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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

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