The culture of flowers / Jack Goody.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Goody, Jack
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1993.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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 ̀four gentlemen of flowers' in China
  • ̀Let a hundred flowers bloom' : the New Year in South China
  • A distant reading.