TY - BOOK AU - Tsing,Anna Lowenhaupt TI - The mushroom at the end of the world: on the possibility of life in capitalist ruins SN - 9780691162751 (hardcover : alk. paper) U1 - 330.1 23 KW - Human ecology KW - Economic development KW - Environmental aspects KW - Environmental degradation N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Prologue: autumn aroma -- What's left? -- Arts of noticing -- Contamination as collaboration -- Some problems with scale -- Interlude: smelling -- After progress : salvage accumulation -- Working the edge "freedom" -- Open ticket, Oregon -- War stories -- What happened to the state? : two kinds of Asian Americans in translation -- Between the dollar and the yen -- From gifts to commodities and back -- Salvage rhythms : business in disturbance -- Interlude: tracking -- Disturbed beginnings : unintentional design -- The life of the forest : coming up among pines -- History -- Resurgence -- Serendipity -- Ruin in gaps and patches -- In science as translation -- Flying spores -- Interlude: dancing -- In the middle of things -- Matsutake crusaders -- Ordinary assets -- Anti-ending : some people I met along the way -- Spore trail: the further adventures of a mushroom -- Notes -- Index ER -