How the prized matsutake mushroom is remaking human communities in
China—and providing new ways to understand human and
more-than-human worlds What a Mushroom Lives For pushes today’s
mushroom renaissance in compelling new directions. For centuries,
Western science has promoted a human- and animal-centric framework
of what counts as action, agency, movement, and behavior. But, as
Michael Hathaway shows, the world-making capacities of mushrooms
radically challenge this orthodoxy by revealing the lively dynamism
of all forms of life. The book tells the fascinating story of one
particularly prized species, the matsutake, and the astonishing
ways it is silently yet powerfully shaping worlds, from the Tibetan
plateau to the mushrooms’ final destination in Japan. Many
Tibetan and Yi people have dedicated their lives to picking and
selling this mushroom—a delicacy that drives a
multibillion-dollar global trade network and that still grows only
in the wild, despite scientists’ intensive efforts to cultivate
it in urban labs. But this is far from a simple story of humans
exploiting a passive, edible commodity. Rather, the book reveals
the complex, symbiotic ways that mushrooms, plants, humans, and
other animals interact. It explores how the world looks to the
mushrooms, as well as to the people who have grown rich harvesting
them. A surprise-filled journey into science and human culture,
this exciting and provocative book shows how fungi shape our planet
and our lives in strange, diverse, and often unimaginable ways.
General
| Imprint: |
Princeton University Press
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Release date: |
October 2023 |
| First published: |
2022 |
| Authors: |
Michael J. Hathaway
|
| Dimensions: |
203 x 133mm (L x W) |
| Pages: |
296 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-691-22590-6 |
| Categories: |
Books
|
| LSN: |
0-691-22590-7 |
| Barcode: |
9780691225906 |
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