by Constance Classen (Author), David Howes (Author), Anthony Synnott (Author), Anthony Synnott (Author), Constance Classen (Author), David Howes (Author)
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
Pages: 260
Edition: 1
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 24 Nov 1994
ISBN 10: 0415114721
ISBN 13: 9780415114721