title: Cultural flows and interrelations between perfumery arts in Asia: The Spread and Rise of Agarwood
creator: Jung, Dinah
subject: 300
subject: 300 Social sciences
description: The perfumery heritage of Asia is renowned for its use of agarwood. This aromatic develops as a natural product in Aquilaria trees which have their origin in the Indo-Malayan region. Distributed via migration and trade, the aromatic product of agarwood has become integrated in perfumery arts throughout Asia. The ethnographic poster presentation at hand visually introduces exemplary fine arts from the prominent cultures of agarwood fine consumption. While comparing and reflecting upon them, histories of cultural contacts, flows and exchanges between the various Asian regions are conjured up. Eventually, characteristics can be discerned which let agarwood become the reason for and the key material of the sophisticated and standout perfumery arts in West and East Asia – namely its sensory nature, its mystic aura, and its commercial exclusivity.
date: 2011
type: Conference Item
type: info:eu-repo/semantics/conferenceObject
type: NonPeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
identifier: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserverhttps://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/12777/7/Jung_MontrealPoster_2011.pdf
identifier: DOI:10.11588/heidok.00012777
identifier: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-opus-127775
identifier:   Jung, Dinah  (2011) Cultural flows and interrelations between perfumery arts in Asia: The Spread and Rise of Agarwood.  [Conference Item]     
relation: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/12777/
rights: info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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language: eng