science Foundation, the Smithsonian Institution’s
Foreign Currency Program, the City University of New York’s Research
Foundation, and the University of Arizona’s Social and Behavioral Sciences
Research Institute, for their support of research in Iran and India, and subse-
quent data analyses. She is grateful to representatives of the governments of
Iran and India who helped her obtain research permits. In India, Komal Kothari,
Vijay Verma, and, especially, Manohar Lalas, her assistant, greatly facilitated
her work. Many graduate students and colleagues first in New York City and
later in Tucson assisted in various phases of data analysis; they are identified
in the acknowledgments of her 1982 and 1997 monographs. Here, she notes her
particular indebtedness to Linda Brown, John Douglas, and Glenn Davis Stone
for help with the analysis of her Rajasthani data. Working with and learning
from villagers in pre-revolutionary Iranian Kurdistan and potters and vendors
in Rajasthan were diverse, fascinating, humbling, and formative experiences,
and CK is ever grateful for the good humor, patience, and generosity shown by
the many Iranians and Indians of whom she asked what must have seemed an
unending series of pointless or tedious questions. Their place is, truly, empty.

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