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The mushroom at the end of the world : on the possibility of life in capitalist ruins /
Matsutake is the most valuable mushroom in the world-and a weed that grows in human-disturbed forests across the northern hemisphere. Through its ability to nurture trees, matsutake helps forests to grow in daunting places. It is also an edible delicacy in Japan, where it sometimes commands astronom...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, New Jersey :
Princeton University Press,
2015.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Prologue : Autumn aroma.
- Part I. What's left? Arts of noticing ; Contamination as collaboration ; Some problems with scale ; Interlude : smelling
- Part II. After progress : salvage accumulation. Working the edge ; Freedom ... ; Open ticket, Oregon ; War stories ; What happened to the state? Two kinds of Asian Americans ; ... In translation ; Between the dollar and the yen ; From gifts to commodities--and back ; Salvage rhythms : business in disturbance ; Interlude : tracking
- Part III: Disturbed beginnings : unintentional design. The life of the forest ; Coming up among pines ... ; History ; Resurgence ; Serendipity ; Ruin ; ... In gaps and patches ; Science as translation ; Flying spores ; Interlude : dancing
- Part IV. In the middle of things. Matsutake crusaders : waiting for fungal action ; Ordinary assets ; Anti-ending : some people I met along the way ; Spore trail : the further adventures of a mushroom.