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1 online resource |
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Introduction: On Being Nose-Wise -- 1. Noses: The Stench of Books and Archival Absences -- 2. Archives: Sniffing Around Volatile Records -- 3. Narratives: The Temporality of Scent-less-ness -- Conclusion: Nose First |
| Summary |
What if researchers interested in 'the past' used their noses? This open access book makes the case for a more imaginatively interdisciplinary approach to sensory heritage and history, arguing that we can and should engage our noses as a research tool for articulating the past. Assessing how both we and our ancestors approach, understand and conceptualise smell, Tullett shows how archives can be 're-odorized' to uncover narratives that are only implicit in or obscured by the historical record. From perfume libraries to organic compounds emitted by historical objects, this book acts as a guide for employing our olfactory senses when researching and studying history in order to understand and communicate the past more fully. Employing 'olfactory figures' examples, <i>Smell and the Past</i> shows how historical narratives and arguments can be found through a structured olfactory experience, and demonstrates how our understanding of the past and its relationship with the present is enriched by opening our minds and using our noses. <i>The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the European Union's Horizon 2020 program project ODEUROPA under grant agreement number 101004469.</i> |
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Introduction: On Being Nose-Wise 1. Noses: The Stench of Books and Archival Absences 2. Archives: Sniffing Around Volatile Records 3. Narratives: The Temporality of Scent-less-ness Conclusion: Nose First |
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Cultural studies
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History.
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history (discipline)
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History: theory & methods.
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Museology & heritage studies.
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History
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781350371811 |
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1350371815 |
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1350367532 |
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9781350367531 |
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