Odorama: Historia cultural del olor (Spanish Edition)

Odorama: Historia cultural del olor (Spanish Edition)

by Federico Kukso

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437 pages~7.3 hr readPublished by TAURUSPublished 2019-12-01

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  • You're fascinated by the overlooked sensory dimensions of history and love learning how everyday experiences shaped civilization.
  • You enjoy narrative nonfiction that connects wildly different topics through a single lens, from ancient Egypt to space exploration.
  • You appreciate books that make you notice things you've taken for granted, like how smell has quietly influenced human behaviour and memory.

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  • You want a traditional timeline or straightforward historical narrative rather than a thematic exploration across centuries.
  • You struggle with books that move frequently between anecdotes and need more systematic structure to stay engaged.
  • You prefer science writing focused strictly on the biology of olfaction rather than cultural stories and historical connections.

About this book

Since living requires breathing and breathing necessarily involves smelling, this book presents the first cultural history of odor. It compiles remarkable and little-known stories that connect humanity's past, present, and future through the olfactory dimension of our lives. The book explores questions such as how dinosaurs smelled, what aromas dominated ancient Egypt, how foul Paris, London, New York, and Buenos Aires were in the past, what astronauts smelled on the Moon, and what stars, galaxies, and black holes smell like. Aromas, perfumes, fragrances, and odors influence how we feel and what we think. Omnipresent, smells function as machines of time and space, transporting us to different moments and places in our lives. Yet odors are elusive: there are insufficient words in our vocabulary to fully describe what we smell, and no device can capture the olfactory fingerprint of an era. Often overlooked and undervalued, odors leave traces in chronicles, medical records, culinary documentation, hieroglyphics, and romantic letters. The planet's past and each person's history is inscribed in the memory of their odors.

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