Anna Tsing

We live in times of precarity, where survival depends on collaboration.

Stories are how we make sense of the world's entanglements.

Indigeneity is not a fixed identity but a way of being in relation.

The matsutake trade reveals the hidden economies of the Anthropocene.

Difference is the engine of history.

To study culture is to trace the movements of power and possibility.

In the mushroom's world, humans are just one species among many.

Precarity is the condition of our times; it calls for new alliances.

Anthropologists must be storytellers in a world of fragments.

The edge of the forest is where worlds meet and transform.

Capital doesn't conquer; it assembles.

Life persists in the cracks of ruin.

We need arts of noticing to see the world anew.

Translation is never perfect; it's always a negotiation.

The supply chain is a web of lives, not just commodities.

History is made in the encounters between worlds.

Fieldwork is a dance with uncertainty.

Mycelium connects what seems separate.

Neoliberalism fragments communities, but resilience grows from the pieces.

To understand globalization, follow the frictions.