Description
Book Synopsis 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.
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
