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<h1>The Mushroom at the End of the World</h1>
<h2>On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins</h2>
<h3>Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing</h3>
<p>Paperback 2017 19.95 14.99 ISBN9780691178325 352 pp. 6 x 9 1/4 29 b/w illus. E-book ISBN9781400873548</p>
<p>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?</p>
<p>A tale of diversity within our damaged landscapes, <em>The Mushroom at the End of the World</em> 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.
<p>By investigating one of the world's most sought-after fungi, <em>The Mushroom at the End of the World</em> presents an original examination into the relation between capitalist destruction and collaborative survival within multispecies landscapes, the prerequisite for continuing life on earth.</p>
<p><strong>Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing</strong> 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 <em>Friction</em> and <em>In the Realm of the Diamond Queen</em> (both Princeton).</p>
<h2>More about this book</h2>
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<li>Winner of the 2016 Victor Turner Prize in Ethnographic Writing, Society for Humanistic Anthropology</li>
<li>Winner of the 2016 Gregory Bateson Prize, The Society for Cultural Anthropology</li>
<li>Finalist for the 2016 Northern California Book Awards in General Nonfiction, Northern California Book Reviewers</li>
<li>One of Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Books of 2015 in Business and Economics</li>
<li>One of Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Books of 2015 in Science</li>
<li>One of Flavorwire’s 10 Best Books by Academic Publishers in 2015</li>
<li>One of Times Higher Education’s Best Books of 2015</li>
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<h2>Endorsements</h2>
<p>"Scientists and artists know that the way to handle an immense topic is often through close attention to a small aspect of it, revealing the whole through the part. In the shape of a finch's beak we can see all of evolution. So through close, indeed loving, attention to a certain fascinating mushroom, the matsutake, Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing discusses how the whole immense crisis of ecology came about and why it continues. Critical of simplistic reductionism, she offers clear analysis, and in place of panicked reaction considers possibilities of rational, humane, resourceful behavior. In a situation where urgency and enormity can overwhelm the mind, she gives us a real way to think about it. I'm very grateful to have this book as a guide through the coming years." <strong>—Ursula K. Le Guin</strong></p>
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