Article: Aroma: The Cultural History of Smell.

It was not so very long ago that while the history of ideas was energetically pursued the history of the body was utterly neglected, and similar intellectual snobberies also held back approaches to the history of the senses. When in the 1980s this situation began to change, it was significantly the most prestigious senses, vision and hearing, that first secured their historians. To anyone acquainted with the traditional sensory hierarchy, it will come as no surprise that - despite Alain Corbin's pioneering Le Miasme et la Jonquille: L'Odorat et l'Imaqinaire Social. 18e-19e Siecles (Paris: Aubier Montaigne, 1982; translated as The Foul and the Fragrant: Odor and the French ...

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