Verlag:
The Pennsylvania State University Press, University Park, Pennsylvania
"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,...
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Centre for Asian and Transcultural Studies (CATS), Abteilung Südasien
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180 kul 2024/181
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"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"--
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.
