Exotic mania [ Taste & Manners ]
… perfumes, and precious stones), giving lustre to those members of society whose aim was to exhibit social and political status, as well as international reputation. 1 . See Peter Mason, ‘Exoticism in the Enlightenment’, Anthropos (vol. 86, … ed. Peter Cunningham (London: Richard Bentley and Son, 1891), vol. 3, p. 410. Exotic animals as symbols of social status Such a crave for exoticism was also expressed by an excessively intense enthusiasm for exotic animals (lions, … of Georgian luxury and decadence and, last but not least, the turtle soup was an elite delicacy standing for the social status of the ruling classes who owned colonial plantations in the Caribbean. Notably, collective turtle consumption was …
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