01714nam a22002537a 4500 20251127115724.0 251127b |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9780415114738 : Brijwasi Book Distributors : H-87, Lalita Park, Laxmi Nagar, Delhi : BW/000326 : 18/11/2025 391.63 CLA Classen, Constance. ; Howes, David. ; Synnott, Anthony. Aroma : The Cultural History of Smell. / Constance Classen. , New York : Routledge , 1994. vii, 248p. : 24cm. 4312 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. Cultures Cosmologies Western history Constance Classen BOOK 66653 66653 0 0 ddc 0 0 SNUL SNUL 2025-11-27 Brijwasi Book Distributors 4312.00 2 3 391.63 CLA 31251 2026-08-17 2026-04-22 13:55:06 2026-04-22 2025-11-27 BOOK