The Smell Culture Reader by Drobnick, Jim

The Smell Culture Reader (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781845202125)

Vendor: Jim Drobnick
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Format: Hardcover
$170.00
$170.00
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The Smell Culture Reader by Drobnick, Jim

The Smell Culture Reader

$170.00
The Smell Culture Reader by Drobnick, Jim

The Smell Culture Reader

$170.00
Format: Hardcover
Description
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Smell is fundamental to experience but mired in paradox. Stigmatized as animalistic, it nonetheless feeds a vast fragrance and marketing industry. Considered ephemeral, scents have survived throughout the ages in a number of religious practices. The Smell Culture Reader provides a much-needed overview of what is arguably the most elusive sense. From hygiene to aromatherapy, the fetid to the fragrant, smells are shown to be much more than just an adornment or a nuisance. Addressing this engaging sense in redolent detail, The Smell Culture Reader demonstrates how essential smell is to sexuality, social status, personal identity, and cultural tradition.

Author: Jim Drobnick
ISBN-10: 1845202120
ISBN-13: 9781845202125
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 05/01/2006
Pages: 456
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.80lbs
Size: 9.40h x 6.34w x 1.24d
By Jim Drobnick
By Jim Drobnick
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Jim Drobnick is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Manchester. He is the editor of Aural Cultures (2004), co-author of Museopathy (2002) and CounterPoses (2002), and is working on a book on smell in contemporary art.

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