Past scents : historical perspectives on smell / Jonathan Reinarz.

By:

Reinarz, Jonathan [author.]

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780252096020
0252096029
1306980941
9781306980944

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Past scents : historical perspectives on smell.DDC classification:

612.8/6 23

LOC classification:

QP458 .R456 2014eb

NLM classification:

2014 F-918
WA 11.1

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Contents:

Introduction: picking up the scent -- Heavenly scents: religions and smell -- Fragrant lucre: the perfume trade -- Odorous others: race and smell -- Seduction and subversion: gender and smell -- Uncommon scents: class and smell -- Mapping the smellscape: smell and the city -- Conclusion: beyond the foul and fragrant.

Summary: In this comprehensive and engaging volume, medical historian Jonathan Reinarz offers a historiography of smell from ancient to modern times. Synthesizing existing scholarship in the field, he shows how people have relied on their olfactory sense to understand and engage with both their immediate environments and wider corporal and spiritual worlds.

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Includes index.

Print verison record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

In this comprehensive and engaging volume, medical historian Jonathan Reinarz offers a historiography of smell from ancient to modern times. Synthesizing existing scholarship in the field, he shows how people have relied on their olfactory sense to understand and engage with both their immediate environments and wider corporal and spiritual worlds.

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