Past Scents: Historical Perspectives on Smell
(Part of the Studies in Sensory History Series)
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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. This broad survey demonstrates how each community or commodity possesses, or has been thought...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0252079795
ISBN13:9780252079795
Release Date:February 2014
Publisher:University of Illinois Press
Length:296 Pages
Weight:1.04 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 6.1" x 9.0"
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