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Dinner with a Cannibal is the
culmination of seven years of fascinating research. Throughout, and prior to,
those years of investigation, there were friends and professionals who
encouraged me, aided me, guided me, questioned me and stood by with words of
knowledge and wisdom.
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I wish to thank:
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Ann Evans Berthoff, professor emerita, University
of Massachusetts, Boston, who reviewed and edited my work as chapters took
form. Her critical eye, humor, enthusiasm and encouragement were invaluable. On
the day I met her she read the chapter entitled "Dinner with a Cannibal".
Looking up she said, "This is the title of your book." And so it is.
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Christy G. Turner II, Regents Professor of
Anthropology, Arizona State University, author of Man Corn, and leading
researcher on the subject of cannibalism, provided in-depth editing and
information. His help, advice and knowledge are greatly appreciated.
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Dr. Garniss Curtis, professor emeritus of
geology, University of California, Berkeley, for long hours of reading, his
dedication to accuracy, his integrity and, most of all, for his friendship over
the course of many years.
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Professor Ralph Holloway, Department of
Anthropology, Columbia University, for his constant encouragement and for
keeping me on track and never letting me give up.
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Dr. Alan J. Almquist, California State
University, Hayward, Department of Anthropology, author and former grants and
programs officer for the L.S.B. Leakey Foundation, provided substantive editing
and relevant comments — I owe him dinner.
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Others who made a difference are the
following professors, authors, professionals and mentors in the fields of
paleoanthropology, archaeology, gastronomy, primatology, brain research,
psychiatry, geology, genetics, law, particle physics and religion: John Morgan
Allman, Juan Luis Arsuaga, Berhane Asfaw, Jean Auel, Carol Beckwith, Ron J.
Clarke, Anna Belfer- Cohen, Leigh Bienen, Robert Bloominshiem, C.K. Brain,
Alison Brooks, Larry Burton, Frank Brown, Daniel Buxhoeveden, Basil Cooke, John
Costello, Eric Delson, Harold Dibble, Jan Fawcet, Angela Fisher, Jacob H. Fox,
Birute M.F. Galdikas, Jane Goodall, Lance Grande, Jack Harris, Henry
Harpending, Erima Henare, Kevin D. Hunt, Donald C. Johanson, Jean Joho, Alan
Kahn, Leon Lederman, Rena Lederman, Roger Lewin, Shirley Lindenbaum, Alan Mann,
Ian McDougall, William McGrew, James F. O’Connell, Yoel Rak, Rudy Raff, William
Rice, Kathy Schick, Sileshi Semaw, Gabino Sotelino, Dietrich Stout, Carl
Swisher, Ian Tattersall, Alan Thorne, Phillip Tobias, Nicholas Toth, Jill Van
Cleave, Paola Villa, Tim White, Hans Willimann, Milford Wolpoff and John
Yellen.
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And in remembrance: J. Desmond Clark,
Betty Baume Clark, F. Clark Howell and Raymond Dart.
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To Joan Travis, without whom I could have never
entered into the inner sanctum of paleoanthropology, I owe an unpayable debt of
gratitude.
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And to my Australian friend, Alex Harris, who, in
1998, gave me the book Cannibals, Cows & the CJD Catastrophe, which
inspired the formulation of a hypothesis concerning the demise of the
Neanderthals, which, in turn, prompted research into the topic of cannibalism
that led to the writing of this book — a very large thank you indeed.
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I am also indebted to Susan Heffron and Gretchen
Notzold of the Teton County, Wyoming branch library in Alta, who pulled through
with out-of-print volumes; Michael Harrison and Therry Frey for loaning me
their unique volumes on New Guinea; Dr. Michael Huckman for allowing me time
with his prized volumes, John McCarter for use of the Field Museum’s library;
and David Coolidge for sending me the book Flyboys by James Bradley.
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Last, but never least, go hugs to my husband, Dr.
Leo M. Henikoff, a harsh, unflagging editor who stood by — or went fishing —
through more than seven years of research, travel and writing . . . even
though, during the first two years of this project, he referred to me as "The
Ghoul," and in the same breath, asked when dinner would be ready.
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And of course, there is my publisher, Jeffrey
Goldman, whose excitement, talents and dedication to the publication of Dinner
with a Cannibal proved to be prodigious.
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