Question

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 (15[1])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 (10[1])Tsing. (10[1])Inept performers of this field activity risk being poisoned by Amanita. Matsutakes, morels, and truffles are sought in, for 10 points, what mycological field (10[1])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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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
coby tranWhat is BH! And you are asking me? BHSUCornell C++6215
Joel MilesThe Enrique Trastamara Military Academy BDr. Christopher Manners, MD – Samarra, Iraq9210
Geoffrey ChenHutto HipposRollin in from Sturgis, The Cheyne Gang9310
Ash SeetharamanHouston and FriendsCornell B-11710

Summary

2023 BHSU @ Maryland03/11/2023Y3100%0%67%110.33
2023 BHSU @ Berkeley03/18/2023Y3100%33%0%88.00
2023 BHSU @ Yale04/08/2023Y3100%33%0%70.00
2023 BHSU Online04/15/2023Y4100%25%0%91.00
2023 BHSU @ Sheffield04/15/2023Y2100%0%0%103.00
2023 BHSU @ Waterloo04/15/2023Y3100%33%33%88.33