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| #4406926 in Books | 1993-02-26 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.72 x1.38 x6.85l, | File type: PDF | 480 pages||2 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| Historical, medicinal and cultural story of flowers|By Nancilee Wydra|Amazing information including all forms of a flower's uses, believes and adventures in history.
Did you know that cultures that don't have flowers are less evolved than ones that have a tradition of growing flowers. I guess that makes Holland one of the most advanced humanistic cultures in the wor|From Library Journal|"Culture" in this context refers not to cultivation but to cultural anthropology. The title is unfortunate, as readers are apt to think that this book is about flower growing. A less ambiguous title might have been The Ethnography of Flowers
Jack Goody's new book takes as its theme the symbolic and transactional uses of flowers in secular life and religious ritual from ancient Egypt to modern times. He links the use of flowers to the rise of advanced systems of agriculture, the growth of social stratification, and the spread of luxury goods, looking at the history of aesthetic horticulture in Europe and Asia. Other themes which emerge are the role of written texts in building up a culture of flowers; the imp...
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