Aromas of Asia : exchanges, histories, threats / edited by Hannah Gould and Gwyn McClelland.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gould, Hannah (Anthropologist), editor.

McClelland, Gwyn, editor.

Series:

Perspectives on sensory history.

Perspectives on sensory history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Odors--Social aspects--Asia--History.

Odors.

Smell--Social aspects--Asia--History.

Smell.

Odors in literature.

Smell in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

University Park, PA : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2023]

Summary:

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction : scents, sensory colonialism, and social worlds in Asia

On a trail of incense : Japan and olfactory thought

The shifting smellscape of early medieval China : Emperor Wu's strange aromatics

The poetics of incense in the lives of medieval Chinese officials

A whiff of Southeast Asia : tasting durian and kopi

The aroma of a place in the sunshine : breathing in Japanese history through the fiction of Endo¯ Shu¯saku

Words that smell : caste and odors in Hindi Dalit autobiographies

Love is in the air : a study of Johnnie To's blind detective

Pregnancy, childbirth, and the smell of vulnerability in Lombok, Indonesia

Harnessing the stenches of waste : human bodies as olfactory environmental sensors in contemporary China

The smell of a corpse : olfactory culture in a Singaporean funeral parlor.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-271-09617-9

0-271-09618-7

OCLC:

1397839868