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During the years it took to research and write this book I was almost always outside my areas of expertise and more than usually dependent on the generosity of others. A huge number of people helped me, some with individual chapters, others with advice and encouragement throughout the entire time. In most cases, I can only list them by name and add simply that one of the great pleasures of the past few years has been the opportunity to learn so much from so many of them.

As always, my first and deepest thanks are to my dearest friend and co-conspirator Sharon Simpson. Every idea and feeling in this book has traveled back and forth between us endless times. It is not just that this book would be different without her, it simply wouldn’t exist.

My gratitude and appreciation goes also to everyone who trusted me enough to let me write about their lives. In particular, I’m grateful to Cornelia Hesse-Honegger, David Dunn, Fang Dali, Jeff Vilencia, Kawasaki Mitsuya, Li Shijun, Sugiura Tetsuya, Yajima Minoru, and Yoro Takeshi.

Equally significant has been the contribution of the three talented and dedicated research collaborators, now friends, who in fundamental ways co-wrote the major fieldwork chapters with me: Hu YanJun in China, Shige (CJ) Suzuki in Japan, and Abdoulkarim Saidou in Niger.

That fieldwork could not have happened without some extraordinary kindness from other friends old and new. For this, I’m especially grateful to Mei Zhan, Huang Jingying, Tyler Rooker, Ding Xiaoqian, Mahamane Tidjani Alou, Nassirou Bako Arifari, Shiho Satsuka, Gavin Whitelaw, and Thomas Bierschenk.

Back in the United States, I benefited greatly from the skilled bibliographic, translation, and interpretive work of Steve Connell, Ling Chen, Hisae Kawamori, Gabrielle Popoff, and Yumiko Iwasaki.

I’m indebted to Denise Shannon, my literary agent, for her good humor, patience, and wisdom, and to Dan Frank, my editor at Pantheon, for not only encouraging me to go my own way but gently insisting I do so. My thanks also to Michiko Clark, Altie Karper, Jill Verrillo, and Abigail Winograd at Pantheon.

I’m grateful to The New School for providing me with an exhilarating work environment and for the paycheck and research funds that allowed all this to happen, and to Jim Scott and Kay Mansfield at the Yale Program in Agrarian Studies for the year’s fellowship (in all senses of the term) that gave me the chance to develop the initial shape of this project.

Without the following people—and I’m certain also others whom I’ve inadvertently omitted—this book would have been far less: Adriana Aquino, Al Lingis, Alan Christy, Alex Bick, Alexei Yurchak, Alondra Nelson, Amber Benezra, Anand Pandian, Ann Stoler, Anna Tsing, Anne-Marie Slézec, Annemarie Mol, Antoinette Tidjani Alou, Arjun Appadurai, Arun Agrawal, Ayako Furuta, Barrett Klein, Ben Orlove, Beth Povinelli, Bill Maurer, Boureima Alpha Gado, Brantley Bardin, Bruce Braun, Carla Freccero, Carol Breckenridge, Charles Whitcroft, Charlie Piot, Christine Padoch, Claudio Lomnitz, Dan Linger, David Porter, Dejan Lukic, Dieter Hall, Dilip Menon, Ding Xuewen, Don Kulick, Don Moore, Donna Haraway, Ed Kamens, Emily Martin, Eric Hamilton, Eric Worby, Ernst-August Seyfarth, Faisal Devji, Fatema Ahmed, Federico Finchelstein, Fred Appel, Fu Shui Miao, Fu Zhou Liang, Gabriel Vignoli, Gail Hershatter, Gary Shapiro, Graham Burnett, Grzegorz Sokol, Heather Watson, Hoon Song, Hsiung Ping-chen, Hylton White, Iijima Kazuhiko, Ilana Gershon, I-Yi Hsieh, Jacek Nowakowski, Jake Kosek, Janelle Lamoreaux, Janet Roitman, Janet Sturgeon, Jean-Yves Durand, Jim Clifford, Jin Xingbao, Jody Greene, Joe Masco, John Marlovits, Jonathan Bach, June Howard, Karen Davidson, Katharine Gates, Kimio Honda, Larry Hirschfeld, Lawrence Cohen, Leander Schneider, Lee Hendrix, Li Jun, Lisa Rofel, Louise Fortmann, Martin Lasden, Matt Wolf-Meyer, Maya Gautschi, Mick Taussig, Miguel Pinedo-Vásquez, Miriam Ticktin, Monica Phillipo, Nancy Jacobs, Nancy Peluso, Nataki Hewlett, Natasha Copeland, Neferti Tadiar, Niki Labruto, Noriko Aso, Norma Field, Oana Mateescu, Ohira Hiroshi, Okumoto Daizaburo, Orit Halpern, Paolo Palladino, Paul Gilroy, Peter Lindner, Ralph Litzinger, Rebecca Hardin, Rebecca Solnit, Rebecca Stein, Reiko Matsumiya, Rhea Rahman, Riccardo Innocenti, Roberto Koshikawa, Rotem Geva, Saba Mahmood, Sally Heckel, Shao Honghua, Sina Najafi, Stefan Helmreich, Stuart McLean, Susan Harding, Susan O’Donovan, Susanna Hecht, Tao Zhi Qing, Tim Choy, Tjitske Holtrop, Tom Baione, Toni Schlesinger, Vicky Hattam, Vron Ware, Vyjayanthi Rao, Wang Yuegen, Wendy Yu, Wulan, Yangtian Feng, Yen-ling Tsai, Yi Yinjiong, and Yukiko Koga.

Finally, there are a good number of people in this book whom, for various reasons, I refer to by pseudonym. Some are people in Shanghai who talked to me in unsafe circumstances. Others are people whose names I never learned but who shared their knowledge with me in markets, stores, museums, on street corners, and in all those places where insects find their way into our lives. To them, and to the residents of Dandasay, Dan mata Sohoua, and Rijio Oubandawakim in Niger and, once again, to my friends in Igarapé Guariba in Brazil, I extend my heartfelt thanks.