[Lapg] Invitation: Los Angeles Mycological Society (LAMS)- November 19th Monthly Meeting Mark the Date!

[David Kahn]

** Free Event*
Topic: **Mushroom Tales from Russia and Alaska*

*Dr. Sveta Yamin-Pasternak, PhD, is a Postdoctoral Fellow in Polar 
Regions Research at the National Science Foundation and Visiting 
Scholar, Department of Anthropology, Johns Hopkins University.*

*Sveta Yamin-Pasternak is originally from Belarus, but her interest in 
the peoples of the Arctic brought her to Fairbanks, Alaska where she 
pursued a PhD degree in cultural anthropology. Early in her studies, she 
took note of the fact that, while sharing a common array of subsistence 
foods, the indigenous residents of northern Russia and Alaska have 
strikingly contrasting attitudes toward mushrooms. Searching for 
possible explanations fueled her fascination with ethnomycology, which 
has become the main subject of her research. Her dissertation, entitled 
“How the Devils Went Deaf: Ethnomycology, Cuisine, and Perception of 
Landscape in the Russian North,” focuses on the peoples of the Bering 
Strait area, documenting their folklore, beliefs, and practices 
associated with wild mushrooms.
Bring your mushroom find to be ID'd it may be edible or medicinal!
**Refreshments will be served*

*Where: The Museum of Natural History Los Angeles County
900 Exposition Blvd. , Los Angeles, CA - Times Mirror Room
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*When: 8:00 PM

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*Directions: www.lamushrooms.org
More Info: David Kahn 323 667 1330
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