Aroma: The Cultural History of Smell
Autor Constance Classen, David Howes, Anthony Synnotten Limba Engleză Hardback – 24 noi 1994
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780415114721
ISBN-10: 0415114721
Pagini: 260
Dimensiuni: 138 x 216 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.64 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0415114721
Pagini: 260
Dimensiuni: 138 x 216 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.64 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
Recenzii
`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
`Aroma is a fund of stimulating stories and has obviously been well researched.' - Times Higher Educ Supplement
Cuprins
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
Notă biografică
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.
Descriere
This text argues that smell is repressed in the modern West, and its social history ignored. It attempts to break the "olfactory silence" of modernity by offering an exploration of the cultural role of odours in Western history and in a wide variety of non-Western societies.