Worlding the Matsutake Diaspora: Or, can Actor-Network Theory Experiment with Holism?

Experiments in Holism: Theory and Practice in Contemporary Anthropology

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 47-66

  Tsing, Anna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

"the ethnographic moment"; "The Limitations of the Comparative Method of Anthropology"; Actor network theory (ANT); From Scallops to Mushrooms; Implicit Worlding; Marginal Worldings; Studying Science With the Ants; The Uses of Disorientation; Worlding at the Encounters; Worlding the Matsutake Diaspora

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885554323     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444324426.ch4     Document Type: Chapter

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