Past Scents: Historical Perspectives on Smell

Offers a historiography of smell from ancient to modern times. Synthesizing existing scholarship in the field, this book shows how people have relied on their olfactory sense to understand and engage with both their immediate environments and wider corporal and spiritual worlds.

• | Author: Jonathan Reinarz
• | Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• | Publication Date: Feb 21, 2014
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• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-13: 9780252079795
• | ISBN-10: 0252079795