Ethnoquest

To paraphrase a catchy phrase from Adventures in Fugawiland, EthnoQuest has been years in the making (Price and Gebauer 1996:iii, Mayfield Publishing Company). We began with a germ of an idea in 1996 and have worked together as a team throughout the development and production of this program. A project of this scope and complexity requires the commitment, confidence, and support of many people beyond the core team. Initial support for the program (both moral and financial) came from Dr. Rowena Santiago, Director of the Teaching Resource Center at California State University at San Bernardino. Support by that center has continued throughout this project, also under the interim direction of Dr. Josephine Mendoza in 1998-99. Early on, as we stumbled around in uncharted territory, it was Dr. Gerard L. Hanley and Jan Boucher of the California State University Long Beach Center for Usability Design in Assessment (CUDA), who steered us in a productive and workable direction. We owe them a strong debt of gratitude for helping us launch this project. CUDA continues to provide us with usability assessment and advice. Major funding for this project has been provided by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, an independent federal agency (grant # ED-21414-99); we are especially grateful for the very positive support and advice from Judy Jeffery Howard, Jerri Shepherd, and Ralph Canevali of the NEH. Dr. Louis Fernandez, Provost of CSUSB, Dr. John Conley, Dean of the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences at CSUSB, and Michael Ross, Director of Academic Computing and Media, kept the project afloat when we really needed the help. We are truly grateful to them for their strong support, good humor, and generosity. Dr. Fernandez also offered his theatrical skills as Samuel Pescadero in the program, as did Michael Ross in the role of Rambn Caballero. The search for funds is an ever-present issue and we appreciate the efforts of Lisa Jolly of the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences at CSUSB. Also we are forever appreciative of the good-humored support and ready advice from Stan Stanley of the CSUSB Foundation. We also are indebted to Dr. Russell J. Barber and Dr. Peter T. Robertshaw, successive chairs of the Department of Anthropology at CSUSB. Dr. Barber provided us with valuable feedback, and Dr. Robertshaw became involved as the irrepressible Bronislaw Edmund Radcliffe-Pritchard (a name of his coinage). We also received support from Dr. Julius Kaplan and Dr. Keith Johnson of the CSUSB Office of Graduate Studies and Faculty Development/Research & Sponsored Programs, and from Dr. Susan Cooper and Michael Ross, successive Directors of the CSUSB Department of Academic Computing and Media. Further valuable advice and support were provided by Dr. James Pierson of the CSUSB Department of Anthropology, Dr. Daniel Whitaker of the CSUSB Foreign Languages Department, and Dr. Alan Sandstrom of the Indiana University - Purdue University Fort Wayne Anthropology Department. Dr. Sandstrom also provided us with some of the background photographs. Additionally we express our appreciation to Kim Turpin, Director of the Asistencia Mission in Redlands, California, for her willingness and flexibility in allowing us to photograph at that site. The images on the sidebar are our creation with the exception of the Wise Man, who is adapted from the Codex Mendoza (Frances F. Berdan and Patricia Rieff Anawalt, eds. 1992: University of California Press, volume 4, folio 61 r). We are particularly indebted to Nancy E. Roberts, Publisher at Prentice-Hall. Her enthusiastic and energetic support of this project has been of inestimable value. Edwin Mercado programmed games 5 and 6, and we are especially grateful for his enthusiastic and timely commitment to this project. We also greatly appreciate the facilitating role played by Steve Shelton. Several student assistants have been involved with the project.Berdan, Frances F. is the author of 'Ethnoquest' with ISBN 9780130973603 and ISBN 0130973602.