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028			_a: Brijwasi Book Distributors _b: H-87, Lalita Park, Laxmi Nagar, Delhi _c: BW/000326 _d: 18/11/2025
082			_a391.63 CLA
100			_aClassen, Constance.
100			_a; Howes, David.
100			_a; Synnott, Anthony.
245			_aAroma _b: The Cultural History of Smell. _c/ Constance Classen.
260			_a, New York _b: Routledge _c, 1994.
300			_avii, 248p. _c: 24cm.
365			_b4312
520			_aSmell 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.
650			_aCultures
650			_aCosmologies
650			_aWestern history
700			_aConstance Classen
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