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Autore |
Reinarz Jonathan |
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Past scents : historical perspectives on smell / / Jonathan Reinarz |
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Urbana, [Illinois] : , : University of Illinois Press, , 2014 |
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©2014 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (297 p.) |
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Collana |
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Studies in Sensory History |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Odors - History |
Odors - Social aspects |
Smell - History |
Perfumes - History |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Introduction: picking up the scent: ways of smelling -- Heavenly scents: smell and religion -- Fragrant lucre: the perfume trade -- Odorous others: race and smells -- Seduction and subversion: gender and smell -- Uncommon scents: class and smell -- Mapping the smellscape: smell and the city -- Conclusion: beyond the foul and fragrant. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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. |
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