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Anna Tsing

アナ・チン　/　あな・ちん

Anthropologist

October 20, 1952 (age 73)

anthropologist
university teacher

My Take

Anna Tsing rewired how I think about scholarship. With The Mushroom at the End of the World, she took a single foraged fungus growing in ruined, post-industrial forests and spun it into a meditation on survival inside capitalism's wreckage. That is anthropology as poetry. A Chinese-American thinker trained at Yale and based at UC Santa Cruz, decorated with a Guggenheim, the Huxley Medal, and an honorary doctorate, she has the credentials, but it is her imagination that stays with me. She makes the small and overlooked feel cosmically important, and I came away looking at the ground beneath my feet with a little more tenderness.

Overview

Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing (born 1952) is a Chinese-American anthropologist. She is a professor in the Anthropology Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz. In 2018, she was awarded the Huxley Memorial Medal of the Royal Anthropological Institute.

Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

1. Profile

Name (English): Anna Tsing
Name (Japanese): アナ・チン
Reading: あな・ちん
Born: October 20, 1952 (age 73)
Zodiac / Chinese zodiac: Libra / Dragon
Blood type: Private
Height: Private
Agency: Private
Occupation: anthropologist / university teacher

2. Background

Elementary school: Private
Junior high: Private
High school: Private
University: Yale University

Awards & achievements

2010 Guggenheim Fellowship
2018 Huxley Memorial Medal
2021 Honorary doctor of the University of Liège

3. Relationships

Spouse: Private
Children: Private
Parents: Private
Siblings: Private

4. Personality

Motto

Private

5. Works & records

Category	Title	Role	Year
Notable work	The Mushroom at the End of the World	—

6. Links

Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A2%E3%83%8A%E3%83%BB%E3%83%81%E3%83%B3

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