Anna Tsing

Anthropology American 1952 102 quotes

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.

Book 2015

Power is not possession but relation.

Book 2005

In times of crisis, ordinary people invent new ways to live.

Book 2015

Anthropology is the study of becoming, not being.

Letter 1985

Forests teach us about interdependence.

Book 2015

Colonialism lingers in the landscapes we inhabit.

Book 1993

Stories of mushrooms are stories of survival.

Book 2015

Difference breeds innovation, not conflict.

Book 2005

The lab is everywhere; science is in the everyday.

Interview 2010

We are all foragers in the ruins.

Book 2015

Ethnography captures the pulse of possibility.

Speech 2000

Capitalism's frontiers are zones of encounter.

Book 2005

Nature and culture are co-productions.

Book 2015

Listening to the land means hearing its histories.

Book 1993

Precarity fosters creativity.

Book 2015

Anthropologists bridge worlds through words.

Letter 1980

Mushrooms remind us of life's tenacity.

Book 2015

Global connections are local achievements.

Book 2005

In the Anthropocene, we all learn to adapt.

Book 2015

Fieldwork reveals the poetry of the ordinary.

Interview 1990