Ngo Landscapes in the Maya Biosphere Reserve, GuatemalaFootnote^*

* My research has been funded by the Tinker Foundation and the Fulbright Commission. Thanks are due to my dissertation adviser, Gregory Knapp, and Karl Offen of the Department of Geography, University of Texas, Austin, and Barbara Brower of Portland State University. The assistance of the editors at the Geographical Review and of the reviewers—particularly George Lovell—each of whom made insightful comments, is much appreciated. I am also grateful to the many people in the Petén who shared their time and opinions with me.

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