Scents and scent-sibilities :: smell and everyday life experiences /

Smells are distinct and ubiquitous. They envelope us, enter our bodies, and emanate from us. Yet, they remain relegated to the background of everyday life experiences. This book attempts to highlight the social salience of smell in social actors' day-to-day encounters where issues involving mor...

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1. Verfasser: Low, Kelvin E. Y.
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2009.
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Zusammenfassung:Smells are distinct and ubiquitous. They envelope us, enter our bodies, and emanate from us. Yet, they remain relegated to the background of everyday life experiences. This book attempts to highlight the social salience of smell in social actors' day-to-day encounters where issues involving morality and social othering, presentation of self, and personhood intertwine with analyses of smell as a social conduit. These encounters include the experiences of anosmic individuals, which capture non- ...
Beschreibung:1 online resource (viii, 204 pages)
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-192) and index.
ISBN:9781443803069
1443803065
1282035940
9781282035942
9786612035944
6612035943

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