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Scent and Scent-sibilities

Smell and Everyday Life Experiences

By: Kelvin E. Y. Low

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Scent and Scent-sibilities

Smell and Everyday Life Experiences

By: Kelvin E. Y. Low

Smells 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-à-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.

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205

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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ISBN 10

1443803065

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9781443803069

Remembering the Samsui Women

Migration and Social Memory in Singapore and China

By: Kelvin E.Y. Low

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Remembering the Samsui Women

Migration and Social Memory in Singapore and China

By: Kelvin E.Y. Low

In the early twentieth century, thousands of women from the Samsui area of Guangdong, China migrated to Singapore during a period of economic and natural calamity, leaving their families behind. In their new country, many found work in the construction industry, with others working in households or factories where they were called hong tou jin, translated literally as “red-head-scarf,” after the headgear that protected them from the sun. In Singapore, the women have been celebrated as pioneering figures for their hard work and resilience, and in China for the sacrifices they made for their families. Remembering the Samsui Women looks at who these women really are and at how both countries have commemorated their experiences. It is an illuminating study of the connection between memory and nation, including the politics of what is remembered and what is forgotten.

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269

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UBC Press

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0774825782

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9780774825788

Sensory Anthropology

Culture and Experience in Asia

By: Kelvin E. Y. Low

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Sensory Anthropology

Culture and Experience in Asia

By: Kelvin E. Y. Low

From constructions of rasa (taste) in pre-colonial India and Indonesia, children and sensory discipline within the monastic orders of the Edo period of Japan, to sound expressives among the Semai in Peninsular Malaysia, the sensory soteriology of Tibetan Buddhism, and sensory warscapes of WWII, this book analyses how sensory cultures in Asia frame social order and disorder. Illustrated with a wide range of fascinating examples, it explores key anthropological themes, such as culture and language, food and foodways, morality, transnationalism and violence, and provides granular analyses on sensory relations, sensory pairings, and intersensoriality. By offering rich ethnographic perspectives on inter- and intra-regional sense relations, the book engages with a variety of sensory models, and moves beyond narrower sensory regimes bounded by group, nation or temporality. A pioneering exploration of the senses in and out of Asia, it is essential reading for academic researchers and students in social and cultural anthropology.

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Cambridge University Press

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1009240811

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9781009240819

Remembering the Samsui Women

Migration and Social Memory in Singapore and China

By: Kelvin E.Y. Low

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Migration and Social Memory in Singapore and China

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Everyday Life in Asia

Social Perspectives on the Senses

By: Dr Devorah Kalekin-Fishman,Mr Kelvin E Y Low

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Everyday Life in Asia

Social Perspectives on the Senses

By: Dr Devorah Kalekin-Fishman,Mr Kelvin E Y Low

Everyday Life in Asia offers a range of detailed case studies which present social perspectives on sensory experiences in Asia. Thematically organized around the notions of the experience of space and place, tradition and the senses, cross-border sensory experiences, and habitus and the senses – its rich empirical content reveals people's commitment to place, and the manner in which its sensory experience provides the key to penetrating the meanings abound in everyday life. Offering the first close analysis of various facets of sensory experience in places that share a geographical location or cultural orientation in Asia, this collection links the conception of place with understandings of 'how the senses work'. With contributions from an international team of experts, Everyday Life in Asia will be of interest to anthropologists, geographers and sociologists with interests in culture, everyday life, and their relation to the senses of place and space.

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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1409492346

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9781409492344

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Scent and Scent-sibilities

Scent and Scent-sibilities

Remembering the Samsui Women

Remembering the Samsui Women

Sensory Anthropology

Sensory Anthropology

Remembering the Samsui Women

Remembering the Samsui Women

Everyday Life in Asia

Everyday Life in Asia

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