Description:
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.
Brief description:
Michael J. Hathaway is an Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, British Columbia. His book, Environmental Winds: Making the Global in Southwest China (2013) won the Cecil B. Currey Book Prize for the best book on development studies.