DIDI's MAY READING LIST (Critical Olfactory Theory & Olfactory Studies)
MAY READING LIST
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Credits: 'The Travelling Companions' by Augustus Leopold Egg (1862); oil on canvas, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery
ACADEMIC ARTICLES:
Cockayne , J L 2019 , Smelling God : olfaction as religious experience . in B Hereth & K Timpe (eds) , The Lost Sheep in Philosophy of Religion : New Perspectives on Disability, Gender, Race, and Animals . vol. Routledge , Routledge Studies in the Philosophy of Religion , pp. 97-119 . https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429022531-5
Papantoniou G., K. Vionis A.; (2020) Popular Religion and Material Responses to Pandemic: The Christian Cult of the Epitaphios during the COVID-19 Crisis in Greece and Cyprus, Ethnoarchaeology, 12:2, 85-117, DOI: 10.1080/19442890.2021.1896129
Kallio-Seppä, T., Tranberg, A. The Materiality of Odors: Experiencing Church Burials and the Urban Environment in Early Modern Northern Sweden. Hist Arch 55, 65–81 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s41636-020-00264-2
Sarah Pink (2013) Engaging the Senses in Ethnographic Practice, The Senses and Society, 8:3, 261-267, DOI: 10.2752/174589313X13712175020433
V. Bochicchio, C. Scandurra, R. Vitelli, P. Valerio, S. dell’Orco and N. M. Maldonato, "Epistemology of Olfaction : Emotion, Cognition, and Decision Making," 2018 9th IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Infocommunications (CogInfoCom), 2018, pp. 000267-000270, doi: 10.1109/CogInfoCom.2018.8639940.
Alex Rhys-Taylor (2013) The essences of multiculture: a sensory exploration of an inner-city street market, Identities, 20:4, 393-406, DOI: 10.1080/1070289X.2013.822380
Speed, L.J., Atkinson, H., Wnuk, E. and Majid, A. (2021), The Sound of Smell: Associating Odor Valence With Disgust Sounds. Cognitive Science, 45: e12980. https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.12980
Sylvain Delplanque, Didier Grandjean, Christelle Chrea, Laurence Aymard, Isabelle Cayeux, Bénédicte Le Calvé, Maria Inés Velazco, Klaus R. Scherer, David Sander, Emotional Processing of Odors: Evidence for a Nonlinear Relation between Pleasantness and Familiarity Evaluations, Chemical Senses, Volume 33, Issue 5, June 2008, Pages 469–479, https://doi.org/10.1093/chemse/bjn014
Chrea C, Grandjean D, Delplanque S, Cayeux I, Le Calvé B, Aymard L, Velazco MI, Sander D, Scherer KR. Mapping the semantic space for the subjective experience of emotional responses to odors. Chem Senses. 2009 Jan;34(1):49-62.
doi: 10.1093/chemse/bjn052. Epub 2008 Sep 11. PMID: 18786964
Stoddart, M. (1985) Is Incense a Pheromone?, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, 10:3, 237-247, DOI: 10.1179/isr.1985.10.3.237
Baum, J. M. (2013). From Incense to Idolatry: The Reformation of Olfaction in Late Medieval German Ritual. The Sixteenth Century Journal, 44(2), 323–344. http://www.jstor.org/stable/24245084
Bossy, J. (1983). The Mass as a Social Institution 1200-1700. Past & Present, 100, 29–61. http://www.jstor.org/stable/650620
Waskul, D. D., & Vannini, P. (2008). Smell, Odor, and Somatic Work: Sense-Making and Sensory Management. Social Psychology Quarterly, 71(1), 53–71. http://www.jstor.org/stable/20141818
Nina Ergin (2014) The Fragrance of the Divine: Ottoman Incense Burners and Their Context, The Art Bulletin, 96:1, 70-97, DOI: 10.1080/00043079.2014.877306
Qin, Z.; Song, Y.; Jin, Y. Green Worship: The Effects of Devotional and Behavioral Factors on Adopting Electronic Incense Products in Religious Practices. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2019, 16, 3618. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16193618
Harini Sangat-Roemantyo. “Ethnobotany of the Javanese Incense.” Economic Botany, vol. 44, no. 3, 1990, pp. 413–16, http://www.jstor.org/stable/4255261. Accessed 4 May 2022.
R.G. Newhauser (Eds.). A Cultural History of the Senses in the Middle Ages ; London: Bloomsbury Academic. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781474233156.ch-004
Toner, J. (Eds.). (2014). A Cultural History of the Senses in Antiquity. London: Bloomsbury Academic. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781474233057
Tellenbach, H.; (2013 ) The Aroma of The World (italian edition);
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De Martino, E.; (2015) Magic: A Theory from the South
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Han, B.C.; (2017) The Scent of Time: A Philosophical Essay on the Art of Lingering
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Ashbrook Harvey, S.; (2015) Scenting Salvation: Ancient Christianity and the Olfactory Imagination
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Shaw, B.; (2018) The Smell of Fresh Rain: The Unexpected Pleasures of our Most Elusive Sense
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Classen, C., Howes, D., Synnott, A. (1994) Aroma: The Cultural History of Smell
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De Errico, A.; (2021) Profumo di Niente (in Italian)
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Messinis, A.; (2017) The History of Perfume in Venice
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