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Author Goody, Jack.

Title The culture of flowers / Jack Goody.

Publication Info. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1993.

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  302.2 G658C    Check Shelf
Description xvii, 462 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 429-457) and index.
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.
Subject Ethnobotany.
Ethnobotany -- Africa.
Flowers -- History.
Flowers -- Social aspects.
Flowers -- Symbolic aspects.
Indexed Term Nonverbal communication
ISBN 0521414415 hardcover
0521424844 paperback
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