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Andaman Islanders
Artificial Flavours
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BEI
Body Odours
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classification
cross-cultural analysis
Darius III
Eau De Cologne
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floral
Floral Crowns
foul
Foul Odour
Fruit Blossoms
Good Life
islands
Martial Writes
Multisensory Context
odour
Odour Categories
olfactory
Olfactory Classification
Olfactory Codes
Olfactory Difference
olfactory perception
Olfactory Symbolism
Perfume Ads
Perfumed Sex
Perfumed Unguent
politics of odour in society
ritual symbolism
scent
Scent Strips
scents
sensory anthropology
sensory history
social stratification
Sweet Scents
trail
Product details
- ISBN 9780415114738
- Weight: 470g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 24 Nov 1994
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
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.
