Originally published: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1998.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-315) and index.
1. Being in Nature -- 2. Meaningful Mushrooms -- 3. Sharing the Woods -- 4. Talking Wild -- 5. Organizing Naturalists -- 6. Fungus and Its Publics -- 7. Naturework and the Taming of the Wild.
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"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."--Jacket.