Past scents : historical perspectives on smell / Jonathan Reinarz.
Material type: TextSeries: Studies in sensory historyPublisher: Urbana [Illinois] : University of Illinois Press, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Description: 1 online resource (297 pages)Content type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780252096020
- 0252096029
- 1306980941
- 9781306980944
- Odors -- History
- Odors -- Social aspects
- Smell -- History
- Perfumes -- History
- Smell
- Odors
- Perfume -- history
- Smell
- History, 19th Century
- History, 20th Century
- Odorants
- Race Relations -- history
- Socioeconomic Factors -- history
- Odeurs -- Histoire
- Odeurs -- Aspect social
- Odorat -- Histoire
- Parfums -- Histoire
- Odorat
- Médecine -- Histoire -- 19e siècle
- Médecine -- Histoire -- 20e siècle
- Odeurs
- smell (sense)
- odors
- MEDICAL -- Physiology
- SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Human Anatomy & Physiology
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural
- Odors
- Odors -- Social aspects
- Perfumes
- Smell
- Geruch
- Geruchswahrnehmung
- Parfüm
- Lukter -- sociala aspekter -- historia
- Lukt -- historia
- Parfym -- historia
- 612.8/6 23
- QP458 .R456 2014eb
- 2014 F-918
- WA 11.1
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Includes index.
Print verison record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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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