Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing

Books⁴

Friction: An Ethnography of Global Connection Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing
What the struggle over the Indonesian rainforests can teach us about the social frictions that shape the world around us
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The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing
"A poetic and remarkably fertile exploration of the relationship between human beings and the natural environment."—Pankaj Mishra, The Guardian
"I'm very grateful to have this book."—Ursula K. Le Guin
The acclaimed and award-winning book about what a rare mushroom can teach...

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Friction: An Ethnography of Global Connection Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing
What the struggle over the Indonesian rainforests can teach us about the social frictions that shape the world around us
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In the Realm of the Diamond Queen: Marginality in an Out-of-the-Way Place Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing
In this highly original and much-anticipated ethnography, Anna Tsing challenges not only anthropologists and feminists but all those who study culture to reconsider some of their dearest assumptions. By choosing to locate her study...
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Ideas¹

A look inside The Mushroom at the End of the World In 1908 and 1909 two railroad entrepreneurs raced each other to build track along Oregon’s Deschutes River. The goal of each was to be the first to create an industrial connection between the towering ponderosas of the eastern Cascades and the stacke... Read More