TY  - BOOK
AU  - Tsing,Anna Lowenhaupt
TI  - The mushroom at the end of the world: On the possibility of life in capitalist ruins 
SN  - 9780691220550
AV  - GF21 .T76 2021
U1  - 330.1 23
PY  - 2021///
CY  - Princeton, NJ
PB  - Princeton University Press
KW  - Human ecology
KW  - Economic development
KW  - Environmental aspects
KW  - Environmental degradation
KW  - Écologie humaine
KW  - Développement économique
KW  - Aspect de l'environnement
KW  - Environnement
KW  - Dégradation
KW  - human ecology
KW  - aat
KW  - cct
KW  - fast
N1  - First published 2015; P.B; Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-322) and index; Prologue; Autumn aroma. --; Part I; What's left?; Arts of noticing --; Contamination as collaboration --; Some problems with scale -- Interlude : smelling. --; Part II; After progress : salvage accumulation; Working the edge --; Freedom ... --; Open ticket, Oregon --; War stories --; What happened to the state? : two kinds of Asian Americans. ... in translation --; Between the dollar and the yen --; From gifts to commodities- and back --; Salvage rhythms : business in disturbance -- Interlude : tracking. --; Part III; Disturbed beginnings : unintentional design; The life of the forest --; Coming up among pines ... --; History --; Resurgence --; Serendipity --; Ruin --; ... in gaps and patches --; Science as translation --; Flying spores --; Interlude : dancing. --; Part IV; In the middle of things; Matsutake crusaders : waiting for fungal action --; Ordinary assets --; Anti-ending : some people I met along the way --; Spore trail : the further adventures of a mushroom
N2  - "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."--Publisher's description
ER  -