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 f...
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.
The Mushroom at the End of the World的创作者
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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).
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Frontmatter, pg. i
Contents, pg. v
Enabling Entanglements, pg. vii
Prologue. Autumn Aroma, pg. 1
1. Arts of Noticing, pg. 11
2. Contamination as Collaboration, pg. 27
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Frontmatter, pg. i
Contents, pg. v
Enabling Entanglements, pg. vii
Prologue. Autumn Aroma, pg. 1
1. Arts of Noticing, pg. 11
2. Contamination as Collaboration, pg. 27
3. Some Problems with Scale, pg. 37
4. Working the Edge, pg. 55
5. Open Ticket, Oregon, pg. 73
6. War Stories, pg. 85
7. What Happened to the State? Two Kinds of Asian Americans, pg. 97
8. Between the Dollar and the Yen, pg. 109
9. From Gifts to Commodities—and Back, pg. 121
10. Salvage Rhythms: Business in Disturbance, pg. 131
11. The Life of the Forest, pg. 149
12. History, pg. 167
13. Resurgence, pg. 179
14. Serendipity, pg. 193
15. Ruin, pg. 205
16. Science as Translation, pg. 217
17. Flying Spores, pg. 227
18. Matsutake Crusaders: Waiting for Fungal Action, pg. 251
19. Ordinary Assets, pg. 267
20. Anti-ending: Some People I Met along the Way, pg. 277
Notes, pg. 289
Index, pg. 323
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2 有用 纪恩同学 2016-03-26 11:10:50
看这种不按套路出牌的书感受还是挺怪的。。。
1 有用 legallyannoyed 2026-05-31 22:01:59 荷兰
写法太文艺了奇妙平行对比和王鸥行写书一样
1 有用 傻海纸 2020-10-13 13:42:00
我就是这么自由这么诗意的学术写作，脑洞大开。跟Keeling非常esoteric的理论跳跃与诗意写作相比，Tsing的写作基于田野-非常descriptive (in a good way)也非常个人化。两人的近作都非常inspiring，让人思考如何在难逃的资本主义吞噬与废墟中开辟另类生存。
4 有用 曉宇 2018-09-10 17:26:19
still, best ethnography read in recent years.
2 有用 酸吗 2017-03-26 23:51:47
谁能不爱Tsing呢 想起老师第一次见我 说希望我七八年毕业后能写出类似的dissertation 真是个恐怖的期望啊 （beyond capitalism and Anthropocene, collaborative survival in ruins)