Gordon Wasson’s disgust at his wife Valentina Pavlovna’s performance of this activity on their honeymoon is cited as an origin story for a subfield of anthropology. Each fall, the region of Dzūkija (ZOO-key-yah) becomes a hotspot for this activity in Lithuania, where the bolete is favored. Practitioners of this activity prize David Arora’s guide All That the Rain Promises, and More… and disparage uninteresting objects as LBMs. Ethnic Hmong performing this activity in “Open Ticket, (*) Oregon” are followed in a multispecies ethnography about “the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins,” written by Anna Tsing. Inept performers of this field activity risk being poisoned by Amanita. Matsutakes, morels, and truffles are sought in, for 10 points, what mycological field activity? ■END■
ANSWER: mushroom foraging [accept mushrooming; accept matsutake foraging or truffle foraging; accept equivalent terms such as hunting or picking in place of “foraging”] (The Wassons are the founders of ethnomycology. The Anna Tsing book is The Mushroom at the End of the World.)
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