{"product_id":"aromas-of-asia-exchanges-histories-threats-perspectives-on-sensory-history-9780271095417","title":"Aromas of Asia Exchanges Histories Threats","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eA 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003ci\u003eAromas of Asia\u003c\/i\u003e is very much at the cutting edge of the field. Many books on smell engage in a battle with the straw man of ‘smell-as-neglected’ and ‘the West as ocular-centric.’ This book has moved way beyond such simplicities, and through its varied methodologies and diverse topics we emerge with a number of fresh perspectives on smell in Asia.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—James McHugh,author of \u003ci\u003eSandalwood and Carrion: Smell in Indian Religion and Culture\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Illustrations\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Scents, Sensory Colonialism, and Social Worlds in Asia\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eGwyn McClelland and Hannah Gould\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart I: Poetics and Philosophies\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1. On a Trail of Incense: Japan and Olfactory Thought\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eLorenzo Marinucci\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2. The Shifting Smellscape of Early Medieval China: Emperor Wu’s Strange Aromatics\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePeter Romaskiewicz\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3. The Poetics of Incense in the Lives of Medieval Chinese Officials\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eQian Jia\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart II: Making Sensory Boundaries\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4. A Whiff of Southeast Asia: Tasting Durian and Kopi\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eGaik Cheng Khoo and Jean Duruz\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5. The Aroma of a Place in the Sunshine: Breathing in Japanese History Through the Fiction of Endō Shūsaku\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eGwyn McClelland\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e6. Words That Smell: Caste and Odors in Hindi Dalit Autobiographies\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eShivani Kapoor\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e7. Love Is in the Air: A Study of Johnnie To’s \u003ci\u003eBlind Detective\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAubrey Tang\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart III: Bodies–Life, Work, Death\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e8. Pregnancy, Childbirth, and the Smell of Vulnerability in Lombok, Indonesia\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSaki Tanada\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e9. Harnessing the Stenches of Waste: Human Bodies as Olfactory Environmental Sensors in Contemporary China\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAdam Liebman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e10. The Smell of a Corpse: Olfactory Culture in a Singaporean Funeral Parlor\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eRuth E. Toulson\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Contributors\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pennsylvania State University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400822333783,"sku":"9780271095417","price":81.56,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780271095417.jpg?v=1730471659","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/aromas-of-asia-exchanges-histories-threats-perspectives-on-sensory-history-9780271095417","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}