What a Mushroom Lives for: Matsutake and the Worlds They Make

by Michael J. Hathaway

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691225907
• ISBN13: 9780691225906
• Release Date: November 2023
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.2" x 7.9"