myself; most of these are or were my colleagues at the

Although I (and they themselves) have moved a long way from the anthropology they taught me in the 1960s, this list would not be complete without acknowledgment of the great intellectual and personal debts I owe to my teachers at the University of Amsterdam, foremost Andre Köbben, Douwe Jongmans, and Jeremy Boissevain. Bonno Thoden van Velzen was still a very young lecturer, and I a first-year student, when we were engaged in a formal teacher/student relationship at that same university. But whenever our paths crossed in later years (in Lusaka, 1972 and for the ASA work on regional cults), I have benefited from his sound judgment, inspiring discussions, and friendship; I am therefore grateful for his recent critical contributions towards the production of this volume.