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The Multispecies Salon / Eben Kirksey, editor.

Kirksey, Eben, 1976- (editor.).

Summary:

"A new approach to writing culture has arrived: multispecies ethnography. Plants, animals, fungi, and microbes appear alongside humans in this singular book about natural and cultural history. Anthropologists have collaborated with artists and biological scientists to illuminate how diverse organisms are entangled in political, economic, and cultural systems. ... Delectable mushrooms flourishing in the aftermath of ecological disaster, microbial cultures enlivening the politics and value of food, and nascent life forms running wild in the age of biotechnology all figure in this curated collection of essays and artifacts."--Publisher description.

Record details

ISBN: 9780822356257
ISBN: 0822356252
Physical Description: 306 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Publisher: Durham : Duke University Press, 2014.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Hope in blasted landscapes / Eben Kirksey, Nick Shapiro, and Maria Brodine -- R.A.W. Assmilk Soap / Karin Bolender -- Blasted landscapes (and the gentle arts of mushroom picking) / Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, for the Matsutake Worlds Research Group -- Microbiopolitics / Heather Paxson -- Lindsay Kelley -- Human cheese / Miriam Simun -- Multispecies communities / Eben Kirksey -- Bitter medicine is stronger / Linda Noel, Christine Hamilton, Anna Rodriguez, Angela James, Nathan Rich, David S. Edmunds, and Kim TallBear -- Life cycle of a common weed / Caitlin Berrigan -- Life in the age of biotechnology / Eben Kirksey, Brandon Costelloe-Kuehn, and Dorion Sagan -- Invertebrate visions : diffractions of the brittlestar / Karen Barad -- Speculative fabulations for technoculture's generations : taking care of unexpected country / Donna J. Haraway.