Matsutake worlds / edited by Lieba Faier and Michael J. Hathaway.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Faier, Lieba, editor.

Hathaway, Michael J., editor.

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Series:

Studies in social analysis ; v. 12.

Studies in social analysis ; volume 12

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tricholoma matsutake.

Rare fungi.

Physical Description:

xii, 161 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Berghahn, 2021.

Summary:

"The matsutake mushroom continues to be a highly sought delicacy, especially in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean cuisine. Matsutake Worlds explores this mushroom through the lens of multi-species encounters centered around the matsutake's notorious elusiveness. The mushroom's success, the contributors of this volume argue, cannot be accounted for by any one cultural, social, political, or economic process. Rather, the matsutake mushroom has flourished as the result of a number of different processes and dynamics, culminating in the culinary institution we know today"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Euphoric Anomaly: Matsutake's Elusive Elusiveness in 2010 Japan / Lieba Faier

Elusive Fungus? Forms of Attraction in Multispecies World Making / Michael J. Hathaway

Tending to Suspension: Abstraction and Apparatuses of Atmospheric Attunement in Matsutake Worlds / Timothy Choy

Matsutake, So Aromatic in Its Absence / Miyako Inoue

Sensing Multispecies Entanglements: Koto as an 'Ontology' of Living / Shiho Satsuka

How Things Hold: A Diagram of Coordination in a Satoyama Forest / Elaine Gan and Anna Tsing.

Notes:

"Originally published as a special issue of Social Analysis, volume 62, issue 4"--Colophon.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9781800730960

1800730969

9781800730977

1800730977

OCLC:

1197721843

Publisher Number:

99990015480