
Singing with Invisible Worlds
Fermenting Sake on Microbial Time
$164.67
- Hardcover
280 pages
- Release Date
3 November 2026
Summary
Rethinking life with microbes through the art of natural fermentation
Within us and around us, microbes are everywhere, constantly reshaping what it means to be human as we interact with them-sometimes knowingly, sometimes not. Singing with Invisible Worlds theorizes human-microbe relationships through a rare ethnographic account of the fermentation process at the 350-year-old Terada Honke, one of only two natural sake breweries in Japan.
Painting a vivid picture of…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781517921194 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1517921198 |
| Author: | Maya Hey |
| Publisher: | University of Minnesota Press |
| Imprint: | University of Minnesota Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 280 |
| Release Date: | 3 November 2026 |
| Weight: | 482g |
| Dimensions: | 216mm x 140mm x 15mm |
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Critics Review
“Singing with Invisible Worlds rethinks human-microbe futures, deftly showing how the Terada Honke brewers use nonscalable and multitemporal sensory practices to live and work with microbial uncertainty. Part incantation, part parable, the fermentation techniques that Maya Hey describes offer a moving methodological ethics for living together in increasingly pressurized times.” –Emily Yates-Doerr, author of Mal-Nutrition: Maternal Health Science and the Reproduction of Harm
About The Author
Maya Hey
Maya Hey is a postdoctoral researcher with the Environmental Humanities Laboratory at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden and a core member of the Centre for the Social Study of Microbes at the University of Helsinki.
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