MARC Record from Ithaca College Library

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050 00 $aGN476.73$b.G66 1993
049 $aXIMM
100 1 $aGoody, Jack.
245 14 $aThe culture of flowers /$cJack Goody.
260 $aCambridge ;$aNew York :$bCambridge University Press,$c1993.
300 $axvii, 462 p. :$bill. (some col.) ;$c25 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 429-457) and index.
505 0 $aNo 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.
650 0 $aEthnobotany.
650 0 $aEthnobotany$zAfrica.
650 0 $aFlowers$xHistory.
650 0 $aFlowers$xSocial aspects.
650 0 $aSymbolism of flowers.
650 0 $aNonverbal communication