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Past scents : historical perspectives on smell / Jonathan Reinarz.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Reinarz, Jonathan, author.
- Series:
- Studies in sensory history.
- Studies in Sensory History
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Odors--History.
- Odors.
- Odors--Social aspects.
- Smell--History.
- Smell.
- Perfumes--History.
- Perfumes.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (297 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Urbana, [Illinois] : University of Illinois Press, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- 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.
- Contents:
- Introduction: picking up the scent: ways of smelling
- Heavenly scents: smell and religion
- Fragrant lucre: the perfume trade
- Odorous others: race and smells
- Seduction and subversion: gender and smell
- Uncommon scents: class and smell
- Mapping the smellscape: smell and the city
- Conclusion: beyond the foul and fragrant.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Includes index.
- Description based on print verison record.
- ISBN:
- 9780252096020
- 0252096029
- OCLC:
- 884725799
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