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OverviewSmells are distinct and ubiquitous. They envelope us, enter our bodies, and emanate from us. Yet, they remain relegated to the background of everyday life experiences. This book attempts to highlight the social salience of smell in social actors' day-to-day encounters where issues involving morality and social othering, presentation of self, and personhood intertwine with analyses of smell as a social conduit. These encounters include the experiences of anosmic individuals, which capture non-olfactive social worlds that are rarely addressed hitherto. Further deliberations on olfaction in relation to social memberships of race, class, and gender, elucidate upon social boundaries of inclusion and exclusion constructed vis-a-vis smell as a social marker. Olfactive adjudications of race and class are then expanded upon through the author's discussion of various smellscapes in the context of Singapore. Olfaction, sanitary discipline, and olfactive simulacra are also expounded upon, thereby underscoring the control and manipulation of scents in the contexts of modernity and postmodernity. Smells therefore offer insights into the workings of social relations and power structures in society.By predicating analyses on empirical data procured from Singapore, along with case studies from the region and beyond, this study draws much needed attention on smell which has been a neglected sense in the wider literature. In addition, the concurrent employment of the other senses will also be explicated, which therefore demonstrates the social character of smell and other sensory modalities through historical and contemporary milieux. This book is a pioneering effort in offering sociocultural interpretations of scents based on primary and secondary data analysed using the trajectory of sociology of everyday life. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Kelvin E. Y. LowPublisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing Imprint: Cambridge Scholars Publishing Edition: Unabridged edition Weight: 0.236kg ISBN: 9781443802154ISBN 10: 1443802158 Pages: 205 Publication Date: 21 January 2009 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsThe author takes us on an odouriferous journey through current scholarship and fascinating ethnography of the meaning of smell in society. More than a contribution to current interest in exploring cross-cultural scent-scapes , Kelvin E.Y. Low provides an argument for the centrality of smell to the key processes of identity formation and differentiation, thus placing the senses at the heart of contemporary social science. - David Sutton, author of Remembrance of Repasts: An Anthropology of Food and Memory (2001); Associate Professor of Sociocultural Anthropology, Southern Illinois University Smell matters centrally to the construction of others and presentation of self in everyday life in Singapore. Kelvin Low brings a highly refined and discerning nose to bear on the social dynamics of scents and stenches in this bustling Asian capital. By breaking the smell barrier, he adds an important new chapter to the sociology of the senses. This book will also be of key interest to geographers for its olfactory cartography of Singapore. - David Howes, author of Sensual Relations and co-author of Aroma: The Cultural History of Smell teaches in the Department of Anthropology, Concordia University, Montreal. Author InformationKelvin E.Y. Low is a teaching member of the Department of Sociology at the National University of Singapore. His research interests include social memory and historiography, sociology of the senses and everyday life, and migration and transnationalism. Kelvin has published articles on the senses in internationally-refereed journals and is preparing a co-edited book based on the senses in Asian contexts. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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