Marketing scents and the anthropology of smell

Social Anthropology

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 153-168

  Moeran, Brian ^a  

^a Department of International Economics and Management   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Incense production and consumption; Japan; Olfactory marketing; Situated meanings of smell

Indexed keywords

EID: 36749008112     PISSN: 09640282     EISSN: 14698676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0964-0282.2007.00014.x     Document Type: Article

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