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ISBN:	0691162751 (ISBN13: 9780691162751)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	Northern California Book Awards Nominee for General Nonfiction (finalist) (2016), Victor Turner Prize in Ethnographic Writing for Society and Humanistic Anthropology (2016)

The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins Hardcover | Pages: 331 pages

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Matsutake is the most valuable mushroom in the world--and a weed that grows in human-disturbed forests across the northern hemisphere. Through its ability to nurture trees, matsutake helps forests to grow in daunting places. It is also an edible delicacy in Japan, where it sometimes commands astronomical prices. In all its contradictions, matsutake offers insights into areas far beyond just mushrooms and addresses a crucial question: what manages to live in the ruins we have made?

A tale of diversity within our damaged landscapes, The Mushroom at the End of the World follows one of the strangest commodity chains of our times to explore the unexpected corners of capitalism. Here, we witness the varied and peculiar worlds of matsutake commerce: the worlds of Japanese gourmets, capitalist traders, Hmong jungle fighters, industrial forests, Yi Chinese goat herders, Finnish nature guides, and more. These companions also lead us into fungal ecologies and forest histories to better understand the promise of cohabitation in a time of massive human destruction.

By investigating one of the world's most sought-after fungi, The Mushroom at the End of the World presents an original examination into the relation between capitalist destruction and collaborative survival within multispecies landscapes, the prerequisite for continuing life on earth.

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Title	:	The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins
Author	:	Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 331 pages
Published	:	September 29th 2015 by Princeton University Press
Categories	:	Nonfiction. Anthropology. Science. Environment. Nature. Politics. Economics

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truly enjoyed this slow meandering book, especially the chapters she calls the freedom assemblage!! a dream syllabus on renegade communities would pair this section with excerpts from Dixie Be Damned about the great dismal swamp, I think

Anna Tsing is my academic hero. She doesnt squeeze her ideas into a linear arc with a neat conclusionshe lets them pop up unexpectedly, shrivel and intertwine (like, shes quick to point out, the mushrooms shes studying). This book defies any kind of summation: it contains mycology, mycological historiography, the political economy of post World War II Japan, comparative ethnographies of Vietnam veterans and Vietnamese immigrants, riffs on dancing, on spore formation, on capital in translation

Came across this book written by anthropologist Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing subtitled as hunting for mushrooms and the capitalist ruins :). it's an incredible book of anthropology about matsutake mushrooms which is world's most expensive mushroom. She tracks the communities of people often violently exiled, who are harvesting the mushroom in the northwest of United Sates and the different kinds of collaborations, commodity chains and affiliations that spring up. But even though it's about mushrooms,

I love to sink into the mind of Anna Tsing, because she knows her mind -- and her writing -- isn't 'hers.' It's a web of roots and rhizomes where all kinds of creatures are welcome.As academic writing: this is such a good challenge to old epistemologies and ego-infused academies. This is playful, collaborative, and surprising. As Tsing writes: "Getting by without progress requires a good deal of feeling around with our hands." As lyrical prose: some sentences made me grit my teeth.As political

INSPIRING!!!! WHAT MIGHT IT BE LIKE TO LET LOOSE AND BE AS CREATIVE AS YOU WANT TO BE IN ACADEMIA???????????? ********the caveat is that you need to have TOTAL UNEQUIVOCAL grasp of the field before you do so which I DEFINITELY don't have and therefore DO NOT feel qualified to write like this yet but maybe someday.................................

Not as fun as toads and toadstools I tell you what

Not as fun as toads and toadstools I tell you what