Singing with Invisible Worlds by Maya Hey - ISBN: 9781517921200
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Fermenting life: Rethinking humans and microbes through sake brewing.
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Singing with Invisible Worlds

Fermenting Sake on Microbial Time

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    280 pages

  • Release Date

    3 November 2026

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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-13:9781517921200
ISBN-10:1517921201
Author:Maya Hey
Publisher:University of Minnesota Press
Imprint:University of Minnesota Press
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:280
Release Date:3 November 2026
Weight:340g
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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