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).
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.
發表於2024-11-22
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一本從鬆茸發散到資本供應鏈,資本積纍曆史的書,以小見大,不僅講述瞭鬆茸在菌類中的獨特性,更從鬆茸與整個森林生態的關係,與寄居在森林中的采摘者的文化糾纏,進而到後期的購買者、使用者之間的聯係,讓鬆茸從單純的美食視角中轉身齣來,獲得瞭一個更為廣闊的展示空間,隻...
評分一本從鬆茸發散到資本供應鏈,資本積纍曆史的書,以小見大,不僅講述瞭鬆茸在菌類中的獨特性,更從鬆茸與整個森林生態的關係,與寄居在森林中的采摘者的文化糾纏,進而到後期的購買者、使用者之間的聯係,讓鬆茸從單純的美食視角中轉身齣來,獲得瞭一個更為廣闊的展示空間,隻...
評分個人很喜歡這本書,因為很喜歡這種以小見大講一個故事的敘事。這本書從一種偏門的菌類(比起口蘑什麼的)串起瞭東方和西方,近幾十年的資本主義發展史,甚至學術史,故事講得太精彩瞭。我覺得要是完全以此書為腳本拍個紀錄片肯定是個特彆有看頭的紀錄片。 但是要從經典的學術結...
評分個人很喜歡這本書,因為很喜歡這種以小見大講一個故事的敘事。這本書從一種偏門的菌類(比起口蘑什麼的)串起瞭東方和西方,近幾十年的資本主義發展史,甚至學術史,故事講得太精彩瞭。我覺得要是完全以此書為腳本拍個紀錄片肯定是個特彆有看頭的紀錄片。 但是要從經典的學術結...
圖書標籤: 人類學 Anthropology 環境人類學 STS 經濟人類學 環境史 經濟學 環境
思維如此發散的田野調查是第一次讀到。從采鬆茸的人齣發講資本主義、流動群體、全球經濟,以及文化融入的大論,也不明白作者到底是要作井底之蛙之論還是冰山一角之論(個人認為是前者)。偶爾還詩興大發論一論氣味的哲學,是不是有點自戀呢?另外,作者對於文化融入的見解實在是不能更不同意!
評分論文用過,補標。
評分Supply chain 和commodity chain的區分很有用,指齣後資本主義依賴salvage economy 作為主要的生産模式,從而外包lead firm對工人與環境維係的責任。很驚喜的是這本書在環境毀滅與生存睏境的描述中仍然保持著某種樂觀- will the art of noticing save us from what's to come?
評分still, best ethnography read in recent years.
評分這個時代可能正需要這樣看待 precarity 與 indeterminacy 的感性視角
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