ANTH 209 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Marcel Proust, Aromatherapy, Sensorium
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Marcel proust: food and memory: in search of lost time or remembrance of things past and. Madeleines: proust"s madeleines are the iconic symbols of food as vehicle for memory and emotions, eating madeleines and drinking tea became the pivotal moment that triggers an avalanche of memories. Food as vehicle of memory: memory interaction of the past, present and future. The sensual dimensions of food: cooking as embodied skills. 1. cooking involves skills that are primarily repetitive bodily movement and rhythms such as slicing, moving from one appliance to another- like dance. 2. cooking involves tools as extension of the body. Culture and the sense of smell (olfactory: smell is cultural, evocative power of smell not categorized like vision, smell evokes the things around it and makes it recognizable. 2. foul smell seen in terms of disease, sin, and death. 3. paris in the 18th century was the site of emerging modern attitudes about smell and urban space alain corbin"s foul and fragrant.