Matsutake Worlds

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.

• List of IllustrationsForewordHannah LandeckerIntroduction: Elusive MatsutakeLieba Faier for the Matsutake Worlds Research GroupChapter 1. Euphoric Anomaly: Matsutake’s Elusive Elusiveness in 2010 JapanLieba FaierChapter 2. Elusive Fungus? Forms of Attraction in Multispecies World MakingMichael J. HathawayChapter 3. Tending to Suspension: Abstraction and Apparatuses of Atmospheric Attunement in Matsutake WorldsTimothy ChoyChapter 4. Matsutake, So Aromatic in Its AbsenceMiyako InoueChapter 5. Sensing Multispecies Entanglements: Koto as an ‘Ontology’ of LivingShiho SatsukaChapter 6. How Things Hold: A Diagram of Coordination in a Satoyama ForestElaine Gan and Anna TsingAfterword: Heeding Headless ThoughtsEduardo KohnIndex