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Aroma
Author | : Constance Classen |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 2002-11-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1134822391 |
Smell is a social phenomenon, given particular meanings and values by different cultures. Odours form the building blocks of cosmologies, class hierarchies, and political odours. They can enforce social structures or transgress them, unite people or divide them, empower or disempower. The authors argue that the sociology of smell is repressed in the modern West, and its social history ignored. This book breaks the "olfactory silence" of modernity. It offers the first comprehensive exploration of the cultural role of odours in Western history - from antiquity to the present. It also covers a wide variey of non-Western societies. 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. Its subject matter will fascinate anyone who likes to nose around in the inner workings of culture.
The Pathless Land
Author | : Joyce Collin-Smith |
Publisher | : Authors On Line Ltd |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Occultism |
ISBN | : 9780755200955 |
The Pathless Land is the fruition of a lifetime's work emerging from the one who has herself emerged from the shadow of great spiritual masters. The tremendous range and depth of this work takes you through the spectrum of esoteric experience from Astrology to Zaphkiel. This is a classic text from a true master, one who has known and practised with the greatest gurus and enlightened teachers.
A Dictionary of Miracles
Author | : Ebenezer Cobham Brewer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 676 |
Release | : 1901 |
Genre | : Miracles |
ISBN | : |
Smell in Eighteenth-Century England
Author | : William Tullett |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2019-08-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0192582453 |
In England from the 1670s to the 1820s a transformation took place in how smell and the senses were viewed. The role of smell in developing medical and scientific knowledge came under intense scrutiny, and the equation of smell with disease was actively questioned. Yet a new interest in smell's emotive and idiosyncratic dimensions offered odour a new power in the sociable spaces of eighteenth-century England. Using a wide range of sources from diaries, letters, and sanitary records to satirical prints, consumer objects, and magazines, William Tullett traces how individuals and communities perceived the smells around them, from paint and perfume to onions and farts. In doing so, the study challenges a popular, influential, and often cited narrative. Smell in Eighteenth-Century England is not a tale of the medicalization and deodorization of English olfactory culture. Instead, Tullett demonstrates that it was a new recognition of smell's asocial-sociability, and its capacity to create atmospheres of uncomfortable intimacy, that transformed the relationship between the senses and society.
Aroma
Author | : Constance Classen |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2002-11 |
Genre | : Health & Fitness |
ISBN | : 1134822405 |
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.
An Odor of Sanctity
Author | : Frank Yerby |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 586 |
Release | : 1965 |
Genre | : Spain |
ISBN | : |
A handsome Visigoth noble, Alaric Teudisson, struggles with the forces of good and evil within him and his fate to be the king as Medieval Spain is torn assunder by religious wars.