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Acknowledgments
I am grateful to many people for their contributions to the shape of this book, and I take the opportunity here to offer them my sincere thanks.
As always, I offer my thanks to everyone at Cambria Press. This is my third book with Cambria; in the production of each book, I have been offered excellent editing, encouragement, and assistance in a range of ways. I am very grateful.
I want to thank my anthropology colleagues, located in different institutions across the country, for their generous input. Megan Warin and Rod Lucas from the University of Adelaide read early drafts and made helpful, insightful comments that pushed and refined my thinking. Colleagues at the University of Melbourne, particularly Mary Patterson, gave helpful feedback on spoken, seminar versions of the work. I am very grateful to all of my colleagues at the Australian National University, my home institution, who gave me such positive feedback during seminar presentations of this work and who frequently asked after its development while I was penning it. Likewise, I offer my thanks to the animal studies scholars who attended the presentation of this work at