9780415114721-0415114721-Aroma: The Cultural History of Smell

Aroma: The Cultural History of Smell

ISBN-13: 9780415114721
ISBN-10: 0415114721
Author: Constance Classen, David Howes, Anthony Synnott
Publication date: 1994
Publisher: Routledge
Format: Hardcover 260 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780415114721
ISBN-10: 0415114721
Author: Constance Classen, David Howes, Anthony Synnott
Publication date: 1994
Publisher: Routledge
Format: Hardcover 260 pages

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Aroma: The Cultural History of Smell (ISBN-13: 9780415114721 and ISBN-10: 0415114721), written by authors Constance Classen, David Howes, Anthony Synnott, was published by Routledge in 1994. With an overall rating of 3.6 stars, it's a notable title among other books. You can easily purchase or rent Aroma: The Cultural History of Smell (Hardcover) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.3.

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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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