Scented Entanglements
On olfactory racism and the ‘forgetting’ of odours and scents in the anthropological study of ‘race’
Shortly before the first Corona lockdown in spring 2020, I was busy preparing for fieldwork in Turkey on a much neglected topic in the scholarly literature on beauty, namely the role of odours and fragrances. Reading up on the history of smell cultures and perfumes (ultimately unable to leave for fieldwork), I began talking to […]
