Aroma: The Cultural History of Smell

By Constance Classen, Anthony Synnott, David Howes

Book Overview

This text argues that smell is repressed in the modern West, and its social history ignored. It attempts to break the "olfactory silence" of modernity by offering an exploration of the cultural role of odours in Western history and in a wide variety of non-Western societies.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415114721
• ISBN13: 9780415114721
• Release Date: November 1994
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"