A Taste of Smell, SCCC 401B
Wednesday, CLS 403, 7:45 PM - 10:15 PM
Professor: Richard Vogt, CLS 306
Office hours by appointment (777-8101); generally available from 10
AM - 8 PM M-F.
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Syllabus, Fall 1995
8/30 Organization.
- Discuss "Powerhouse of Senses, Smell at Last Gets Its Due" by Natalie Angier, New York Times Science Section, February 15, 1995 (St. Valentine's Day).
9/6 Lecture and discussion:
- Organization of Peripheral olfactory systems; insect, fish and mammal.
- Discussion of Dianne Ackerman book.
9/13 Discussion:
- Organization of the peripheral olfactory system.
- Discuss Possible Research Project Topics.
9/20 Student Presentations: Research Project Topics.
9/27 Discussion of Perfume: the story of a murderer
(author: Patrick Suskind).
10/4 Smell and Animal Behavior: (Nitin Patel, Cyndi Roberts)
- Biology and the genetic and social/political consequences of
home stream olfactory
imprinting of Salmon.
- Scent marking and territorality of wolves.
- Specific Readings
10/11
Smell Myths: (Anne Kitchell, Sharon Lynn, Shiva Vafai)
- The National Geographic National Smell Survey of 1988.
10/18 >>> 10/21 Experimentation in Human Orientation and Taste (1614
Hollywood Dr.)
10/25 Scent in Society and Religion: (Marty Player, Animesh
Sinha)
- Scent and Pschye; from The Scented Ape, D. Michael Stoddart.
- Kodo: The Art of Incence; from Human Olfaction
11/1 Where do smells go? (Shawn Taylor)
Olfactory Memory and Alzheimers? (James Poppy)
- Processing olfactory information in the brain.
- Loss of smell in alzheimers and aging.
11/8 Psychoscents: (Shannon Karppinen, Mary Lynch, Amy
Coppler).
- Machinations of the scent trade...
11/15 Odorized and Deoderized Society
- Discussion of readings from The Foul and the Fragrant
11/22 The Taste of Olfaction: Turkey and Dressing
11/29 Final Project Development and Presentation.
12/6 Final Project Development and Presentation.
Students will do a research project to be presented in developmental
and final form and formalized in
writing; projects can be incorparated into an Internet World Wide Web
Server on Olfacation. Students
are expected to be prepared for discussions during class time and to
lead discussions when the topic
relates to their research project. Students are encouraged to
develop, suggest and perform experiments
or living projects relevant to the theme of the class.
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Resources:
http://zebra.sc.edu/smell.html
Directory of Scientists who are members of The Association for
Chemoreception Sciences (most would
be happy to discuss projects with you via phone or e-mail and would
certainly supply their publication
lists.
From the Bookstore:
- Corbin, Alain. The Foul and the Fragrant Odor and the French
Social Imagination,
Harvard University Press [1986] 384 p. ISBN: 0-674-31176-0 Paper in
US: $14.95
- Suskind, Patrick. Perfume: the story of a murderer / New
York ; Pocket Books, 1991
ISBN: 0671749609
- Ackerman, Diane. A natural history of the senses / 1st
ed. New York : Random House,
c1990. ISBN: 0679735666 (pbk.) : $11.00
Other Books; from Library of Congress Catalog:
- Stoddart, D Michael (David Michael) The scented ape; the
biology and culture of human
odour. Cambridge; New York, Cambridge University Press 1990 286p;
QP458 .S77 1990
ISBN: 0521375118
- Classen, Constance 1957 Aroma: the cultural history of smell
/ London ; New York :
Routledge, 1994. viii, 248 p; 23 cm GT2847 .c53 1994 ISBN:
0415114721 (hbk.) : $45.00
041511473X (pbk.) : $14.95
- Dorland, Gabrielle J. Scents appeal : the silent persuasion of
aromatic encounters /
Mendham NJ, W. Dorland Co. 1993. 334p GT2847 .D67 1993 ISBN:
0960325042 : $29.50
- Bizarre and beautiful noses/ Sante Fe NM : John Muir
Publications, 1993 f b1 ISBN:
1562611240 : $14.95
- Rindisbacher Hans, The smell of books ; a cultural-historical
study of olfactory perception in
literature / Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press 1992 PN761
.R56 1992
- Fragrance : the psychology and biology of perfume / New
York Elsevier Applied Science
343p; QP456 .F73 1992
- Farbman AI Cell Biology of Olfaction / Cambridge, New
York, Cambridge University
Press 1992 ; QP458 .F37 1992
- Lake, Max Scents and sensuality : the essence of excitement
/ London : J. Murray, 1989
242p; QP458 .L35 1989 ISBN: 0719546001 : L14.95
- Le Guerer, Annick; Scent, the mysterious and essential powers
of smell / 1sst US ed. New
York; Turtle Bay Books, 1992 260p QP458 .L4413 1992 ISBN: 0394585267
: $20.00 ($25.00
Can.)
- Roubin, Lucienne A Le monde des odeurs; dynamique et fonctions
du champ odorant /
Paris : Meridiens Klincksieck, 1989 296p, HD999.P3933 F773 1989 ISBN:
2865632423
(Provence, lavenders, perfume industry)
- Perfumery; the psychology and biology of fragrance /
London New York; Chapman and
Hall, 1988 268p; TP983 .P36 1988
- Calkin, Robert R. Perfumery : practice and principles /
New York : John Wiley & Sons,
c1994. xiii, 287 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. LC CALL NUMBER: TP983 .C33 1994
ISBN: 0471589349 (alk.
paper)
- Munney, Tymus The ultimate executive lunch: the ultimate
executive manual to titillate the
mind and the palate / Hurley, Berkshire, England; Portsmouth NH
USA; Hurley Style, 1986;
45p; PN6231.F66 M8 1986 ISBN: 0572014104
- Smith, Kathie Billingslea Smelling; Mahwah NJ, Troll
Associates 1988; 24p, QP458 .S65
1988
- Corbin, Alain Le miasme et la jonquille; l'odorat et
l'imaginaire social XVIIIe-XIXe
siecles / Paris; Aubier Montaigne 1982 334p; GT2847 .c67 1982
- Champion, Richard K. The sweet smell of sex. London Canova
P. 1969; 181p; HQ21
.C4512 ISBN: 0284984604
- Zappler, Lisbeth. The natural history of the nose. Garden
City NY, Doubleday 1976; 64p,
QP458 .Z33 ISBN: 0385086288 0385007086 (lib. bdg.)
- Bloch, Iwan 1872-1922 Odoratus sexualis; a scietific and
literary study of sexual scents and
erotic perfumes. New York; AMS Press 1976; HQ21 .B69 1976 ISBN:
0404574149
- Stewart, Anna Lambert. The perfume girl,1921 M1503.S846 P3
- Herrom, Vinnette. Perfume and poison. Boston, RG Badger;
1917. PS3515.E75 P4 1917
- Dennis, Nigel Perfume and poison; a study of the relationship
between Jose Mergamin and
Juan Ramon Jimenez / Kassel (Germany) Edition Reichenberger 1985
159p, PQ6603.E69
Z62 1985 ISBN: 3923593287
- Fragrance chemistry; the science of the sense of smell,
New York; Academic Press 1982
635p. TP983 .F64 1982
- Kaufman, William Irving, Perfume: photographs and text /
New York: Dutton 1974 200p,
TP983 .k33 1974ISBN: 0525495061 : $30.00 (popular writer of pop
culture (california))
- Dinesen, Isak, 1885-1962. [Anecdotes of destiny] Babette's
feast and other anecdotes of
destiny / Isak Dinesen. New York :Vintage Books, 1988. p. cm.
LC CALL NUMBER:
PR6003.L545 A6 1988 ISBN: 039475929X : $4.95
- Memory for odors / Hillsdale, N.J. : L. Erlbaum
Associates, c1995. p. cm. CIP - NOT
YET IN LC
- Dorland, Gabrielle J. Scents appeal : the silent persuasion
of aromatic encounters /
Mendham, N.J. : W. Dorland Co., 1993. xviii, 334 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
LC CALL NUMBER: GT2847
.D67 1993 ISBN: 0960325042 : $29.50
9/27. Discussion Questions, Perfume: the story of a murderer.
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Students were asked to write down 4 points that particulary struck regarding the book. These were written on seperate scraps of paper and combined in a bag. Questions/comments were drawn and discussed in a remarkably energetic session. Some of the notes follow...
- What did he do with the girl's hair if he extracted all the smell from their skin? Why did he store it under the floor boards like Poe's heart?
- Beauty, visual and scent.
- Purity.
- Perfume industry.
- What did he mean about "God Stinking"?
- Why did he always talk about cat shit; didn't they have dogs in France?
- A person with limited vocabulary best describes odors.
- Tried to extract the scents of unsmelly things like glass and water...
- Red-head obsession...
- How Suskind uses phrases and imagery to make what seems at first to be violent and grotesque errotic and sexual.
- The book reminds me of Frankenstein!
- Everyone who exploits Grennoulle dies or suffers.
- Creating his own body odor with cat dung.
- The creation of psychoscents.
- Reality: vision is not all that beautiful.
- How the author dexcribed the odors more than the surroundings like in typical books.
- Extracting odors of virgins.
- Consumption.
- Phenomenon of non-smell.
- How is the "animal" act of eating G. an act of "love"?
- Please tell me how he could smell that girl across a river and all of the way down the street?
- Being born in a trash can is pretty harsh.
10/4. Specific Readings, Smell and Animal Behavior.
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Readings given to all students:
Scent-Marking in Wolves, Roger P. Peters and L. David Mech. (1975) American Scientist 63, 628-637.
Modeling territoriality and wolf-deer interactions. M.A. Lewis and J.D. Murray (1993) Science 366, 738-740.
Pacific salmon migrations and homing: mechanisms and adaptive significance. Thomas P. Quinn and Andrew H. Dittman (1990) Trends in Ecology and Evolution 5, 174-177.
Imprinting to chemical cues: the basis for home stream selection in salmon. Allan T. Scholz, Ross M. Horrall, Jon C. Cooper, Arthur D. Hasler (1976) Science 192, 1247-1249
Swimming with Salmon, New studies show we haven't understood their world. Can we learn fast enough to save them? Jessica Maxwell (1995) Natural History September, 28-38.
Additional Readings:
Scent-marking behavior of sympatric wolves (Canis lupis)and coyotes
(C. latrans) in Riding Mountain National Park Paul C. Paquet (1991) Canadian Journal of Zoology 69, 1721-1727.
The influence of social and endocrine factors on urine-marking bycaptive wolves (Canis lupus). Cheryl S. Asa, L. David Mech, Ulysses S. Seal,
and Edward D. Plotka (1990) Hormones and Behavior 24, 497-509.
Evidence for a peripheral olfactory memory in imprinted salmon. Gabrielle A. Nevitt, Andrew H. Dittman, Thomas P. Quinn and William J. Moody, Jr. (1994) Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, USA 91, 4288-4292.