Books by Anna Tsing
“What this shows us is how we might envisage a kind of global ethnography or anthropology of the forces that structure our lives, which we may cooperate with or resist. In Tsing’s case, this was the heyday of globalisation. Everyone was talking about it, and often in the abstract. But Tsing showed that ‘the global’ is not an abstract force—you can see it in particular encounters, in particular places. Migrant labourers arrive in a forest to log it. Corporations come in to talk to village elders, trying to establish a foothold. When activists start speaking back, they sometimes use the language of international organisations to do it. All this is the work of a globalised world, and it is happening in Indonesia at the same time as it is happening in rust belt America or in any mining site anywhere in the world.” Read more...
The best books on Anthropology
Ruben Andersson, Social Scientist
