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Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing's The Mushroom at the End of the World presented a sociological study of matsutake mushroom foraging, highlighting scarcity and human networks.
And the last book was The Mushroom at the End of the World, The Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins, which is by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing. And this is an academic book, but it's almost a first person...
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Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing's The Mushroom at the End of the World presented a sociological study of matsutake mushroom foraging, highlighting scarcity and human networks.
And the last book was The Mushroom at the End of the World, The Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins, which is by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing. And this is an academic book, but it's almost a first person sociology of mushroom foraging, particularly Matsutake mushrooms. And then they're sold and dispersed across the world through these very strange human to human chains of economic and social value that Anna records.