ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

 

 

 

My greatest debt is to friends who allowed me to publish their stories, experiences, and opinions in this book—Keith Egan, Brijen Gupta, Sewa Magba Koroma, Fiona Murphy, Neni Panourgiá, Jørgen Pedersen, McGinty Salt, and Sofka Zinovieff. I am also grateful to other friends for comments on drafts of this work—Davíd Carrasco, Charles Hallisey, Robert Desjarlais, Adam Lyons, Don Seeman, and Tyler Zoanni. Acknowledgment is also due to friends who have passed on, yet figure in the pages of this book, as in my life, as spiritual interlocutors—Peter Fisher, Peter Herbst, Pauline Jackson, Keti Ferenke Koroma, Galina Lindquist, and Richard Rorty. Lulie El-Ashry provided timely research assistance. And my sincere thanks are due to Reed Malcolm for his generous support of my work. Finally, I thank the following copyright holders for material reprinted here with their permission: Berghahn Books, Inc., for “After Understanding: A Memoir of Galina Lindquist,” in Religion, Politics and Globalization: Anthropological Approaches, ed. Dan Handelman and Galina Lindquist (New York: Berghahn, 2011), pages xv–xix; Duke University Press, for excerpts from The Palm at the End of the Mind: Relatedness, Religiosity and the Real (Duke University Press, 2009), pages 162–67, and from In Sierra Leone (Duke University Press, 2004, 2005), pages 41–48.