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, 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. "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

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.

Contents Illustrations Foreword Introduction: Elusive Matsutake Chapter 1 Euphoric Anomaly: Matsutake’s Elusive Elusiveness in 2010 Japan Chapter 2 Elusive Fungus? Forms of Attraction in Multispecies World Making Chapter 3 Tending to Suspension: Abstraction and Apparatuses of Atmospheric Attunement in Matsutake Worlds Chapter 4 Matsutake, So Aromatic in Its Absence Chapter 5 Sensing Multispecies Entanglements: Koto as an ‘Ontology’ of Living Chapter 6 How Things Hold: A Diagram of Coordination in a Satoyama Forest Afterword: Heeding Headless Thoughts Index Matsutake Worlds explores matsutake mushrooms through the lens of multispecies encounters, to explore the mushroom’s success on the world stage. This success cannot be accounted for by any one cultural or economic process—rather, the matsutake has flourished due to many different processes, culminating in the culinary institution we know today.