An edition of The smell culture reader
(2006)
The smell culture reader
English ed.
by Jim Drobnick
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Table of 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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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