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Od kości słoniowej do plastiku, czyli nienaturalna historia materialności w epoce antropocenu

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Szczygielska M.
Kultura Współczesna. Teoria. Interpretacje. Praktyka
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2021
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vol. 113
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issue 1
28-42
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A global demand for ivory has caused a decimation of two endangered species: the African elephant and the Indian elephant. At the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, ivory was a popular material for the production of everyday objects. Appreciated for its physical properties (durability, flexibility, malleability), this valuable material obtained from elephant tusks was widely used in the production of billiard balls, piano keytops, cutlery handles, buttons, and jewellery, defining the material culture also outside the areas of elephants’ natural habitats. It was not until plastic entered mass production that ivory was replaced as a bourgeois material for daily use. This historical insight into the transition from killing elephants for ‘white gold’ to the boom of the plastic age prompts a materially oriented analysis of the Anthropocene through the prism of human–animal relationships, colonial exploitation of natural resources, and the origins of Western consumer culture. Forming multiple links between nature and culture, ivory emerges as the ultimate artefact of the Anthropocene.
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Biblia jako źródło do badań nad kontaktami handlowymi świata grecko-rzymskiego z południową i wschodnią Azją

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Modzelewski S.
Studia Antiquitatis et Medii Aevi Incohantis
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2023
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vol. 8
5-26
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The Bible mentions several luxury goods (sapphire, emerald, carnelian, topaz, silk, ivory, spikenard, cinnamon, amomum) that were imported by the Roman Empire from South and East Asia via various routes during the 1st-4th centuries CE. The list of goods that appear in the pages of the New Testament testifies to the sound understanding of economic realities that were displayed by the biblical authors and corresponds to the knowledge of Rome's trade contacts with Asian countries.
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