Ethnomycology
The International Encyclopedia of Anthropology September 5, 2018 Sveta Yamin‐pasternak, Igor Pasternak 5 citations
Ethnomycology examines the roles of fungi in human social experience, spanning cultural domains and crossing humanities, fine arts, and social and natural sciences. Its early ties to cultural anthropology stem from exchanges between Claude Lévi-Strauss and R. Gordon Wasson from the 1950s to the 1980s. Since then, research on behaviors, uses, cultural transitions, and social relationships related to fungi has revealed diverse ideas about human-fungi engagements.