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Anna Tsing's page for her 2010 Guggenheim Award

Anna Tsing's 2011 Werheim Lecture: "Capital, Whence and Whither? Some Pacific Rim Ontologies (Vimeo). Honoring the legacy of Wertheim, this talk considers how inter-Asian developments shape global processes. How might the basic elements of contemporary globalization depend on Asian histories? This talk addresses this question from the perspective of matsutake, aromatic wild mushrooms valued in Japan and picked in forests around the Pacific Rim. The talk introduces Japanese supply chains and the forms of globalization they sponsor, and thus the entanglement of Japanese, Southeast Asian, and U.S. wars, people, and forests in the global trade in forest products. Such historical entanglements sponsor “process ontologies” for global capitalism.

Maps

• Maps of Indonesia
  Use pull-down menu to link to zoomable map of Kalimantan where Tsing worked.
• Tsing map (1993) of Meratus Mountains in Indonesia
• Tsing map (1993) of Meratus neighborhoods in Meratus mountains
• Tsing map (1993) of Meratus household's swidden movements through time 1956-1986

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