Aroma: The Cultural History of Smell - Rilegato

Classen, Constance; Howes, David; Synnott, Anthony

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ISBN 10: 0415114721 ISBN 13: 9780415114721

Casa editrice: Routledge, 1994

Riassunto

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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Informazioni sull?autore

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.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Routledge
• Data di pubblicazione: 1994
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0415114721
• ISBN 13: 9780415114721
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 260
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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