Jack Goody's new book takes as its theme the symbolic and transactional uses of flowers in secular life and religious ritual from ancient Egypt to modern times. He links the use of flowers to the rise of advanced systems of agriculture, the growth of social stratification, and the spread of luxury goods, looking at the history of aesthetic horticulture in Europe and Asia. Other...
Jack Goody's new book takes as its theme the symbolic and transactional uses of flowers in secular life and religious ritual from ancient Egypt to modern times. He links the use of flowers to the rise of advanced systems of agriculture, the growth of social stratification, and the spread of luxury goods, looking at the history of aesthetic horticulture in Europe and Asia. Other themes which emerge are the role of written texts in building up a culture of flowers; the importance of trade and communications in disseminating and transforming attitudes to flowers; the rejection on puritanical grounds of flowers and their artistic representation, and the multiplicity of meanings which flowers possess. Written from a broad temporal and geographical perspective, this original and wide-ranging book will appeal not only to anthropologists and social historians but also to anyone interested in flowers and their symbolic function across the centuries.
List of illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgements
1. Flowers in Africa
2. In the beginning: gardens and paradise, garlands and sacrifice
3. The decline of flower culture in Europe
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List of illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgements
1. Flowers in Africa
2. In the beginning: gardens and paradise, garlands and sacrifice
3. The decline of flower culture in Europe
4. Flowers without representation in Islam
5. The return of the rose in medieval Western Europe
6. Icons and iconoclasm in the Renaissance
7. The growth of the market
8. The secret Language of Flowers in France: specialist knowledge or fictive ethnography
9. The Americanisation of the foreign mind
10. The popular culture of flowers in Europe
11. Garlands in India: the marigold and the jasmine
12. The 'four gentlemen of flowers' in China
13. 'Let a hundred flowers bloom': the New Year in South China
14. A distant reading
References
Index
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0 有用 麦赫德！ 2020-04-26 03:17:31
这本书担得起这个名字！
4 有用 十二花间意 2018-02-14 18:19:35
有没有大神知道哪里能买到或者借到或者下载这本书？
0 有用 蔓玫 2013-02-13 17:45:59
详尽得一塌糊涂。。。近年专业上最爱之书
0 有用 王荣欣 2010-01-20 20:53:52
厚重