4: Episode 4 - Perfumed Monkeys and Masked Madams

The Past and Stuff

In this episode we talk about impact we have had on our planet in the Anthropocene, moves to end child marriage in the US, an Egyptian monkey that smelled really good and aristocratic ladies and sex workers both going to the theater with a full face covering.
Tracey’s Stuff in the News
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jul/12/michigan-child-marriage-law-signed
https://michiganadvance.com/2023/07/11/child-marriage-is-now-banned-in-michigan/
https://www.unicef.org/child-rights-convention
https://www.girlsnotbrides.org/about-child-marriage/
Tracey’s Piece of Stuff
https://www.npr.org/sections/pictureshow/2023/03/13/1157657246/iran-hijab-protest-regime-politics-religion-mahsa-amini
https://www.npr.org/2022/06/19/1105962389/france-burkini-swimsuit-islamic-women
https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/402520
https://costumehistorian.blogspot.com/vizard
https://concealedgarments.org/
Photo Credit: By The British Museum - Portable Antiquities Scheme item record NARC-151A67, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=28871326

Giulia Montanari, “When Creepy Face Masks Were the Coolest Fashion Item,” Medium, 10 Jun, 2022, accessed on 17 July, 2023. https://medium.com/exploring-history/when-creepy-face-masks-were-the-coolest-fashion-item-51c5abcb2398

“A 16th Century “Visard’ Mask,” Belphoebe’s Web Page, accessed 17 July 2023. https://www.houseffg.org/belphoebe/Research/Masks/Index.html

Braden Phillips, “Celebrated, Scorned, and Banned, face masks have fired passions throughout history,” accessed on 17 July, 2023 at https://cuencahighlife.com/celebrated-scorned-and-banned-face-masks-have-fired-passions-throughout-history/

“Vizards and Invisories: ladies’ Masks in the 16th and 17th Centuries, Medieval and Renaissance Material Culture accessed on 17 July 2023. http://www,larsdatter.com/vizard.htm

Ashley’s Stuff in the News
Jonathan Amos, “The Anthropocene: Canadian Lake Mud 'Symbolic of Human Changes to Earth,'” BBC News, July 12, 2023, https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-66132769.
“NOVA: Making North America: Origins,” PBS, November 4, 2015, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9kvYj4y444.
Ashley’s Piece of Stuff
Metropolitan Museum of Art, “Perfume Vessel in Shape of a Monkey,” https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/545265.
Carolyn Riccardelli, “Egyptian Faience: Technology and Production,” in Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, December 2017, https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/egfc/hd_egfc.htm#:~:text=There%20were%20various%20manufacturing%20methods,e.g.%2C%20copper%20originating%20from%20metal.
Tabitha Morgan, “Bronze Age Perfume ‘Discovered,’” BBC News, March 19, 2005, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4364469.stm.
"Perfume Bottle," Encyclopedia Britannica, July 20, 1998, https://www.britannica.com/topic/perfume-bottle.
Article about ancient veiling (Ashley mentioned during Tracey’s Piece of Stuff): Llewellyn-Jones, Lloyd. “House and Veil in Ancient Greece.” British School at Athens Studies 15 (2007): 251-8.
Music Credits:
Background Music: Stars (Extended) by Vlad Gluschenko | https://soundcloud.com/vgl9
Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com
Creative Commons / Attribution 3.0 Unported License (CC BY 3.0)
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Intro/Outro/Interlude Music composed by Ashley Bozian
Cover Art
Photo by Tracey Cooper .