The Smell Culture Reader

Herausgeber: Drobnick, Jim

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Produktbeschreibung

Smell is fundamental to experience but mired in paradox. Stigmatized as animalistic, it nonetheless feeds a vast fragrance and marketing industry. Considered ephemeral, scents have survived throughout the ages in a number of religious practices.

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Produktdetails

• Sensory Formations
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 456
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 154mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 682g
• ISBN-13: 9781845202132
• ISBN-10: 1845202139
• Artikelnr.: 21815170

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

* 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