Aroma: The Cultural History of Smell

by Constance Classen, Anthony Synnott, David Howes

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 041511473X
• ISBN13: 9780415114738
• Release Date: November 1994
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.5"