The Smell Culture Reader (Sensory Formations) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1845202139 ISBN 13: 9781845202132

Publisher: Routledge, 2006

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1845202139
• ISBN 13: 9781845202132
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 454
• Editor: Drobnick Jim