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Anna Tsing

Anthropology

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
1952 1
Nationality / CultureSourced to the subject's own account
American 1
Defining ContributionSourced to the subject's own account
Developed 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 account
The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins (2015) 1
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Source Wikipedia: James C. Scott
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1. Anna Tsing (Wikipedia)
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  • lead section: born
    born 1952
  • lead section: nationality
    is an American anthropologist
  • body section: friction
    the awkward, unequal, unstable, and creative qualities of interconnection across difference
  • body section: Mushroom at the End of the World
    Tsing's ethnographic account of the matsutake mushroom gives the readers a look into this rare, prized and expensive fungus
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Wikipedia: James C. Scott
Wikipedia
  • Associated With: James C. Scott, Personal life and death section
    In 1999, he began a relationship with anthropologist Anna Tsing, which lasted until his death.
  • Associated With: James C. Scott, Personal life and death section, Anna Tsing sentence
    In 1999, he began a relationship with anthropologist Anna Tsing, which lasted until his death.
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