Clean A history of personal hygiene and purity

Subconscious cleanliness has been with us since the first cell ejected a foreign invader. Even at the earliest stages of human development, our bodies produced pleasure-giving chemical opiates when things smelled or felt clean, inducing us to do things like bathing and removing dirty clothes. The ne...

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গ্রন্থ-পঞ্জীর বিবরন
প্রধান লেখক: Smith, Virginia
অন্যান্য লেখক: Virginia Smith
ভাষা:Undetermined
English
প্রকাশিত: Oxford,New York Oxford University Press 2007
বিষয়গুলি:
ট্যাগগুলো: ট্যাগ যুক্ত করুন
কোনো ট্যাগ নেই, প্রথমজন হিসাবে ট্যাগ করুন!
Thư viện lưu trữ: Trung tâm Học liệu Trường Đại học Trà Vinh
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সংক্ষিপ্ত:Subconscious cleanliness has been with us since the first cell ejected a foreign invader. Even at the earliest stages of human development, our bodies produced pleasure-giving chemical opiates when things smelled or felt clean, inducing us to do things like bathing and removing dirty clothes. The need to be clean led directly to socialization, as we turned to our fellows for help with those hard to reach spots. In Eurasia during the Bronze Age, an emerging hierarchy of wealthy elites turned their love of grooming into an explosion of the cosmetic and luxury goods industry, greatly effecting the culture and economy of a vast area and leading to advances in chemistry and medicine
দৈহিক বর্ননা:viii, 457 p.
ill.
21 cm
আইসবিএন:0199297797
9780199297795