A sociology of smell

A Synnott - Canadian Review of Sociology/Revue canadienne …, 1991 - Wiley Online Library
Rares sont les sociologues qui ont étudié les sens. Or, de tous les sens, c'est l'odorat qui a
toujours été et demeure sans doute encore le moins valorisé. Dans cette communication …

The sociology of odors

GP Largey, DR Watson - American Journal of Sociology, 1972 - journals.uchicago.edu
Despite their many endeavors, sociologists have yet to systematically analyze the
significance of olfactory phenomena in human interaction. In this essay, theauthors explore …

Olfaction and transition: an essay on the ritual uses of smell

D Howes - Canadian Review of Sociology/Revue canadienne …, 1987 - Wiley Online Library
11 ya une connexion intrins6que entre I'olfaction et la transition, c'est‐8‐dire, le changement
de catkgories. Etant donnk que cette association se retrouve dans le contexte des divers …

The odor of the other: olfactory symbolism and cultural categories

C Classen - Ethos, 1992 - JSTOR
This essay looks at a variety of ways in which social categ constructed and conveyed by
olfactory codes in different cu The importance of olfactory symbolism in the West and else …

[PDF][PDF] The field of odors: toward a universal language for odor relationships

JN Jaubert, C Tapiero, JC Dore - Perfumer and flavorist, 1995 - img.perfumerflavorist.com
Al, odorshatwesme, ltng-ger feelings and sensations that affect our memory and psyche. It is
when we by to express the odor in terms that would be universaffy understoodtbat we find …

Olfaction and cognition: A philosophical and psychoanalytic view

A Le Guérer - Olfaction, taste, and cognition, 2002 - books.google.com
“Are you not ashamed to believe that the nose is a means to find God?” wrote Saint
Augustine (1873) in his refutation of the Manichaeans in 389 CE Fifteen centuries later …

Foundations for an anthropology of the senses

C Classen - International social science journal, 1997 - Wiley Online Library
The fundamental premiss underlying the concept of an 'anthropology of the senses' is that
sensory perception is a cultural, as well as a physical, act. That is, sight, hearing, touch, taste …

Those things that hold us together: Taste and sociology

A Hennion - Cultural sociology, 2007 - journals.sagepub.com
The idea of reflexivity has much to offer to the analysis of taste-but reflexivity in its ancient
sense, a form neither active nor passive, pointing to an originary state where things …

Body, psyche, and culture: The relationship between disgust and morality

J Haidt, P Rozin, C McCauley… - Psychology and …, 1997 - journals.sagepub.com
" Core disgust" is a food related emotion that is rooted in evolution but is also a cultural
product. Seven categories of disgust elicitors have been observed in an American sample …

Accounting for tastes: Some problems in Bourdieu's sociology of culture

J Frow - Cultural Studies, 1987 - Taylor & Francis
Taste classifies, and it classifies the classifier. Social subjects, classified by their
classifications, distinguish themselves by the distinctions they make, between the beautiful …