The culture of flowers / Jack Goody.
By: Goody, Jack
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TextPublisher: Cambridge [England] ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 1993Description: xvii, 462 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0521424844 (pbk.); 0521414415 (hardback)Subject(s): Ethnobotany | Ethnobotany -- Africa | Flowers -- History | Flowers -- Social aspects | Flowers -- Symbolic aspectsDDC classification: 302.2/22 LOC classification: GN476.73 | .G66 1993Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 429-457) and index.| Item type | Current library | Shelving location | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 429-457) and index.
No flowers in Africa? -- In the beginning : gardens and paradise, garlands and sacrifice -- The decline of flower culture in Europe -- Flowers without representation in Islam -- The return of the rose in medieval Western Europe -- Icons and iconoclasm in the Renaissance -- The growth of the market -- The secret Language of flowers in France : specialist knowledge or fictive ethnography? -- The Americanisation of the foreign mind -- The popular culture of flowers in Europe -- Garlands in India : the marigold and the jasmine -- The f̀our gentlemen of flowers' in China -- L̀et a hundred flowers bloom' : the New Year in South China -- A distant reading.