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What the struggle over the Indonesian rainforests can teach us about the social frictions that shape the world around usRubbing two sticks together produces heat and light while one stick alone is just a stick. It is the friction that produces movement, action, and effect. Anthropologist Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing challenges the widespread view that globalization invariably signifies a clash of cultures, developing friction as a metaphor for the diverse and conflicting social interactions that make up our contemporary world.Tsing focuses on the rainforests of Indonesia, where in the 1980s and 1990s capitalist interests increasingly reshaped the landscape not so much through corporate design as through awkward chains of legal and illegal entrepreneurs that wrested the land from previous claimants, creating resources for distant markets. In response, environmental movements arose to defend the rainforests and the communities of people who live in them. Not confined to a village, province, or nation, the social drama of the Indonesian rainforests includes local and national environmentalists, international science, North American investors, advocates for Brazilian rubber tappers, United Nations funding agencies, mountaineers, village elders, and urban students—all drawn into unpredictable, messy misunderstandings, but misunderstandings that sometimes work out.Providing an invaluable portfolio of methods for the study of global interconnections, Friction shows how cultural differences are in the grip of worldly encounter and reveals how much is overlooked in contemporary theories of the global

In this highly original and much-anticipated ethnography, Anna Tsing challenges not only anthropologists and feminists but all those who study culture to reconsider some of their dearest assumptions. By choosing to locate her study among Meratus Dayaks, a marginal and marginalized group in the deep rainforest of South Kalimantan, Indonesia, Tsing deliberately sets into motion the familiar and stubborn urban fantasies of self and other. Unusual encounters with her remarkably creative and unconventional Meratus friends and teachers, however, provide the opportunity to rethink notions of tradition, community, culture, power, and gender--and the doing of anthropology. Tsing's masterful weaving of ethnography and theory, as well as her humor and lucidity, allow for an extraordinary reading experience for students, scholars, and anyone interested in the complexities of culture.Engaging Meratus in wider conversations involving Indonesian bureaucrats, family planners, experts in international development, Javanese soldiers, American and French feminists, Asian-Americans, right-to-life advocates, and Western intellectuals, Tsing looks not for consensus and coherence in Meratus culture but rather allows individual Meratus men and women to return our gaze. Bearing the fruit from the lively contemporary conversations between anthropology and cultural studies, In the Realm of the Diamond Queen will prove to be a model for thinking and writing about gender, power, and the politics of identity

A wheel turns because of its encounter with the surface of the road; spinning in the air it goes nowhere. Rubbing two sticks together produces heat and light; one stick alone is just a stick. In both cases, it is friction that produces movement, action, effect. Challenging the widespread view that globalization invariably signifies a "clash" of cultures, anthropologist Anna Tsing here develops friction in its place as a metaphor for the diverse and conflicting social interactions that make up our contemporary world. She focuses on one particular "zone of awkward engagement"--the rainforests of Indonesia--where in the 1980s and the 1990s capitalist interests increasingly reshaped the landscape not so much through corporate design as through awkward chains of legal and illegal entrepreneurs that wrested the land from previous claimants, creating resources for distant markets. In response, environmental movements arose to defend the rainforests and the communities of people who live in them. Not confined to a village, a province, or a nation, the social drama of the Indonesian rainforest includes local and national environmentalists, international science, North American investors, advocates for Brazilian rubber tappers, UN funding agencies, mountaineers, village elders, and urban students, among others--all combining in unpredictable, messy misunderstandings, but misunderstandings that sometimes work out. Providing a portfolio of methods to study global interconnections, Tsing shows how curious and creative cultural differences are in the grip of worldly encounter, and how much is overlooked in contemporary theories of the global

"A wheel turns because of its encounter with the surface of the road; spinning in the air it goes nowhere. Rubbing two sticks together produces heat and light; one stick alone is just a stick. In both cases, it is friction that produces movement, action, effect. Challenging the widespread view that globalization invariably signifies a "clash" of cultures, anthropologist Anna Tsing here develops friction in its place as a metaphor for the diverse and conflicting social interactions that make up our contemporary world. She focuses on one particular "zone of awkward engagement"--The rainforests of Indonesia--where in the 1980s and the 1990s capitalist interests increasingly reshaped the landscape not so much through corporate design as through awkward chains of legal and illegal entrepreneurs that wrested the land from previous claimants, creating resources for distant markets. In response, environmental movements arose to defend the rainforests and the communities of people who live in them. Not confined to a village, a province, or a nation, the social drama of the Indonesian rainforest includes local and national environmentalists, international science, North American investors, advocates for Brazilian rubber tappers, UN funding agencies, mountaineers, village elders, and urban students, among others--all combining in unpredictable, messy misunderstandings, but misunderstandings that sometimes work out." Book cover

How might Strathernian comparison extend anthropology beyond human exceptionalism? This essay explores how a fungal spore might guide attention to more-than-human nature. The exercise allows us to reflect on knowledge tools we use for understanding human as well as nonhuman social relations.

Das erste neue Leben, das sich nach der nuklearen Katastrope in Hiroshima wieder regte, war ein Pilz. Ein Matsutake, der auf den verseuchten Trümmern der Stadt wuchs IBM einer der wertvollsten Speisepilze Asiens, der nicht nur in Japan, wo er Spitzenpreise aufruft, vorkommt, sondern auf der gesamten Nordhalbkugel verbreitet ist. Dieser stark riechende Pilz wächst bevorzugt auf von der Industrialisierung verwüsten und ruinierten Böden und ist nicht kultivierbar. In ihrem faszinierenden kaleidoskopischen Essay geht die Anthropologin Anna Lowenhaupt-Tsing den Spuren dieses Pilzes sowie seiner biologischen und kulturellen Verbreitung nach und begibt sich damit auch auf die Suche nach den Möglichkeiten von Leben in einer vom Menschen zerstörten Umwelt. Sie erzählt Geschichten von Pilzsammlern, Wissenschaftlern und Matsutake-Händlern und öffnet einen neuen und ungewohnten Blick auf unsere kapitalistische Gegenwart. Denn eigentlicher Gegenstand ihrer preisgekrönten und in viele Sprachen übersetzten Erzählung ist die Ökologie des Matsutake, das Beziehungsgeflecht um den Pilz herum, als pars pro toto des Lebens auf den Ruinen des Kapitalismus, das ein Leben in Beziehungen sein IBM oder aber nicht sein wird. (Verlagstext)

Le matsutake est un champignon qui prolifère dans les forêts détruites. L'auteure s'est intéressée aux paysages naturels dévastés, envahis par les matsutake, qui sont ramassés par des travailleurs précaires et vendus ensuite sur les étals d'épiceries fines. Un éclairage sur la façon dont le capitalisme ravage la planète et une leçon sur une espèce qui vit de la dégradation environnementale

Words in motion / Carol Gluck -- Worlds in motion / Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing -- Segurança/security in Brazil and the United States / Itty Abraham -- Adat/indigenous : indigeneity in motion / Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing -- 'Ada/custom in the Middle East and Southeast Asia / Mona Abaza -- Sekinin/responsibility in modern Japan / Carol Gluck -- 'Ilmaniyya, laïcité, secularisme/secularism in Morocco / Driss Maghraoui -- Saburaimu/sublime : a Japanese word and its political afterlife / Alan Tansman -- 'Aqalliyya/minority in modern Egyptian discourse / Seteney Shami -- Ḥijāb/headscarf : a political journey / Claudia Koonz -- Injury : incriminating words and imperial power / Lydia H. Liu -- Conjuracion/conspiracy in the Philippine revolution of 1896 / Vicente L. Rafael -- Terrorism : state sovereignty and militant politics in India / Partha Chatterjee -- Komisyon/commission and kurul/board : words that rule / Huri Islamoglu -- Chumchon/community in Thailand / Craig J. Reynolds -- Thammarat/good governance in glocalizing Thailand / Kasian Tejapira