Shopping and the Senses, 1800-1970
A Sensory History of Retail and Consumption
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Beschreibung
This book demonstrates the primacy of touch, smell, taste, sight and sound within the retail landscape. It shows that histories of the senses, body, and emotions were inextricably intertwined with processes and practices of retail and consumption. Shops are sensory feasts. From the rustle of silk to the tempting aroma of coffee, the multi-sensory appeal of goods has long been at the heart of how we shop. This book delves into and beyond this seductive idyl of consumer sensuality. Shopping was a sensory activity for consumers and retailers alike, but this experience was not always positive. This book is inhabited by tired feet and weary workers, as well as eager shoppers. It considers embodied sensory experiences and practices, and it represents both a celebration and interrogation of the integration of sensory histories into the study of retail and consumption. Crucially, this book places breathing, feeling human bodies back into the retail space.
Provides the first collection to look at the sensory nature of consumption and retail Offers nuanced reimaginings of how shops functioned as cultural, social and political spaces Connects histories of shopping, retail, and consumption with histories of the body and the emotions
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Serena Dyer
Themen in »Shopping and the Senses, 1800-1970«
dress history history of emotions material culture retail and consumption sensory experiences