The Ambiguity of Hunting: A View to a Death in the Morning: Hunting and Nature Through History . Matt Cartmill.

Abstract

problem of the universality of fragrance types derived from such descriptive primitives as full, musty and tenacious for earthy, with oakmoss as its prototype, there is the further problem of the assignment of body regions and functions to these fragrance types. What, for example, does the fragrance type incense have to do with that infamous body part called mind? Most of the problems in this interpretation parallel those of other perception studies, such as wine tasting and color perception, where the biological mechanics of neural stimulation purport to constitute universal perceptions that are correlated with such unwieldy and unlikely interpretive categories as level of cultural complexity, or full-bodied and oaky. Still and all, this is an interesting and entertaining book that, like Goody's The Culture of Flowers, addresses topics that have been neglected in research because they implicate sensorial functions that are difficult to translate into the terms of a discourse dominated by metaphors of vision.