Clean : a history of personal hygiene and purity
Smith, Virginia2007
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From pre-historic grooming rituals to New Age medicine, from ascetics to cosmetics, Smith looks at how different cultures have interpreted and striven for personal cleanliness and shows how, throughout history, this striving for purity has brought great social benefits as well as great tragedies.
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Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2007.
Collation:
viii, 457 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Notes:
Includes index.Bibliography: p. 433-436.
ISBN:
01992977979780199297795 (hbk)
Dewey class:
613.4'09613.409
Language:
English
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BRN:
13437