The Field and the Work: Hybridity as Mantra and MethodFootnote^*

* Fieldwork in Bahia was supported by a Robert C. West Field Research Award granted by the Department of Geography and Anthropology at Louisiana State University in 2010, and by the Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Program funded in 2012 by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation as an IIE Graduate Fellowship for International Study. I am deeply grateful for many collaborators in Bahia and elsewhere in Brazil for their knowledge, contributions, and patience; Daniel Jesus dos Santos, Urano Andrade de Cerqueira, and Chefão deserve special recognition. I thank the anonymous reviewers and the editors for their thoughtful comments, which improved the article tremendously. All errors and failures in interpretation remain mine alone.

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