The Multispecies Salon
"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 foo…
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- Full title :The Multispecies Salon / Eben Kirksey, editor.
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"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.
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- Publication Date:©2014
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Duke University Press
- Place of Publication:Durham
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2014
The Physical Object
- Description:306 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : : illustrations (some color) ; : 24 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780822356103, 0822356104, 9780822356257, 0822356252
- oclc:ocn870211314
- LC Classification:N8217.E28
- Dewey Decimal:709.73/09051
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