Past Scents Studies in Sensory History  -  Jonathan Reinarz

KORTE INHOUD

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 associa...
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2014 Uitgever: University Of Illinois Press 296 paginas Taal: Engels ISBN-10: 0252079795 ISBN-13: 9780252079795