Anthony Synnot

Thursday, August 21, 2025 05:12PM

From page 131:

The association between smell and the limbic system explains why smells evoke memories, instinctive reactions, and feelings such as attraction or disgust or why sacred scents--incense in temples, sweetgrass in tipis--can awaken ancient ways of knowing. (see endnote #21 on page 362).

From page 362, endnote #21:

"For a bouquet of olfactory information and resources, contact the Olfactory Research fund, 145 East Thirty-second St., New York, NY 10016-6002; (212/725-2755).

See its

Compendium of Olfactory Research: Explorations in Aroma-Chology: Investigating the Sense of Smell and Human Response to Odors, 1982-1994.

The reader is also referred to the following excellent works:

David Howes, ed. The Varieties of Sensory Experience: A Sourcebook in the Anthropology of the Senses (Toronto, Ontario: University of Toronto Press, 1991), and

Constance Classen, David Howes, and Anthony Synnot, Aroma: The Cultural History of Smell (New York: Routledge, 1994)