Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing is a Chinese-American anthropologist and a professor in the Anthropology Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz. In 2018 she was awarded the Huxley Memorial Medal of the Royal Anthropological Institute.
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Birth YearSourced to the subject's own account Nationality / CultureSourced to the subject's own account Defining ContributionSourced to the subject's own accountDeveloped the concept of friction, the awkward, unequal, unstable and creative qualities of interconnection across difference, as a framework for understanding global economic and ecological entanglement. 1 Notable WorkSourced to the subject's own accountThe Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins (2015) 1 Connections
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born 1952
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is an American anthropologist
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the awkward, unequal, unstable, and creative qualities of interconnection across difference
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Tsing's ethnographic account of the matsutake mushroom gives the readers a look into this rare, prized and expensive fungus
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In 1999, he began a relationship with anthropologist Anna Tsing, which lasted until his death.
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In 1999, he began a relationship with anthropologist Anna Tsing, which lasted until his death.
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