Anna L. Tsing

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 (1994) and Friction (2005). She is collaborating with other ethnographers in the Matsutake Worlds Research Group to study global scientific, ecological, and commercial connections involving matsutake mushrooms.

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, 1994.
• 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

Links

• Profile at UC Santa Cruz