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Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
256
Utgivningsdatum
1994-11-01
Förlag
Routledge
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Illustratör/Fotograf
bibliography
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bibliography
Dimensioner
220 x 140 x 20 mm
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330 g
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1
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1:B&W 5.5 x 8.5 in or 216 x 140 mm (Demy 8vo) Perfect Bound on Creme w/Gloss Lam
ISBN
9780415114738

Aroma

The Cultural History of Smell

av Constance Classen, David Howes, Anthony Synnott
Häftad,  Engelska, 1994-11-01
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Smell is a social phenomenon, given particular meanings and values by different cultures. Odours form the building blocks of cosmologies, class hierarchies, and political odours. They can enforce social structures or transgress them, unite people or divide them, empower or disempower. The authors argue that the sociology of smell is repressed in the modern West, and its social history ignored. This book breaks the "olfactory silence" of modernity. It offers the first comprehensive exploration of the cultural role of odours in Western history - from antiquity to the present. It also covers a wide variey of non-Western societies. Its topics range from the medieval concept of the "odour of sanctity", to the aromatherapies of South America, and from olfactory stereotypes of gender and ethnicity in the modern West to the role of smell in postmodernity. Its subject matter will fascinate anyone who likes to nose around in the inner workings of culture.
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`One of the most common ritual uses of odour across cultures is to combat illness,' write the authors of Aroma' - Glasgow Herald `Aroma is a fund of stimulating stories and has obviously been well researched.' - Times Higher Educ Supplement

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Constance Classen is the author of Inca Cosmology and the Human Body and Worlds of Sense; David Howes is the editor of The Varieties of Sensory Experience; and Anthony Synnott is the author of The Body Social.

Innehållsförteckning

List of tables, Acknowledgements, Introduction: The meaning and power of smell, Part I: In search of lost scents, 1. The aromas of antiquity, 2. Following the scent: From the Middle Ages to modernity, Part II: Explorations in olfactory difference, 3. Universes of odour, 4. The rites of smell, Part III: Odour, power and society5. Odour and power: The politics of smell, 6. The aroma of the commodity: The commercialization of smell, Notes, Bibliography, Index

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