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Title

The smell culture reader / edited by Jim Drobnick.

Publication

Oxford ; New York : Berg, 2006.

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Additional Authors

Drobnick, Jim.

Description

xii, 442 p.; 25 cm.

Series Statement

Sensory formations, 1741-4725

Uniform Title

Sensory formations series.

Subject

• Smell
• Senses and sensation
• Odorat
• Sens et sensations

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction: Olfactorocentrism / Jim Drobnick -- PART I: ODORPHOBIA: Polish and deodorize: paving the city in the late Eighteenth-Century France / Rodolphe el-Khoury -- The sociology of odors / Gale Largey and Rod Watson -- Immigrant lives and the politics of olfaction in the global city / Martin F. Manalansan IV -- Offensive bodies / Alan Hyde -- Base notes: odor, breath, and moral contagion in Ilahita / Donald Tuzin -- Olfactory-triggered panic attacks among Khmer refugees / Devon E. Hinton, Vuth Pich, Dara Chhean and Mark H. Pollack -- PART II: TOPOSMIA : Smellscape / J. Douglas Porteous -- Vagueness gridlocked: a map of the smells of New York / Eleanor Margolies -- The broken cycle: smell in a Bangkok lane / Erik Cohen -- Fragrant signals and festive spaces in Eurasia / Lucienne A. Roubin -- The stench of power / Hans J. Rindisbacher -- Environmental fragrancing / Peter Damian and Kate Damian -- PART III: FLATREURS: The new calculus of olfactory pleasure / Alain Corbin -- Sense and sensibility / Helen Keller -- The dog beneath the skin / Oliver Sacks -- Nostalgia, the odors of childhood and society / Alan R. Hirsch -- I know what I like: understanding odor preferences / Rachel S. Herz -- PARF IV: PERFUME: Another memory / Marcel Proust -- Perfumed obsession / Mandy Aftel -- Accords and discords: perfume reviews / Luca Turin -- Perfumeros and the sacred use of fragrance in Amazonian shamanism / John J. Steele -- The dialectic of "ensentment": Patrick Suskind's Perfume as a critical history of Enlightenment culture / Richard T. Gray -- PART V: SCENTSUALITY: The eros--and thanatos--of scents / Richard H. Stamelman -- Oder di femina: though you may not see her, you can certainly smell her / Carol Mavor -- "The roots of the Orchis, the Iuli of chestnuts": the odor of male solitude / Christopher Looby -- Queer smells: fragrances of late capitalism or scents of subversion? / Mark Graham -- In Noritoshi Hirakawa's Garden of Nirvana / Jennifer Fisher and Jim Drobnick -- PART VI: VOLATILE ART: A wisp of smoke: scent and character in The Tale of Genji / Aileen Gatten -- Eating nothing: cooking aromas in art and culture / Jim Drobnick -- Self-portrait in scent: sketch #1 / Clara Ursitti -- Digital scratch and virtual sniff: stimulating scents / Mark W.D. Paterson -- PART VII: SUBLIME ESSENCES: The breath of God" sacred histories of scent / Constance Classen -- Bodies, odors and perfumes in Arab-Muslim societies / Francoise Aubaile-Sallenave -- Magic, perfume, dream... / Alfred Gell -- The scent of memory in Hindu South India / David Shulman -- Olfactory after-death communications / William Guggenheim and Judith Guggenheim.

Call Number

JFE 07-8124

ISBN

• 1845202139 (pbk.)
• 9781845202132 (pbk.)
• 1845202120 (hardback)
• 9781845202125 (hardback)

LCCN

2006009887

OCLC

64315103

Title

The smell culture reader / edited by Jim Drobnick.

Imprint

Oxford ; New York : Berg, 2006.

Edition

English ed.

Series

Sensory formations, 1741-4725

Sensory formations series.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Contributor biographical information

Publisher description

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Added Author

Drobnick, Jim.

Research Call Number

JFE 07-8124