James Mchugh

Sandalwood and Carrion

Smell in Indian Religion and Culture

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

James McHugh offers the first comprehensive examination of the concepts and practices related to smell in pre-modern India. Drawing on a wide range of textual sources, from poetry to medical texts, he shows the deeply significant religious and cultural role of smell in India throughout the first millennium CE.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sinauer Associates Is an Imprint of Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Oktober 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 154mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 522g
• ISBN-13: 9780199916320
• ISBN-10: 0199916322
• Artikelnr.: 35331839

Autorenporträt

James McHugh is Assistant Professor of Religion, University of Southern California.

Inhaltsangabe

* Acknowledgments
* Preface
* Part One: Smells in Theory
* 1 INTRODUCTION
* 2 EARTH, WIND, FOUL and FRAGRANT: THE THEORY OF SMELLING and ODORS IN
MEDIEVAL SOUTH ASIA
* Part Two: Smells in the World
* 3 LOTUS, FISH, and COWS: THE SMELL-SCAPE OF TRADITIONAL SOUTH ASIA
* 4 FLOWERS and FISH IN THE MAH?BH?RATA
* Part Three: Smells in Practice
* 5 MOON JUICE and UPROAR: PERFUMERY TEXTS
* 6 ALLIES, ENEMIES, and YAK?A MUD: PERFUMES
* Part Four: Aromatic Materials
* 7 THE INCENSE TREES OF THE LAND OF EMERALDS: EXOTIC AROMATICS IN
MEDIEVAL SOUTH ASIA
* 8 SANDALWOOD: MERCHANTS, EXPERTISE and PROFIT
* Part Five: Smell and Religion
* 9 BOIS DES ÎSLES
* 10 THE TOILETTE OF THE GODS
* Epilogue
* Appendix SANSKRIT and PRAKRIT TEXTS ON PERFUME BLENDING and PERFUMERY
* Bibliography