This work would have not been possible without the help of many people and institutions. I acknowledge the support of the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, the Graduate College and the Department of Anthropology al the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, the Nelle M. Signor Foundation, the Tinker Foundation, the Fulbright Foundation, and the Illinois Program of Research in the Humanities (IPRH), which provided funds that ...