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ANTH 101 PACK: You get: (1) access to Backers-only blog, where you can ask questions, answer -my- questions, and make suggestions about Mn3; and (2) I tell my daughter stories about her teddy bear, Fuzzy, in which he teams up with dragons to fight evil giant octopuses, herd stegosauruses, or battle luchadores in space. I'll keep up the tradition while I'm away, drawing her a series of picture books and mailing them home. You'll share in our tradition, receiving digital copies of the picture books. Check out the concept art in the project description.

1st YEAR FIELD SCHOOL STUDENT PACK: You get everything from the Anth 101 Pack, plus: (1) a beautiful, high resolution, digital album of my best photos from Dominica, including stories about each photo; and (2) your name in the acknowledgments of the PDF version of the book.

2nd YEAR FIELD SCHOOL STUDENT PACK: You get everything from the 1st Year Field School Student Pack, plus: (1) the zero-th PDF edition of Mn3, the book, upon its release; and (2) when I return from Dominica, I will snail mail you a random page copied from my field research log (with names and locations withheld to protect the innocent, of course).

FIELD ASSISTANT PACK: You get everything from the 1st Year Field School Student Pack, plus: (1) a zero-th edition physical copy of Mn3, the book, upon its release; and (2) a CD copy of "Salvation for Ordinary People," the latest album from Buffalo Death Beam, an awesome Washington state band that is "an eclectic mix of modern, folk-inspired melodies with eerily beautiful harmonies," and has been called the "best kept secret in the Palouse." What's better, their drummer is another anthropologist, who does archaeology in the Central African Republic.

FAVORITE FIELD ASSISTANT PACK: You get everything from the Field Assistant Pack, plus: (1) a pair of tickets to "A Guide to Visitors," a bimonthly, unscripted, live performance of real stories around a different theme for each performance (A Guide to Visitors is held in Seattle, to which travel is not included); (2) an individual or family name of your choice in the acknowledgments of the physical version of the book.

FAVORITE FIELD STUDENT PACK: You get everything from the 1st Year Field School Student Pack, plus a zero-th edition physical copy of Mn3, the book, upon its release.

LEAD FIELD ASSISTANT PACK: You get everything from the Field Assistant Pack, plus: (1) your physical copy of the book is signed with a personal message; (2) an individual or family name of your choice will appear the acknowledgments of the physical book; and (3) I'll send you a sketch of Fuzzy, looking the pinnacle of badassitude, drawn on an index card.

MY n OF ? PACK: You get everything from the Lead Field Assistant Pack, plus: (1) get advertised in the sponsor links banner at the bottom of the landing page on the My n of 3 website (www.mynof3.com), the size of your spot proportional to your relative contribution; and (2) I will write a Dr. Seussian rhyme about a topic of your choice. Don't believe in my Seussian skillz? Check out the Seussian rhyme link at the bottom of the Mn3 project description.

"WOW. THANKS, DUDE." PACK: For your fifty hard-earned dollars, you get everything from the My n of ? Pack, plus I will personally draw AND color you (filling an 8 1/2 x 11 in. piece of paper) a picture of Fuzzy, my daughter's teddy bear, doing something awesome, like riding a Tyrannosauraus Rex with laser beams coming out of its eyes, or commanding a legion of robot sharks against hordes of evil mutant (and giant) octopodes. I can't guarantee you that my daughter won't also scribble some color on it. But I -can- guarantee you that she will. And I am not sh*tting you.