Deodorized Culture: Anthropology of Smell in America

The sense of smell, though rarely considered important in America, clearly delineates cultural boundaries; this is both demonstrated and promoted through marketing and advertising of consumer products. Historical analyses is invoked to explain why Americans have different tolerances for body odor th...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: MacPhee, Marybeth
Language:en_US
Published: University of Arizona, Department of Anthropology 1992
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10150/112059