The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins (51 page)

racial profiling,
253

raking,
222
,
247
–
48
,
260

raw materials,
62
–
63

Rayner, Alan,
46
–
47

red pine.
See
Japanese red pine

refugees, political vs. economic,
93

resurgence,
179

Richardson, David,
Ecology and Biogeography of Pinus
,
168

Robbins, William,
195
,
210

ruins: creation of,
6
; industrial forest,
205
–
13
; vitality of,
6
,
40
–
41

salvage: ambivalence of,
131
; defined,
63
; violence associated with,
63
,
64
; in Yunnan matsutake trade,
273
–
74

salvage accumulation: capitalist,
63
–
66
,
134
,
301n2
; defined,
296n3
; in matsutake trade,
128
; in supply chains,
63
–
66
,
110

salvage rhythms,
131
–
32
,
134

Sarawak,
315n24

satoyama: defined,
151
–
52
; revitalization of,
151
–
52
,
160
,
162
–
63
,
180
–
81
,
220
,
258
–
64
,
281
; social and personal enrichment fostered by,
261
,
263
,
281
.
See also
peasant landscapes

Satsuka, Shiho,
62
,
112
,
124
,
217
,
228
,
258
,
281
,
287

scalability: in accounting,
42
–
43
; emphasis on,
40
; expansion and,
38
–
40
; failures and ruins of,
38
,
40
–
42
; in inventory management,
64
; meanings of,
38
; nonscalability in relation to,
42
–
43
; obstacles to,
142
; plantations and,
38
–
40
,
294n2
; of science,
221
; in species reproduction,
140
–
43
,
304n19

scale,
37
–
38

scholarship,
285
–
86

science: machinic character of,
217
; matsutake,
218
–
25
,
287
,
317n19
; narrative ignored in,
37
,
159
; parochial character of,
218
–
19
; patches in,
218
,
225
,
227
; role of description in,
221
; in satoyama revitalization,
263
; scalability of,
221
; spores as model for,
227
–
28
; as translation,
217
–
18
,
287

seasonal enclosure,
270

second nature,
viii

secularization,
103

self-containment,
28
,
33
–
34
,
140
–
41

self-interest,
28

selfish gene,
28
,
140

shareholders’ revolution,
116

Shaw, Rosalind,
161

shiros,
171
,
219
–
20
,
227
,
237
–
38
,
316n9

Showers, Kate,
159

single nucleotide polymorphisms,
236

Smalley, William,
32

smell: emotions and memories evoked by,
48
–
52
; indeterminacy and,
46
; of matsutake,
2
,
6
,
8
,
14
,
45
–
48
,
51
–
52

Southeast Asian Americans: assimilation of,
101
; attitudes of, toward the government,
78
; cultural persistence among,
103
; differences among,
102
; discrimination against,
74
,
78
; Japanese Americans compared to,
99
–
106
; livelihood strategies of,
101
–
3
,
106
; matsutake foragers,
18
,
73
–
74
,
105
.
See also individual groups

speciation,
228
–
29
,
233
–
36

species: classification of,
229
–
32
; of matsutake,
8
,
51
,
229
–
34
,
291n11
,
291n12
; traditional evolutionary understanding of,
139
–
43

spores,
227
–
28
,
234
,
237
–
39

spotted owls,
18

squid,
141

Stengers, Isabelle,
305n13

stories.
See
narratives/stories

Strathern, Marilyn,
293n10

sugarcane,
39

sugi (Japanese cedar,
Cryptomeria japonica
),
183
–
84
,
209
–
11
,
260

sukiyaki,
97
,
186
,
258

supermarkets,
124

supply chains: characteristics of,
61
–
62
; defined,
296n1
; global,
109
–
10
,
117
–
18
; Japanese model of,
113
–
15
; matsutake,
118
; Nike model of,
118
; roots of,
113
; salvage accumulation through,
63
–
66
,
110
; supply chains as means of,
70
; translation through,
70
; U.S. use of,
116
.
See also
commodity chains

survival: history embodied in,
33
–
34
; individual vs. collective,
27
–
29
; narrative
as means of,
34
.
See also
collaborative survival

Suzuki, Kazuo,
220
–
21
,
231
,
279

swidden,
172

symbiopoiesis,
142

Takeuchi, Kazuhiko,
186

termites,
143
–
44

third nature,
viii

ticks,
156

timber industry.
See
logging and timber

industry time, varieties of,
21

trade.
See
matsutake trade

trading, as translation,
112

trading companies,
113
–
15

traditionalism,
106

transformation: disregard for,
28
; in encounters,
20
,
28
–
29
,
46
–
47

translation: capitalism and,
62
,
133
,
301n2
; of commodities and gifts,
123
–
28
; defined,
315n1
; middlemen as means of,
66
; mishaps in,
217
; science as,
217
–
18
,
287
; trading as,
112

trash,
247

trees: fungi and,
138
–
39
,
174
–
75
,
201
; history making of,
168
,
175
–
76
; matsutake and,
195
.
See also
forests

Tricholoma caligatum
,
291n11

Tricholoma magnivelare
,
8
,
51
,
230
–
31
,
233
,
235
,
291n12

Tricholoma matsutake
,
8
,
51
,
230
–
31
,
235

Tricholoma nauseosum
,
51

trust,
272

Ueda, Koji,
48

Uexküll, Jakob von,
156
,
158
,
304n5

unintentional design,
152
,
162

United States: forest management in,
162
,
207
–
11
,
259
; freedom in,
93
–
94
; Japanese economic encounters with,
109
–
19
; matsutake science in,
218
–
19
,
221
–
23
,
317n19
; precarity in,
98

universal product codes (UPCs),
64

Uriuda, Sanou,
97
–
99

U.S. Forest Service: environmental goals of,
201
; financial status of,
41
,
211
; fire policies of,
30
,
200
–
201
,
207
–
8
; matsutake research and policies of,
13
,
73
–
74
,
105
,
201
–
2
,
221
–
22
,
224
,
278
; policies of,
29
–
30
,
41
,
79
,
92
,
212
,
247
,
253
–
54
,
311n3
; whites’ attitudes toward,
194

utilitarianism,
40

Vaario, Lu-Min,
279
–
80

Vancouver,
67

Vang, Chai Soua,
90

vernacular knowledge,
159
,
161
,
219
,
220
,
263

Verran, Helen,
50
,
295n8

vertical keiretsu,
115

vulnerability, in precarity,
20
,
29

Wal-Mart,
64
,
78

war, matsutake foragers as survivors of,
85
–
94

wasps (
Asobara tabida
),
141

Weber, Max,
140

welfare,
101
–
2

whites: attitudes of, toward Southeast Asian Americans,
33
,
73
,
106
; attitudes of, toward the government,
78
,
193
–
94
; frontier romanticism of,
86
; matsutake foragers,
68
,
74
,
76
,
278
; war experiences of,
86
–
87

woodlands.
See
forests
;
peasant landscapes

world-making: concept of,
21
–
22
; fungal,
138
–
39
; ontologies compared to,
292n7
; unintentional design in,
152
.
See also
narratives/stories

Xu Jianping,
227
,
234
,
236

Yamaguchi Sodo,
9

Yamanaka, Katsuji,
233
–
34

Yanagisako, Sylvia,
302n3

Yang Huiling,
224
–
25

yen,
111
,
116
–
17

Yin Shaoting,
310n17

Yolngu,
50
,
295n8

Yoshimura, Fumihiko,
186

Yunnan, China.
See
China

zaibatsu (conglomerates),
112
–
13

Zeigle, Tim,
90