Dialogues in Cuban Archaeology

xvi / Acknowledgments
publication. Daniel Sandweiss of the University of Maine and Sean Britt of
Earthwatch Institute made substantial contributions to the discussion.
Shannon Lee Dawdy, who organized the conference events, received logistical
support from the University of Michigan’s Institute for the Humanities
and travel funds from the Rackham School of Graduate Students during
2001 –2002. Her own trip to Cuba in 1 999 that led to her friendship with
Gabino La Rosa and the idea for the symposium was supported by a Latin
American and Caribbean Studies pre-dissertation award from the University
of Michigan’s International Institute. She would not have gone to Cuba had
it not been for the buoyant advising of Rebecca Scott. In Cuba, Marcos
Rodríguez Matamoros and Lester Puntonet Toledo shared their knowledge of
Cuban archaeology and helped set a path for this project in ways of which
they are probably unaware and for which she is deeply grateful. Shannon
would also like to thank her brother, Jess Dawdy, who provided childcare in
Denver under some dif¤cult, if humorous, conditions.
The editors are grateful that all of the original symposium presenters
(Mary Jane Berman, Ramón Dacal Moure, Lourdes Domínguez, Jorge Febles,
Perry L. Gnivecki, Pedro Godo, Gabino La Rosa Corzo, Theresa Singleton,
and David Watters) agreed to submit their contributions for publication. It
was clear in the early stages of the preparation of this volume that additional
authors were needed in order to include a wider representation of Cuban archaeology,
and the decision was made then to invite several other colleagues
to contribute to this publication. The editors would like to thank these additional
contributors—Marlene Linville, César Rodríguez Arce, Jorge Ulloa
Hung, Roberto Valcárcel Rojas, and Samuel M. Wilson—for graciously accepting
our invitation to participate in this publication. More than anything
we deeply appreciate the patience, understanding, and support of all these distinguished
authors during the whole process in the preparation of this volume.
The editors also express their gratitude to Judith Knight, acquisition editor
at The University of Alabama Press, for her support of this project from the
beginning and for her patience. José Oliver, Kathleen Deagan, and an anonymous
reviewer provided valuable and important comments that strengthened
the quality of the volume. We would also like to thank Tisha Smith and
Louise Elinoff for their assistance in preparing the list of references cited and
Daniel McNaughton for ¤nal proofreading. Jill Seagard, Scienti¤c Illustrator
of the Department of Anthropology of the Field Museum of Natural History,
deserves credit for the ¤nal versions of Figures 1 .1 and 4.1 .