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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Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing (born 1952) 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
Practices Studied: Capitalism, Article text
Tsing follows its international journey in order to give the reader insight into the mushroom's complex commodity chain connecting to meditations on capitalism.
Practices Studied: Slavery, Article text
These models of plantation were based on migratory forced labor (slavery), intensive land usage, globalized commerce, and constant racialized violence, which have all transformed the lives of humans and non-humans worldwide.
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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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