Here is a much-needed overview of what is arguably our most elusive sense. Sight and hearing have been the subject of numerous books, while the so-called "lower senses" have remained relatively unexplored despite powerful and complex social meanings. From hygiene to aromatherapy, the foul to the fragrant, smell is shown here to be much more than a physical act of perception.
Here is a much-needed overview of what is arguably our most elusive sense. Sight and hearing have been the subject of numerous books, while the so-called "lower senses" have remained relatively unexplored despite powerful and complex social meanings. From hygiene to aromatherapy, the foul to the fragrant, smell is shown here to be much more than a physical act of perception.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Jim Drobnick is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Manchester. He is the editor of Aural Cultures (2004), co-author of Museopathy (2002) and CounterPoses (2002), and is working on a book on smell in contemporary art.
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* Introduction OlfactocentrismJim Drobnick* Part I: Odorphobia * PrefaceJim Drobnick* Polish and Deodorize: Paving the City in Late Eighteenth-Century FranceRodolphe el-Khoury California College of the Arts USA* The Sociology of OdorsGale Largey Mansfield University USA and Rod Watson University of Manchester UK* Immigrant Lives and the Politics of Olfaction in the Global CityMartin F. Manalansan IV University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign USA* Offensive BodiesAlan Hyde Rutgers University School of Law at Newark USA* Base Notes: Odor Breath and Moral Contagion in IlahitaDonald Tuzin University of California San Diego USA* Olfactory-Triggered Panic Attacks Among Khmer RefugeesDevon E. Hinton Massachusetts General Hospital Harvard Medical School USA Vuth Pich Arbour Counseling Center and the Massachusetts Department of Mental Health USA Dara Chhean University of Massachusetts Lowell USA and Mark H. Pollack Massachusetts General Hospital USA* Part II: Toposmia * PrefaceJim Drobnick* SmellscapeJ. Douglas Porteous University of Victoria British Columbia Canada* Vagueness Gridlocked: A Map of the Smells of New YorkEleanor Margolies writer and independent scholar* The Broken Cycle: Smell in a Bangkok LaneErik Cohen The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Israel* Fragrant Signals and Festive Spaces in EurasiaLucienne A. Roubin (author deceased)* The Stench of PowerHans J. Rindisbacher Pomona College USA* Environmental FragrancingPeter Damian and Kate Damian both authors and independent scholars* Part III: Flaireurs * PrefaceJim Drobnick* The New Calculus of Olfactory PleasureAlain Corbin the Sorbonne Paris* Sense and SensibilityHelen Keller author deceased* The Dog Beneath the SkinOliver Sacks author and neurologist independent scholar* Nostalgia the Odors of Childhood and SocietyAlan R. Hirsch Smell and Taste Treatment and Research Foundation in Chicago USA* I Know What I Like: Understanding Odor PreferencesRachel S. Herz Brown University USA* Part IV: Perfume * PrefaceJim Drobnick* Another MemoryMarcel Proust author deceased* Perfumed ObsessionMandy Aftel author perfumer and independent scholar* Accords and Discords: Perfume ReviewsLuca Turin CTO of the odorant design firm Flexitral* Perfumeros and the Sacred Use of Fragrance in Amazonian ShamanismJohn J. Steele author and independent scholar* The Dialectic of 'Enscentment': Patrick Sueskind's 'Perfume' as Critical History of Enlightenment CultureRichard T. Gray University of Washington USA* Part V: Scentsuality * PrefaceJim Drobnick* The Eros and Thanatos of ScentsRichard Stamelman Williams College USA* Odor di Femina: Though You May Not See Her You Can Certainly Smell HerCarol Mavor University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill USA* 'The Roots of the Orchis the Iuli of Chesnuts': The Odor of Male SolitudeChristopher Looby University of California Los Angeles USA* Queer Smells: Fragrances of Late Capitalism or Scents of Subversion?Mark Graham Stockholm University Sweden* In Noritoshi Hirakawas Garden of NirvanaJennifer Fisher York University Canada and Jim Drobnick* Part VI: Volatile Art * PrefaceJim Drobnick* A Wisp of Smoke: Scent and Character in The Tale of GenjiAileen Gatten University of Michigan USA* Eating Nothing: Cooking Aromas in Art and CultureJim Drobnick University of Manchester Canada* Self-Portrait in Scent: Sketch #1Clara Ursitti Artist UK* Digital Scratch and Virtual Sniff: Simulating ScentsMark W.D. Paterson University of the West of England UK* Part VII: Sublime Essences * PrefaceJim Drobnick* The Breath of God: Sacred Histories of ScentConstance Classen author and independent scholar* Bodies Odors and Perfumes in Arab-Muslim SocietiesFrancoise Aubaile-Sallenave CNRS - Musee National d'Histoire Naturelle Paris France* Magic Perfume Dream . . .Alfred Gell author deceased* The Scent of Memory in Hindu South IndiaDavid Shulman The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Israel* Olfactory After-Death Communications William Guggenheim and Judith Guggenheim both independent scholars
* Introduction OlfactocentrismJim Drobnick* Part I: Odorphobia * PrefaceJim Drobnick* Polish and Deodorize: Paving the City in Late Eighteenth-Century FranceRodolphe el-Khoury California College of the Arts USA* The Sociology of OdorsGale Largey Mansfield University USA and Rod Watson University of Manchester UK* Immigrant Lives and the Politics of Olfaction in the Global CityMartin F. Manalansan IV University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign USA* Offensive BodiesAlan Hyde Rutgers University School of Law at Newark USA* Base Notes: Odor Breath and Moral Contagion in IlahitaDonald Tuzin University of California San Diego USA* Olfactory-Triggered Panic Attacks Among Khmer RefugeesDevon E. Hinton Massachusetts General Hospital Harvard Medical School USA Vuth Pich Arbour Counseling Center and the Massachusetts Department of Mental Health USA Dara Chhean University of Massachusetts Lowell USA and Mark H. Pollack Massachusetts General Hospital USA* Part II: Toposmia * PrefaceJim Drobnick* SmellscapeJ. Douglas Porteous University of Victoria British Columbia Canada* Vagueness Gridlocked: A Map of the Smells of New YorkEleanor Margolies writer and independent scholar* The Broken Cycle: Smell in a Bangkok LaneErik Cohen The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Israel* Fragrant Signals and Festive Spaces in EurasiaLucienne A. Roubin (author deceased)* The Stench of PowerHans J. Rindisbacher Pomona College USA* Environmental FragrancingPeter Damian and Kate Damian both authors and independent scholars* Part III: Flaireurs * PrefaceJim Drobnick* The New Calculus of Olfactory PleasureAlain Corbin the Sorbonne Paris* Sense and SensibilityHelen Keller author deceased* The Dog Beneath the SkinOliver Sacks author and neurologist independent scholar* Nostalgia the Odors of Childhood and SocietyAlan R. Hirsch Smell and Taste Treatment and Research Foundation in Chicago USA* I Know What I Like: Understanding Odor PreferencesRachel S. Herz Brown University USA* Part IV: Perfume * PrefaceJim Drobnick* Another MemoryMarcel Proust author deceased* Perfumed ObsessionMandy Aftel author perfumer and independent scholar* Accords and Discords: Perfume ReviewsLuca Turin CTO of the odorant design firm Flexitral* Perfumeros and the Sacred Use of Fragrance in Amazonian ShamanismJohn J. Steele author and independent scholar* The Dialectic of 'Enscentment': Patrick Sueskind's 'Perfume' as Critical History of Enlightenment CultureRichard T. Gray University of Washington USA* Part V: Scentsuality * PrefaceJim Drobnick* The Eros and Thanatos of ScentsRichard Stamelman Williams College USA* Odor di Femina: Though You May Not See Her You Can Certainly Smell HerCarol Mavor University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill USA* 'The Roots of the Orchis the Iuli of Chesnuts': The Odor of Male SolitudeChristopher Looby University of California Los Angeles USA* Queer Smells: Fragrances of Late Capitalism or Scents of Subversion?Mark Graham Stockholm University Sweden* In Noritoshi Hirakawas Garden of NirvanaJennifer Fisher York University Canada and Jim Drobnick* Part VI: Volatile Art * PrefaceJim Drobnick* A Wisp of Smoke: Scent and Character in The Tale of GenjiAileen Gatten University of Michigan USA* Eating Nothing: Cooking Aromas in Art and CultureJim Drobnick University of Manchester Canada* Self-Portrait in Scent: Sketch #1Clara Ursitti Artist UK* Digital Scratch and Virtual Sniff: Simulating ScentsMark W.D. Paterson University of the West of England UK* Part VII: Sublime Essences * PrefaceJim Drobnick* The Breath of God: Sacred Histories of ScentConstance Classen author and independent scholar* Bodies Odors and Perfumes in Arab-Muslim SocietiesFrancoise Aubaile-Sallenave CNRS - Musee National d'Histoire Naturelle Paris France* Magic Perfume Dream . . .Alfred Gell author deceased* The Scent of Memory in Hindu South IndiaDavid Shulman The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Israel* Olfactory After-Death Communications William Guggenheim and Judith Guggenheim both independent scholars
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