What a Mushroom Lives For
Matsutake and the Worlds They Make
$45.16
- Hardcover
296 pages
- Release Date
14 August 2022
Summary
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 behaviour. 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 matsutak…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780691225883 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0691225885 |
| Author: | Michael J. Hathaway |
| Publisher: | Princeton University Press |
| Imprint: | Princeton University Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 296 |
| Release Date: | 14 August 2022 |
| Weight: | 610g |
| Dimensions: | 156mm x 235mm |
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Critics Review
“Nominee for the James Beard Media Award in Reference, History, and Scholarship”
“Winner of the Jim Deva Prize for Writing that Provokes, BC and Yukon Book Prizes”
“Winner of the Labrecque-Lee Book Prize, Canadian Anthropology Society”
“Few readers, I suspect, have ever considered fungi to be sentient, but Michael Hathaway … argues that mushrooms (as well as plants and other organisms widely considered as passive automatons), though not exactly conscious, nevertheless ‘engage their surroundings in a dynamic way.’ … The takeaway, Hathaway advises, should at least be a renewed appreciation of the interconnectedness of all forms of life, flora, fauna, and ‘funga,’ and a realization that the world is ‘made and remade through relationships.’”—Laurence A. Marschall, Natural History
“This book will be valuable to social scientists and ecologists, and essential to philosophers of human-fungi relationships.” * Choice *
Michael J. Hathaway
Michael J. Hathaway is professor of anthropology at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada, and the author of the award-winning Environmental Winds: Making the Global in Southwest China. He is a member of the Matsutake Worlds Research Group.
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