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| − | '''Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing''' is a professor of anthropology at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and a Niels Bohr Professor in the Department of Culture and Society at Aarhus University in Denmark. She is the author of ''In the Realm of the Diamond Queen'' ( | + | '''Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing''' (1952) is a professor of anthropology at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and a Niels Bohr Professor in the Department of Culture and Society at Aarhus University in Denmark. She is the author of ''In the Realm of the Diamond Queen'' (1993), ''Friction'' (2005) and ''The Mushroom at the End of the World'' (2015). |
| − | + | Tsing received her B.A. from Yale University and completed her masters and Ph.D. at Stanford University. She has contributed, and written several articles and books on a broad range of anthropological subjects and in 2010, she received a Guggenheim Fellowship. In 2013, Tsing won a Niels Bohr Professorship at Aarhus University in Denmark for her contribution to interdisciplinary work in the fields of the humanities, natural sciences, social sciences, and the arts. She is currently developing a transdisciplinary program for exploring the Anthropocene. Tsing is director of the [http://anthropocene.au.dk/da/ AURA project] at Aarhus University. | |
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| + | ==Works== | ||
* editor, with F. Ginsburg, ''Uncertain Terms: Negotiating Gender in American Culture'', Beacon Press, 1992. | * editor, with F. Ginsburg, ''Uncertain Terms: Negotiating Gender in American Culture'', Beacon Press, 1992. | ||
* ''In the Realm of the Diamond Queen: Marginality in an Out-of-the-Way Place'', Princeton University Press, 1993. | * ''In the Realm of the Diamond Queen: Marginality in an Out-of-the-Way Place'', Princeton University Press, 1993. | ||
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* [http://aaaaarg.fail/maker/531073f8334fe07269203cd1 more at ARG] | * [http://aaaaarg.fail/maker/531073f8334fe07269203cd1 more at ARG] | ||
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* [http://anthro.ucsc.edu/faculty/singleton.php?&singleton=true&cruz_id=atsing Profile at UC Santa Cruz] | * [http://anthro.ucsc.edu/faculty/singleton.php?&singleton=true&cruz_id=atsing Profile at UC Santa Cruz] | ||
[[Category:Anthropology|Tsing, Anna L]] | [[Category:Anthropology|Tsing, Anna L]] | ||
Revision as of 12:17, 27 March 2018
Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing (1952) is a professor of anthropology at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and a Niels Bohr Professor in the Department of Culture and Society at Aarhus University in Denmark. She is the author of In the Realm of the Diamond Queen (1993), Friction (2005) and The Mushroom at the End of the World (2015).
Tsing received her B.A. from Yale University and completed her masters and Ph.D. at Stanford University. She has contributed, and written several articles and books on a broad range of anthropological subjects and in 2010, she received a Guggenheim Fellowship. In 2013, Tsing won a Niels Bohr Professorship at Aarhus University in Denmark for her contribution to interdisciplinary work in the fields of the humanities, natural sciences, social sciences, and the arts. She is currently developing a transdisciplinary program for exploring the Anthropocene. Tsing is director of the AURA project at Aarhus University.
Works
- editor, with F. Ginsburg, Uncertain Terms: Negotiating Gender in American Culture, Beacon Press, 1992.
- In the Realm of the Diamond Queen: Marginality in an Out-of-the-Way Place, Princeton University Press, 1993.
- editor, with P. Greenough, Nature in the Global South: Environmental Projects in South and Southeast Asia, Duke University Press, 2003.
- editor, with B. van Eekelen, J. González, and B. Stötzer, Shock and Awe: War on Words, New Pacific Press, 2004.
- editor, with J.P. Brosius and C. Zerner, Communities and Conservation, AltaMira Press 2005.
- Friction: An Ethnography of Global Connection, Princeton University Press, 2005.
- editor, with C. Gluck, Words in Motion, Duke University Press, 2009.
- The Mushroom at the End of the World: on the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins, Princeton University Press, 2015, 352 pp. [1]
- editor, with Heather Anne Swanson, Elaine Gan, and Nils Bubandt, Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet: Ghosts and Monsters of the Anthropocene, University of Minnesota Press, 2017, 368 pp.
- more at ARG
