In this comprehensive and engaging volume, medical historian
Jonathan Reinarz offers a historiography of smell from ancient to
modern times. Synthesizing existing scholarship in the field, he
shows how people have relied on their olfactory sense to understand
and engage with both their immediate environments and wider
corporal and spiritual worlds. This broad survey demonstrates how
each community or commodity possesses, or has been thought to
possess, its own peculiar scent. Through the meanings associated
with smells, osmologies develop--what cultural anthropologists have
termed the systems that utilize smells to classify people and
objects in ways that define their relations to each other and their
relative values within a particular culture. European Christians,
for instance, relied on their noses to differentiate Christians
from heathens, whites from people of color, women from men, virgins
from harlots, artisans from aristocracy, and pollution from
perfume. This reliance on smell was not limited to the global
North. Around the world, Reinarz shows, people used scents to
signify individual and group identity in a morally constructed
universe where the good smelled pleasant and their opposites
reeked. With chapters including "Heavenly Scents," "Fragrant
Lucre," and "Odorous Others," Reinarz's timely survey is a useful
and entertaining look at the history of one of our most important
but least-understood senses.
General
| Imprint: |
University of Illinois Press
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| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Series: |
Studies in Sensory History |
| Release date: |
February 2014 |
| First published: |
February 2014 |
| Authors: |
Jonathan Reinarz
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| Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 23mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback
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| Pages: |
296 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-252-07979-5 |
| Categories: |
Books
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| LSN: |
0-252-07979-5 |
| Barcode: |
9780252079795 |
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