Cabinet 64: The Nose

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With the possible exception of the eyes, no other part of the face is as burdened with legend, myth and significance as the nose.Cabinet issue 64, with a special section on "The Nose, " includes Christopher Turner on Smell-O-Vision, Aromarama and other failed technologies for making cinema into an olfactory event, Jennifer Greenberg on how European colonialists characterized the relationship between race and nose shape, Anthony Harley on the political history of rhinoplasty in the US, and Thiago Carvalho on the new scientific work on the relationship between smell, immunity and mating among animals. Elsewhere in the issue: Adam Bobbette on Indonesian men who train young birds to sing the songs of extinct birds, Indiana Seresin on the way a mythic Native American indigeneity has been used by children at American summer camps, Ara Merjian on the Situationists' uses of Giorgio de Chirico's early paintings, and more.