Tullett William. Smell and the Past: Noses, Archives, Narratives

London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2023. — 161 p. — ISBN 978-1-3503-6753-1.Запах и прошлое: носы, архивы, рассказы.
Мы можем и должны использовать свой нос в качестве исследовательского инструмента для артикуляции прошлого.What if researchers interested in ‘the past’ used their noses? This open access book makes the case for a more imaginatively interdisciplinary approach to sensory heritage and history, arguing that we can and should engage our noses as a research tool for articulating the past. Assessing how both we and our ancestors approach, understand and conceptualise smell, Tullett shows how archives can be‘re-odorized’ to uncover narratives that are only implicit in or obscured by the historical record. From perfume libraries to organic compounds emitted by historical objects, this book acts as a guide for employing our olfactory senses when researching and studying history in order to understand and communicate the past more fully. Employing ‘olfactory figures’ examples, Smell and the Past shows how historical narratives and arguments can be found through a structured olfactory experience, and demonstrates how our understanding of the past and its relationship with the present is enriched by opening our minds and using our noses.Introduction: On being nose-wise
1 Noses
The stench of books and trees
Archival absences
Material presences and olfactory affordances
Re-odorizing the material archive
Making politics sensible
Epistemicides
2 Archives
Falstaff ’s nose
Volatile records
Sniffing around
3 Narratives
The scent of time
The temporality of scent-less-ness
The archaeology of an odour
Beyond see-what-you-smell
Of ‘notes’, ‘narratives’ and presences
Conclusion: Nose-first