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Matsutake worlds

"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, th...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Faier, Lieba (Editor), Hathaway, Michael J. (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York Berghahn 2021
Series:Studies in social analysis ; v. 12.
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Online Access:Texto completo
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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"--
Item Description:"Originally published as a special issue of Social Analysis, volume 62, issue 4"--Colophon
Physical Description:1 online resource (xii, 161 pages) illustrations
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN:9781800730984
1800730985