Art Informant
A space for lovers, actors and welcomers to Islamic and Indian arts, to explore the actuality of the art market, exhibition and research.Every episode, join Isabelle Imbert as the Art Informant in conversations with specialists of the Islamic and Indian art history and art market.
Art Informant
Archaeology of Smells with Sterenn Le Maguer
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Isabelle Imbert
In the first episode of 2023, Isabelle Imbert welcomes Dr Sterenn Le Maguer, archaeologist and specialist of the history of incense trade in the Islamic world before the 16th century. Sterenn is what we could call an archaeologist of smells, but she’s also the first archaeologist to come on the podcast, so in the episode, we talk about methodology and techniques of archaeology, but also of smell profiles and the importance of incense consumption in Islamic societies.
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Mentioned in the Episode and Additional Information
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- Archaios: Archaeology, Culture & Heritage
- Anya H. King, Scent from the Garden of Paradise. Musk and the Medieval Islamic World, Brill, 2017.
- Axelle Rougeulle, Sharma: Un entrepôt de commerce medieval sur la côte du Ḥaḍramawt (Yémen, ca 980-1180), Archaeopress Archaeology, 2015
- SENSIS: The senses of Islam, research programme in the university of Utrecht
- "This Ancient Mud Skyscraper City is the 'Manhattan of the Desert'" National Geographic
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