The smell culture reader
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
xii, 442 pages ; 25 cm.
9781845202132, 9781845202125, 1845202139, 1845202120
64315103
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