"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. Constance Classen is the author of Inca Cosmology and the Human Body and Worlds of Sense David Howes is the editor of The Varieties of Sensory Experience and. Its subject matter will fascinate anyone who likes to nose around in the inner workings of culture. Aroma: The Cultural History of Smell Constance Classen, David Howes, Anthony Synnott Taylor & Francis, 1994 - Odors - 248 pages 0 Reviews Reviews aren't verified, but Google checks for and. Its topics range from the medieval concept of the "odour of sanctity", to the aromatherapies of South America, and from olfactory stereotypes of gender and ethnicity in the modern West to the role of smell in postmodernity.
It also covers a wide variey of non-Western societies. It offers the first comprehensive exploration of the cultural role of odours in Western history - from antiquity to the present. This book breaks the "olfactory silence" of modernity. The authors argue that the sociology of smell is repressed in the modern West, and its social history ignored. They can enforce social structures or transgress them, unite people or divide them, empower or disempower. Odours form the building blocks of cosmologies, class hierarchies, and political odours. Smell is a social phenomenon, given particular meanings and values by different cultures.
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