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100 _a Tsing, Anna Lowenhaupt
245 _a The mushroom at the end of the world : on the possibility of life in capitalist ruins
260 _a Princeton
_bPrinceton University Press
_c2015
300 _a xii, 331 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
520 _aA 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
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