The Mushroom at the End of the World
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| Author | Anna Tsing |
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| Language | English |
| Subject | Capitalism, Commodity chain, Matsutake, Anthropocene |
| Publisher | Princeton University Press |
Publication date | 2015 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback) |
| Pages | 352 pp. |
| ISBN | 9781400873548 |
The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins is a 2015 book by the Chinese American anthropologist Anna Tsing. The book describes the globalized commodity chains that exist around matsutake mushrooms that only grow in human-disturbed forests.
Critical reception
The book won the following awards:
- 2016 Victor Turner Prize in Ethnographic Writing from the Society for Humanistic Anthropology
- 2016 Gregory Bateson Prize from the Society for Cultural Anthropology
- Kirkus Reviews, Best Nonfiction books of 2015, Business and Economics
- Kirkus Reviews, Best Nonfiction books of 2015, Science
- Times Higher Education, Best Books of 2015
Reviews
- Bell, Joshua A. (2017). "The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing". Anthropological Quarterly. 90 (1): 277–282. doi:10.1353/anq.2017.0011. ISSN 1534-1518.
- Cons, Jason (2016). "The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins". The Journal of Asian Studies. 75 (3): 798–800. doi:10.1017/s0021911816000656. ISSN 0021-9118.
{{cite journal}}: Invalid|ref=harv(help) - Helmreich, Stefan (2016). "The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins". American Ethnologist. 43 (3): 570–572. doi:10.1111/amet.12356. ISSN 0094-0496.
- Kim, Eleana J. (2017). "The Arts of Noticing: The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins". Current Anthropology. 58 (1): 138–140. doi:10.1086/690139. ISSN 0011-3204.
- Padwe, Jonathan (2018). "The mushroom at the end of the world: on the possibility of life in capitalist ruins". The Journal of Peasant Studies. 46 (2): 433–437. doi:10.1080/03066150.2018.1492777. ISSN 0306-6150.
- Pham, Yamoi (2016). "The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins". East Asian Science, Technology and Society. 11 (4): 613–616. doi:10.1215/18752160-3667933. ISSN 1875-2160.
- Sullivan, Sian (2018). "On possibilities for salvaged polyphonic ecologies in a ruined world" (PDF). Dialogues in Human Geography. 8 (1): 69–72. doi:10.1177/2043820617738835. ISSN 2043-8206.
Links
Related reading
- Lorimer, Jamie (2017). "The Anthropo-scene: A guide for the perplexed". Social Studies of Science. 47 (1): 117–142. doi:10.1177/0306312716671039. ISSN 0306-3127. PMID 28195027.
- Haraway, Donna; Ishikawa, Noboru; Gilbert, Scott F.; Olwig, Kenneth; Tsing, Anna; Bubandt, Nils (2015). "Anthropologists Are Talking – About the Anthropocene". Ethnos. 81 (3): 535–564. doi:10.1080/00141844.2015.1105838.
- Haraway, Donna (2015). "Anthropocene, Capitalocene, Plantationocene, Chthulucene: Making Kin". Environmental Humanities. 6 (1): 159–165. doi:10.1215/22011919-3615934. ISSN 2201-1919.
- Orr, Yancey; Lansing, J. Stephen; Dove, Michael R. (2015). "Environmental Anthropology: Systemic Perspectives". Annual Review of Anthropology. 44 (1): 153–168. doi:10.1146/annurev-anthro-102214-014159. ISSN 0084-6570.