Aromas of Asia - Exchanges, Histories, Threats

"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"--

About the author

Hannah Gould is Melbourne Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Melbourne. She is the author of When Death Falls Apart: Making and Unmaking the Necromaterial Traditions of Contemporary Japan.Gwyn McClelland is Senior Lecturer at the University of New England, Australia. He is the author of Dangerous Memory in Nagasaki: Prayers, Protests and Catholic Survivor Narratives.

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.

Product details

• Assisted by: Hannah Gould (Editor), Hannah (The University of Melbourne) Gould (Editor), Gould Hannah (Editor), Gwyn McClelland (Editor), Gwyn (University of New England) McClelland (Editor)
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 05.09.2023
• EAN: 9780271095417
• ISBN: 978-0-271-09541-7
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 24 mm
• Weight: 481 g
• Illustrations: Raster,schwarz-weiss
• Series: Perspectives on Sensory History
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; Cultural Studies, HISTORY / Asia / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, HISTORY / Asia / China, HISTORY / Asia / Japan, Social and cultural anthropology, Asian History, HISTORY / Asia / South / India