Terrible Beauty: Elephant - Human - Ivory
Terrible Beauty: Elephant - Human - Ivory A cultural history of ivory, from piano keys to poachers.Piano keys. Ivory has been in high demand for centuries and across cultures--but at great cost to…
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Terrible Beauty: Elephant - Human - Ivory
A cultural history of ivory, from piano keys to poachers.Piano keys. Ivory has been in high demand for centuries and across cultures--but at great cost to the elephants from which it comes. Chess pieces. Jewelry.
How has it been used in the past and the present? What sort of material is ivory? And what can we do today to protect the world's largest land mammals from poachers?
This lavishly illustrated volume traces the cultural history of ivory as a decorative object and the cause of elephants' decades-long place on the endangered species list. The book approaches its subject critically and asks what exactly our responsibility is when dealing with ivory as a beautiful material with cruel origins. Terribly Beautiful is edited by the Stiftung Humboldt Forum im Berliner Schloss, which is the owner of and operator of the Humboldt Forum, and will accompany the first
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TERRIBLE 2
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