Morel Tales

The Culture of Mushrooming

Dados Bibliográficos

ID11098569
AutoresRobert Bogdan (autor correspondente)
Ano1999
Volume28
Fascículo3
Páginas325
Data de publicação1999-05-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoREVIEW
PeriódicoContemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0094-3061 • E-ISSN: 1939-8638
EditoraSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2307/2654175
OpenAlexW2127555140
IdiomaEN

Drawing on the observations of three years spent in the company of dedicated amateur mushroomers and professional mycologists, Gary Alan Fine explores the ways in which Americans attempt to give meaning to the natural world, while providing an eye-opening look inside the cultures they construct around its study and appreciation. A landmark work of environmental sociology, Morel Tales is an engaging and instructive examination of a thriving community, one with its own language, ceremonies, jokes, narratives, rivalries, and social codes. Fine also provides a detailed discussion of the American phenomenon he calls naturework - that is, culturally constructing one's own place in the natural environment through communities with shared systems of assigned meaning.Naturework, Fine observes, is something we all do on some level - not only birders, butterfly collectors, rock hounds, hunters, hikers, campers, and outdoor enthusiasts, but all of us who construct community through narrative and nature through culture

Sociology · American Environmental and Regional History · Animal and Plant Science Education · Environmental Philosophy and Ethics