Anna Tsing
An influential environmental anthropologist known for her work on multispecies ethnography, global supply chains, and the precarity of life.
Quotes by Anna Tsing
The Anthropocene demands a multispecies ethnography.
Power is not possession but relation.
In times of crisis, ordinary people invent new ways to live.
Anthropology is the study of becoming, not being.
Forests teach us about interdependence.
Colonialism lingers in the landscapes we inhabit.
Stories of mushrooms are stories of survival.
Difference breeds innovation, not conflict.
The lab is everywhere; science is in the everyday.
We are all foragers in the ruins.
Ethnography captures the pulse of possibility.
Capitalism's frontiers are zones of encounter.
Nature and culture are co-productions.
Listening to the land means hearing its histories.
Precarity fosters creativity.
Anthropologists bridge worlds through words.
Mushrooms remind us of life's tenacity.
Global connections are local achievements.
In the Anthropocene, we all learn to adapt.
Fieldwork reveals the poetry of the ordinary.