- Bib ID:
- 10010451
- Format:
- Book
- Description:
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- University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2023]
- ©2023
- 251 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 9780271095417 ((hardback))
- 0271095415
- Series:
- Perspectives on sensory history.
- Summary:
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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"--
- Full contents:
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- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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