Facebook X YouTube Instagram Pinterest NetGalley
Google Books previews are unavailable because you have chosen to turn off third party cookies for enhanced content. Visit our cookies page to review your cookie settings.

Clean (Hardback)

A History of Personal Hygiene and Purity

P&S History > Archaeology > Archaeological Method & Theory

Imprint: Oxford University Press
Pages: 457
Illustrations: b/w illus
ISBN: 9780199297795
Published: 31st December 2007
Casemate UK Academic

in_stock

£7.95 RRP £16.99

You save £9.04 (53%)


You'll be £7.95 closer to your next £10.00 credit when you purchase Clean. What's this?
+£4.99 UK Delivery or free UK delivery if order is over £40
(click here for international delivery rates)

Order within the next 2 hours, 21 minutes to get your order processed the next working day!

Need a currency converter? Check XE.com for live rates



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. It is probably safe to say that no-one who reads this book will look at his or her body (or bathroom) in quite the same way again.

There are no reviews for this book. Register or Login now and you can be the first to post a review!

Other titles in Oxford University Press...