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Acknowledgments
Victor H. Mair would like to thank Ta Duc, Frank Proschan, Christopher L. C. E. Witcombe, Michele Thompson, William C. Hannas, Margaret Barnhill Bodemer, Eric Henry, Stephen O’Harrow, Tran K. Hoai, Kate Baldanza, Le Xuan Khoa, Olga Dror, Boris Riftin, Anne Behnke Kinney, Elfriede R. Knauer, Paul Rakita Goldin, John Colarusso, Joseph Farrell, Ralph Rosen, Susan Naquin, Jiajia Wang, Selena (Shen) Wang, Thomas L. Mair, and J. P. Mallory; he would also like to express his gratitude to the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study (Uppsala) for providing him a most congenial home in which to work on our book, both in 2004 and in 2008.
We thank Joe Kenny for allowing us to publish his photograph of the Kiltinan Sheela na gig, and Starr Goode for giving us permission to publish her photograph of the Moate Sheela na gig. We thank Joan Marler for her permissions, as literary