Anke Birkenmaier - The Specter of Races: Latin American Anthropology and Literature Between the Wars

Acknowledgments

THIS PROJECT took shape over a number of years, and many institutions and people have assisted me generously with aspects of my research and thought process.

In Havana, I want to thank Araceli Garca Carranza and Ileana Ortega at the Biblioteca Nacional Jos Mart, who guided my search through Fernando Ortizs archive, as well as Jos Doll Prez. At the Instituto de Literatura y Lingustica, Cira Romero made the impossible possible and introduced me to the Cuban scholars Sergio Valds Bernal and Patricia Motorola and to Jos A. Matos Arvalos, from the Fernando Ortiz Foundation. In Paris, I was fortunate to have office space at Reid Hall, with the wonderful Mihaela Bacou. In Paris, too, I consulted the Paul Rivet Archive at the Musum dHistoire Naturelle and at the Bibliothque du Muse de lHomme, which at that point had closed already, and where I was assisted by Adrien Mattatia. Im particularly grateful to Christine Laurire, now at the CNRS, for her expertise and generous orientation in all matters concerning Paul Rivet. At the Laboratoire dAnthropologie Sociale I am grateful for having been able to consult the Fonds Alfred Mtraux and even to have had a brief conversation with Claude Lvi-Strauss. In Mexico at the Colegio de Mxico, Clara E. Lida and Andrs Lira shared their knowledge on anthropology, literature, and European exiles in Mexico, and Adolfo Castan took time to talk about Roger Caillois. Sibylle Fischer introduced me to Jean Casimir, who opened doors for me in Port-au-Prince in 2008; in Haiti I also thank Rachelle Doucet, Suze Mathieu, and Rachelle Beauvoir-Dominique and the staff of the Bibliothque Haitienne des Frres de linstruction chrtienne and at the Petit Seminaire of the Collge Saint-Martial for letting me consult their collection. My Brazilianist colleagues at Indiana University, Darlene Sadlier and Luciana Namorato, gave me important feedback and recommended additional bibliographic works. Finally, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in New York offered all the resources that I had not been able to find in Haiti, Cuba, or Brazil, and it has been a privilege to work there.

My research travels were made possible by three generous field research grants from the Institute of Latin American Studies at Columbia University, under the directorship of Thomas Trebat and then Pablo Piccato. Much of the writing and rewriting was done during junior faculty leaves from Columbia University and from Indiana University.

Im grateful for conversations with colleagues at Columbia University, in particular Vincent Debaene, Maja Horn, Alfred MacAdam, Gustavo Prez Firmat, Pablo Piccato, and Alessandra Russo, and at Indiana University with Deborah Cohn, Melissa Dinverno, Patrick Dove, Lessie Joe Frazier, Ilana Gershon, Edgar Illas, Eden Medina, Alejandro Mejas-Lpez, Kate Myers, John Nieto-Philips, Estela Vieira, and Steve Wagschal. Also at Indiana University, I received assistance from my undergraduate research assistant, Rachel Colegrove, and from graduate assistants Olivia Holloway Salzano, who took care of translations from Portuguese into English, and Krista Weirich.

My friends Rubn Gallo, Jacqueline Loss, Viviane Mahieux, and Rafael Rojas listened and commented on versions of this project; Viviane in particular was a great friend in all walks of life and a patient reader of a number of chapter drafts. Parts of the project were presented at the Caribbean Studies Group of New York University, Brown University, the Universit dEtat dHati in Port-au-Prince, and the Annual Meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association in Providence, at a seminar hosted by Charlotte Rogers.

I am deeply appreciative also of the comments that I received on the entire manuscript from Emily Maguire of Northwestern University, and from two anonymous readers. They all have contributed to making this book much better, even though its flaws are, of course, still mine. I also thank my editors at the University of Virginia Press, Cathie Brettschneider and Eric Brandt, for their expertise and decisiveness, as well as Ellen Satrom and Mark Mones.

Finally, my parents in Germany and my partner, Roman, have been like rocks in my life, and I thank them for having stayed with me, all the way.

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