Aromas of Asia : exchanges, histories, threats /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Gould, Hannah (Anthropologist) (Editor), McClelland, Gwyn (Editor)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2023]
Series:	Perspectives on sensory history.
Subjects:	Odors > Social aspects > Asia > History. Smell > Social aspects > Asia > History. Odors in literature. Smell in literature. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

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.