Overview

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.

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Author:   Lieba Faier ,  Michael J. Hathaway
Publisher:   Berghahn Books
Imprint:   Berghahn Books
Volume:   12
ISBN:  

9781800730977

ISBN 10:   1800730977
Pages:   150
Publication Date:   16 July 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Foreword Hannah Landecker Introduction: Elusive Matsutake Lieba Faier for the Matsutake Worlds Research Group Chapter 1. Euphoric Anomaly: Matsutake’s Elusive Elusiveness in 2010 Japan Lieba Faier Chapter 2. Elusive Fungus? Forms of Attraction in Multispecies World Making Michael J. Hathaway Chapter 3. Tending to Suspension: Abstraction and Apparatuses of Atmospheric Attunement in Matsutake Worlds Timothy Choy Chapter 4. Matsutake, So Aromatic in Its Absence Miyako Inoue Chapter 5. Sensing Multispecies Entanglements: Koto as an ‘Ontology’ of Living Shiho Satsuka Chapter 6. How Things Hold: A Diagram of Coordination in a Satoyama Forest Elaine Gan and Anna Tsing Afterword: Heeding Headless Thoughts Eduardo Kohn Index

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Lieba Faier is an Associate Professor in Geography at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her first book is Intimate Encounters: Filipina Women and the Remaking of Rural Japan (2009), and she has published in American Ethnologist, Cultural Anthropology, Annual Review of Anthropology, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, and Environment and Planning A.

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