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- catalog abstract ""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"-- Publisher's website.".
- catalog alternative "Cultural history of smell".
- catalog contributor b7155360.
- catalog contributor b7155361.
- catalog contributor b7155362.
- catalog created "1994.".
- catalog date "1994".
- catalog date "1994.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1994.".
- catalog description ""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"-- Publisher's website.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [232]-242) and index.".
- catalog description "Introduction: The meaning and power of smell -- The aromas of antiquity -- Following the scent: from the Middle Ages to modernity -- Universes of odour -- The rites of smell -- Odour and power: the politics of smell -- The aroma of the commodity: the commercialization of smell.".
- catalog extent "viii, 248 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0415114721 (hbk.) :".
- catalog identifier "041511473X (pbk.) :".
- catalog identifier "9780415114721 (hbk.)".
- catalog identifier "9780415114738 (pbk.)".
- catalog issued "1994".
- catalog issued "1994.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "London : New York : Routledge,".
- catalog subject "391/.63 20".
- catalog subject "GT2847 .C53 1994".
- catalog subject "Odors History.".
- catalog subject "Smell History.".
- catalog subject "Social history.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction: The meaning and power of smell -- The aromas of antiquity -- Following the scent: from the Middle Ages to modernity -- Universes of odour -- The rites of smell -- Odour and power: the politics of smell -- The aroma of the commodity: the commercialization of smell.".
- catalog title "Aroma : the cultural history of smell / Constance Classen, David Howes, and Anthony Synnott.".
- catalog title "Cultural history of smell".
- catalog type "text".