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:
Lieba Faier is an Associate Professor in Geography at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her first book is Intimate Encounters: Filipina Women and the Remaking of Rural Japan (2009), and she has published in American Ethnologist, Cultural Anthropology, Annual Review of Anthropology, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, and Environment and Planning A.