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| Sandalwood and Carrion: Smell in Indian Religion and Culture | ||
| 作者 | Mchugh, James (著) |
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| 出版日期 | 2012.10.16 |
| 頁次 | 352 |
| 出版者 | Oxford University Press |
| 出版者網址 | https://global.oup.com/ |
| 出版地 | New York |
| 資料類型 | 書籍=Book |
| 使用語言 | 英文=English |
| 關鍵詞 | Odors India=Odeurs Inde; Psychology; Rites and ceremonies India; Smell Religious aspects; India Religion; Odorat=Odors |
| 摘要 | 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 significant religious and cultural role of smell in India throughout the first millennium CE. McHugh describes the arts of perfumery developed in royal courts, temples, and monasteries, which were connected to a trade in exotic aromatics. Through their transformative nature, perfumes played an important part in every aspect of Indian life from seduction to diplomacy and religion. The aesthetics of smell dictated many of the materials, practices, and ceremonies associated with India's religious culture. McHugh shows how religious discourses on the purpose of life emphasized the pleasures of the senses, including olfactory experience, as valid ends in themselves. Fragrances and stenches were analogous to certain values, aesthetic or ethical, and in a system where karmic results often had a sensory impact-where evil literally stank-the ethical and aesthetic became difficult to distinguish. Through the study of smell, McHugh strengthens our understanding of the vital connection between the theological and the physical world. Sandalwood and Carrion explores smell in pre-modern India from many perspectives, covering such topics as philosophical accounts of smell perception, odors in literature, the history of perfumery in India, the significance of sandalwood in Buddhism, and the divine offering of perfume to the gods. |
| 目次 | Introduction Earth, wind, foul and fragrant: the theory of smelling and odors in medieval South Asia Lotus, fish, and cows: the smell-scape of traditional South Asia Flowers and fish in the Mahabharata Moon juice and uproar: perfumery texts Allies, enemies, and Yaksa mud: perfumes The incense trees of the land of emeralds: exotic aromatics in medieval South Asia Sandalwood: merchants, expertise and profit Bois des îsles The toilette of the gods |
| ISBN | 0199916322; 9780199916320 |
| 點閱次數 | 373 |
| 建檔日期 | 2022.10.11 |
| 更新日期 | 2022.10.11 |
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