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Sulek, Emilia Roza Trading Caterpillar Fungus in Tibet: When Economic Boom Hits Rural Area. Recent decades have seen the arrival of a cash economy in Golok as never before - fuelled by a trade in caterpillar fungus, a new "gold rush" of sorts. Through detailed observations, Sulek shows how money newly earned from the caterpillar fungus boom is not only being spent on consumer goods but is, in fact, "being used by the pastoralists to transform their region" (p. 19). [Extracted from the article]