The culture of flowers - Goody, Jack (Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1993)
No flowers in Africa? -- In the beginning : gardens and paradise, garlands and sacrifice -- The decline of flower culture in Europe -- Flowers without representation in Islam -- The return of the rose in medieval Western Europe -- Icons and iconoclasm in the Renaissance -- The growth of the market -- The secret Language on flowers in France : specialist knowledge or fictive ethnography? -- The Americanisation of the foreign mind -- The popular culture of flowers in Europe -- Garlands in India : the marigold and the jasmine --The 'four gentlemen of flowers' in China -- 'Let a hundred flowers bloom' : the New Year in South China -- A distant reading.
Keywords: kukat (kasvit); kulttuuri; symbolit; kulttuurienvälinen tutkimus; etnobotaniikka; blommor (växter); kultur; symboler; interkulturell forskning; etnobotanik