Past scents : historical perspectives on smell /
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 env...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Urbana [Illinois] :
University of Illinois Press,
2014.
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| Series: | Studies in sensory history.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT CONNECT |
Table of 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.
