Anthony Synnott’s scientific contributions

... This work was followed by other similar ones by Corbin, who in 1990 published Histoire et anthropologie sensorielle, with which he announced that sensory studies were of interest to and connected with at least two disciplinary fields, history and anthropology, which soon offered new studies and results on this topic (e.g. Bynum and Porter 1993;Classen 1993Classen , 1997Classen et al. 1994;Gage et al. 1999;Howes 2005Howes , 2013Sutton 2001;Taçon 1991). ...

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Mixtures and Textures in Maya Culinary Art:: Evidence from Yesterday and Today

... In an essay called "Canada's Visible Minorities: Identity and Representation," Anthony Synnott and David Howes similarly note that the term "visible minorities" privileges the visual and foregrounds skin color as "the primary determinant of group identification." 55 For them, there are other kinds of minorities, particularly linguistic minorities and religious minorities, as well as the very old and the very young, which are not covered by the term. 56 They argue that the concept of visible minorities "was not well formulated in the first place, and raises serious questions about the legislation which employs it." ...

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3 Complicating Racial Binaries: Asian Canadians and African Canadians as Visible Minorities

... In addition, as historian Robert Jütte claims: "there can be no such thing as a natural history of the senses, only a social history of human sense perception" [6]. In her recent study on the relationship between smell and morality, Sara Silva elaborates on how medical and cultural historians, as well as anthropologists and psychologists, have emphasized the key role olfaction plays across time and place, not only through rituals, or as a means of diagnosing disease, but also as a warning mechanism regarding threats, dangerous environments, and people [7][8][9][10][11]. She explains how shared, familiar smells encourage a sense of identity and security, at both individual and group levels, whereas the opposite leads to smelly feelings of distrust, avoidance, and fear. ...

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Harvesting Context and Mining Emotions Related to Olfactory Cultural Heritage