Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing is professor of anthropology at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and a Niels Bohr Professor at Aarhus University in Denmark, where she codirects Aarhus University Research on the Anthropocene (AURA). She is the author of Friction and In the Realm of the Diamond Queen (both Princeton).
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.
个人很喜欢这本书,因为很喜欢这种以小见大讲一个故事的叙事。这本书从一种偏门的菌类(比起口蘑什么的)串起了东方和西方,近几十年的资本主义发展史,甚至学术史,故事讲得太精彩了。我觉得要是完全以此书为脚本拍个纪录片肯定是个特别有看头的纪录片。 但是要从经典的学术结...
评分一本从松茸发散到资本供应链,资本积累历史的书,以小见大,不仅讲述了松茸在菌类中的独特性,更从松茸与整个森林生态的关系,与寄居在森林中的采摘者的文化纠缠,进而到后期的购买者、使用者之间的联系,让松茸从单纯的美食视角中转身出来,获得了一个更为广阔的展示空间,只...
评分人性是一种物种间的关系。在这篇文章中,哈拉维的“伴侣物种”(companion species)概念引领我们超越熟悉的伴侣,去向丰富的生态多样性。没有了生态多样性,人类无法存活。谷物驯化了人类。种植园给予我们称其为种族的亚种。家封锁了物种间和物种内部的爱。但是,蘑菇采集带我...
评分强批判姿态,弱批判力度
评分still, best ethnography read in recent years.
评分感情大于逻辑
评分强批判姿态,弱批判力度
评分感情大于逻辑
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