Dragon S Brain Perfume

Author : R.A. Donkin
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2023-08-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004644786

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Dragon’s Brain Perfume by R.A. Donkin Pdf

In the Dragon's Brain Perfume (a Chinese description of Camphor) once more the existence and importance of world systems of exchange becomes clear. In the pre-industrial world aromatic substances have always counted among the most prominent items of long-distance trade. The finest camphor came from Malaya, Borneo and Sumatra, but long-distance trade took it to societies at the geographical poles of demand - China and the medieval West already in late Antiquity (ca. 6th century A.D.). In India it was in use at an even much earlier period. The present monograph opens with a survey of aromata generally - origins, time and place of demand - from the Ancient Civilizations to the Age of Discoveries. Chapter two concerns the natural history of camphor; subsequent chapters are organized by regions (India, Western Asia, the medieval West, South East Asia, China and Japan), with a postscript on Origins and Diffusion. Evidence is drawn from an extensive range of sources in natural and cultural history.The work includes 15 original maps, 28 illustrations, and an extensive bibliography.

Author : R. A. Donkin
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9004109838

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Dragon's Brain Perfume by R. A. Donkin Pdf

Camphor - origin, distribution, disposal, use - is here examined in the wider context of Old World "aromata." Evidence is drawn from an extensive range of sources in natural and cultural history. Fifteen original maps, twenty-eight other illustrations, and extensive bibliography.

Author : John McLeod
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 9004113436

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Sovereignty, Power, Control by John McLeod Pdf

This thorough study offers the opportunity to gain a clear understanding of the mechanics of political interaction in princely India (in the period 1916-1947) between the British colonial power, the princely rulers, and nationalist politicians. The first major scholarly contribution to an until now largely ignored field of interest.

Author : Iping Liang
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2024-04-23
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781666935370

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Critical Plant Studies in Taiwan by Iping Liang Pdf

Critical Plant Studies in Taiwan presents a historical overview of vegetal ecocriticism in Taiwan. Divided into 12 chapters, it examines the human-plant entanglements on the island. Covering a wide spectrum of topics, such as the imperial plant explorations, the military casuarina afforestation, the mangrove conservation movement, the ecofeminist rooftop garden, the Indigenous millet restoration, the underground mycorrhizal network in urban Taipei, etc., it discloses the phyto-politics in the historical context of the vegetal materialist condition of the island. Intersecting the poetics and politics of plant narratives, it presents the multispecies plantscapes of the island. The first of its kind, the collection launches the historical and localized critical plant studies in Taiwan.

Author : Xuelei Huang
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2023-07-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009207041

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Scents of China by Xuelei Huang Pdf

A pioneering cultural history of smell in China from the High Qing to the Mao period.

Author : Paul Kekai Manansala
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2016-01-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781329855342

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Quests of the Dragon and Bird Clan: Pun and Sepu (Vol. IV) by Paul Kekai Manansala Pdf

Continuation of the multi-volume set Quests of the Dragon and Bird Clan by Paul Kekai Manansala. This is the fourth and last volume of the series based on the online blog of the same name.

Author : Holly Dugan
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2011-11-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781421404226

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The Ephemeral History of Perfume by Holly Dugan Pdf

In contrast to the other senses, smell has long been thought of as too elusive, too fleeting for traditional historical study. Holly Dugan disagrees, arguing that there are rich accounts documenting how men and women produced, consumed, and represented perfumes and their ephemeral effects. She delves deeply into the cultural archive of olfaction to explore what a sense of smell reveals about everyday life in early modern England. In this book, Dugan focuses on six important scents—incense, rose, sassafras, rosemary, ambergris, and jasmine. She links these smells to the unique spaces they inhabited—churches, courts, contact zones, plague-ridden households, luxury markets, and pleasure gardens—and the objects used to dispense them. This original approach provides a rare opportunity to study how early modern men and women negotiated the environment in their everyday lives and the importance of smell to their daily actions. Dugan defines perfume broadly to include spices, flowers, herbs, animal parts, trees, resins, and other ingredients used to produce artificial scents, smokes, fumes, airs, balms, powders, and liquids. In researching these Renaissance aromas, Dugan uncovers the extraordinary ways, now largely lost, that people at the time spoke and wrote about smell: objects “ambered, civited, expired, fetored, halited, resented, and smeeked” or were described as “breathful, embathed, endulced, gracious, halited, incensial, odorant, pulvil, redolent, and suffite.” A unique contribution to early modern studies, The Ephemeral History of Perfume is an unparalleled study of olfaction in the Renaissance, a period in which new scents and important cultural theories about smell were developed. Dugan’s inspired analysis of a wide range of underexplored sources makes available to scholars a remarkable wealth of information on the topic.

Author : Michael Dove
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780300153217

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The Banana Tree at the Gate by Michael Dove Pdf

The "Hikayat Banjar," a seventeenth-century native court chronicle from Southeast Borneo, characterizes the irresistibility of natural resource wealth to outsiders as "the banana tree at the gate." Michael R. Dove employs this phrase as a root metaphor to frame the history of resource relations between the indigenous peoples of Borneo and the world system, standing on its head the prevailing view of resource-poor and economically marginal tropical forest dwellers. In analyzing production and trade in forest products, pepper, and especially natural rubber, Dove shows that the involvement of Borneo's native peoples in commodity production for global markets is ancient and highly successful. This success is based on the development of a "dual" household economy, with distinct subsistence- and market-oriented sectors, which has historically made these "smallholders" extremely competitive with the large-scale, heavily capitalized, state-supported plantation sector. Dove sheds new light on the nature of smallholders and in particular their relationship with the global economic system. He demonstrates that processes of globalization began millennia ago and that they have been more diverse and less teleological than often thought. His analysis replaces the image of the isolated tropical forest community that needs to be helped into the global system with the reality of communities that have been so successful and competitive that they have had to fight political elites to keep from being forced out. The ubiquitous but historically inaccurate emphasis on isolation and resource-poverty disguises that the overweening characteristic of these communities is their political marginality and that their greatest want is not to be uplifted economically but to be empowered politically.

Author : Jonathan Reinarz
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2014-03-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780252096020

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Past Scents by Jonathan Reinarz Pdf

In this comprehensive and engaging volume, medical historian Jonathan Reinarz offers a historiography of smell from ancient to modern times. Synthesizing existing scholarship in the field, he shows how people have relied on their olfactory sense to understand and engage with both their immediate environments and wider corporal and spiritual worlds. This broad survey demonstrates how each community or commodity possesses, or has been thought to possess, its own peculiar scent. Through the meanings associated with smells, osmologies develop--what cultural anthropologists have termed the systems that utilize smells to classify people and objects in ways that define their relations to each other and their relative values within a particular culture. European Christians, for instance, relied on their noses to differentiate Christians from heathens, whites from people of color, women from men, virgins from harlots, artisans from aristocracy, and pollution from perfume. This reliance on smell was not limited to the global North. Around the world, Reinarz shows, people used scents to signify individual and group identity in a morally constructed universe where the good smelled pleasant and their opposites reeked. With chapters including "Heavenly Scents," "Fragrant Lucre," and "Odorous Others," Reinarz's timely survey is a useful and entertaining look at the history of one of our most important but least-understood senses.

Author : Anya H. King
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2017-01-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004336315

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Scent from the Garden of Paradise. Musk and the Medieval Islamic World by Anya H. King Pdf

Scent from the Garden of Paradise: Musk and the Medieval Islamic World traces the history of musk from ancient Asia to the early medieval Islamic world and examines the important role musk played in perfumery and medicine in this new context.

Author : D.J. Conway
Publisher : Llewellyn Worldwide
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-08
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780738716046

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Dancing with Dragons by D.J. Conway Pdf

Why do all cultures, distant and diverse, have similar tales of dragons? Universal wisdom confirms dragons have interacted with people since time immemorial—they call to us, pique our curiosity, and arouse our fears. These mystical beasts are real and their power, their influence, and especially their magick can be captured. Building upon rituals and drawing on their energy, learn to befriend these inspirational creatures and become partners with them on a spiritual journey. Move with them, learn from them, dance in perfect human/dragon syncopation. Praise: "A unique, one-of-a-kind tome and a welcome addition to the growing body of metaphysical lore."—Midwest Book Review "A personal devotion and an academic work of the highest order."—The Dragon Chronicle (UK) "Dragon-lovers everywhere will like this book."—Prediction

Author : Marco Polo,Sir Henry Yule,Henri Cordier
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 899 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1993-01-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780486275871

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The Travels of Marco Polo by Marco Polo,Sir Henry Yule,Henri Cordier Pdf

A vast treasury of invaluable observations on the peoples and geography of the Near East and Asia in the 13th century. Detailed descriptions of cities, customs, laws, crops, animals, politicals, more.

Author : Su Fang Ng
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2019-04-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192560131

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Alexander the Great from Britain to Southeast Asia by Su Fang Ng Pdf

No figure has had a more global impact than Alexander the Great, whose legends have encircled the globe and been translated into a dizzying multitude of languages, from Indo-European and Semitic to Turkic and Austronesian. Alexander the Great from Britain to Southeast Asia examines parallel traditions of the Alexander Romance in Britain and Southeast Asia, demonstrating how rival Alexanders - one Christian, the other Islamic - became central figures in their respective literatures. In the early modern age of exploration, both Britain and Southeast Asia turned to literary imitations of Alexander to imagine their own empires and international relations, defining themselves as peripheries against the Ottoman Empire's imperial center: this shared classical inheritance became part of an intensifying cross-cultural engagement in the encounter between the two, allowing a revealing examination of their cultural convergences and imperial rivalries and a remapping of the global literary networks of the early modern world. Rather than absolute alterity or strangeness, the narrative of these parallel traditions is one of contact - familiarity and proximity, unexpected affinity and intimate strangers.

Author : George B. Bookman
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2009-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781440118333

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Headlines, Deadlines and Lifelines by George B. Bookman Pdf

Headlines, Deadlines and Lifelines is a memoir of a longtime journalist whose career centered on writing about economics, took him from New York to Washington, Africa, the Middle East, Central Asia and of course, across Europe. As he finished the book he was turning 94 years old. An unforgettable Junior college year in Paris launched his adulthood. Along the way he served nearly four years overseas during World War II, covered the White House as a newsman under FDR's Presidency, was Time Magazine's National Economics Correspondent, and later was a public relations executive and consultant in Wall Street. He also writes about his marriage of 57 years to his wife whose Orthodox Jewish roots were very different from his Reformist ancestry, and about their two children, four grandchildren and now 4 greatgrands. In the closing pages, after his wife of 57 years passed away, he tells about the friendship he resumed with a woman he had not seen in more than 40 years. They have now been together more than six years - and counting.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 616 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : China
ISBN : MINN:31951P005979390

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China Review International by Anonim Pdf