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Aromas of Asia : Exchanges, Histories, Threats
Title
Aromas of Asia : Exchanges, Histories, Threats / edited by Hannah Gould and Gwyn McClelland.
ISBN
9780271096186
Publication
University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2023]
Manufacture
Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 0000
Copyright Notice Date
©[2023]
Physical Description
1 online resource.
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Summary
"A multidisciplinary collection of essays exploring the interconnections and disjunctures in Asian cultural histories of scent. Examines how scent functions as a category of social and moral boundary-marking and boundary-breaching within, between, and beyond Asian societies"-- Provided by publisher.
Variant and related titles
Project MUSE complete collection 2023.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
October 03, 2023
Series
Perspectives on sensory history
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction : scents, sensory colonialism, and social worlds in Asia / Gwyn McClelland and Hannah Gould
On a trail of incense : Japan and olfactory thought / Lorenzo Marinucci
The shifting smellscape of early medieval China : Emperor Wu's strange aromatics / Peter Romaskiewicz
The poetics of incense in the lives of medieval Chinese officials / Qian Jia
A whiff of Southeast Asia : tasting durian and kopi / Gaik Cheng Khoo and Jean Duruz
The aroma of a place in the sunshine : breathing in Japanese history through the fiction of Endō Shūsaku / Gwyn McClelland
Words that smell : caste and odors in Hindi Dalit autobiographies / Shivani Kapoor
Love is in the air : a study of Johnnie To's blind detective / Aubrey Tang
Pregnancy, childbirth, and the smell of vulnerability in Lombok, Indonesia / Saki Tanada
Harnessing the stenches of waste : human bodies as olfactory environmental sensors in contemporary China / Adam Liebman
The smell of a corpse : olfactory culture in a Singaporean funeral parlor / Ruth E. Toulson.
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Essays.
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