On Global and Local Agents and the Social Making of Transnational Identities and Related Agendas in “Latin” America

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Notes

This article is a revised version of a paper originally prepared for the 1993 Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association (AAA) and later expanded for its presentation at the Wenner‐Gren symposium, ‘Transnational‐ism, Nation‐State Building and Culture” held in 1994 in Mijas, Spain. I am thankful for the Wenner‐Gren Foundation for the invitation to the conference, to the CDCH of the Universidad Central de Venezuela for its support for research and for participation in the AAA annual meeting, and to Jessamyn Jackson for her editorial assistance with the English of those former versions of the article. I am also grateful for the comments made on those former versions by Richard Adams, Xavier Albó, Linda Basch, Jeremy Beckett, Olivia Cadaval, Pía Córdova, Anne Deruyttere, Juan Flores, Néstor García Canclini, Lawrence Grossberg, Richard Handler, Jessamyn Jackson, Michael Kearney, Roy Bryce Laporte, Alberto Moreiras, Cristina Szanton Blanc, Kay Warren, Armstrong Wiggins, Brakette Williams, and George Yúdice, as well as for’ bibliographies and documents provided by some of the above and by Shelton Davis, Edward Hammond, Donna Lee Van Cott, and Jorge Uquillas. I am also thankful to the three anonymous reviewers of Identities for their valuable comments, and especially to the journal editor, Nina Glick Schiller, for her inestimable suggestions in the preparation of the present version. Of course, I am the only one responsible for the interpretations and mistakes made in this article.