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Olfactory Ontology and Scented Harmonies: on the History of Smell

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This article is published in The Journal of Popular Culture.The article was published on 1974-03-01. It has received 12 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Ontology (information science).

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Odor and Power in the Americas: Olfactory Consciousness from Columbus to Emancipation

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors propose a method to solve the problem of homonymity in homonym identification, which is called homonym-based homonymization............................................................................................................................. ii
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Olfaction and transition: an essay on the ritual uses of smell

TL;DR: There is an intrinsic connection between olfaction and transition, or category change as discussed by the authors, which finds expression in the context of diverse rites of passage the world over, and smells constantly escape from their objects, and because of the way they normally signal processes of transformation, e.g., cooking, putrefaction, that they are used to mediate (and manage transitions) between social categories.
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Becoming the Leader: Leadership as Material Presence:

TL;DR: Barad and Bollas as discussed by the authors propose a theory of leadership micro-dynamics in which the leader is materialized through practices of working on a corporeal self for presentation to both self and others.
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Reputation Mechanism for E-Commerce in Virtual Reality Environments

TL;DR: Evaluation results indicate that SARC can more accurately model sellers’ reputation than the state-of-the-art approaches.
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On the odour of the soul; Spatial representation and olfactory classification in Eastern Indonesia and Western Melanesia

David Howes
TL;DR: Seeger as discussed by the authors argued that time and space are not perceived by the vast majority of human societies as a regular continuum and grid, so the [sensorium] is rarely thought of in strictly biological terms.