Constance Classen: Aroma | Taschenbuch

Cover: 9780415114738 | Aroma | The Cultural History of Smell | Constance Classen (u. a.)

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Beschreibung

Smell is a social phenomenon, given particular meanings and values by different cultures. Odours form the building blocks of cosmologies, class hierarchies, and political odours. They can enforce social structures or transgress them, unite people or divide them, empower or disempower. The authors argue that the sociology of smell is repressed in the modern West, and its social history ignored. This book breaks the "olfactory silence" of modernity. It offers the first comprehensive exploration of the cultural role of odours in Western history - from antiquity to the present. It also covers a wide variey of non-Western societies. Its topics range from the medieval concept of the "odour of sanctity", to the aromatherapies of South America, and from olfactory stereotypes of gender and ethnicity in the modern West to the role of smell in postmodernity. Its subject matter will fascinate anyone who likes to nose around in the inner workings of culture.

Über den Autor

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.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Erscheinungsjahr:	1994
Genre:	Soziologie
Rubrik:	Wissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13:	9780415114738
ISBN-10:	041511473X
Sprache:	Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage:	Paperback
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Classen, Constance Howes, David Synnott, Anthony
Hersteller:	Routledge
Maße:	216 x 140 x 15 mm
Von/Mit:	Constance Classen (u. a.)
Erscheinungsdatum:	24.11.1994
Gewicht:	0,371 kg

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