FRETTING ABOUT THE EMERGENCE OF PLASTIC RECEPTACLES AS A DEBASEMENT OF A CARVING CULTURE IN NIGERIA

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  • YUSUF, A. ABDULRASAQ School of Vocational and Technical Education, Department of Fine and Applied Arts, Federal University of Education, Zaria, Kaduna state Author

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https://doi.org/10.70382/

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carving, calabash, disruption, economics, plastic

Abstract

There is no doubt that modernity has continued to play a vital role in the ease of life for humanity overtime, this is experienced with the several machines, equipment and other articles of utilities that inventions have made possible for the various benefits to man. Among such articles of daily utility are receptacles and other utensils made from plastic. That this magical material has come with an attending concern is an enough worry to espouse its consequences. This paper therefore mused over the debilitating effect of the coming of plastic as a disruption to the traditional carving culture in Nigeria. The paper highlighted that the act of traditional calabash carving has been a means of cultural sustenance since ages as well as being an avenue of job security for the various ethnic groups of Nigeria, aside from the other debilitating environmental issues that plastic articles have come to present, it was discovered that the concepts of complacency and convenience have been the two main pivots that have stimulated further damage to an age long system of economic survival and tradition. The paper concluded by recommending that issues of cultural preservation is paramount if job insecurity is to be avoided and to stem the tide of a particular indigenous practice that is being eroded by the trend of plastic articles. 

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31-10-2024

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YUSUF, A. ABDULRASAQ. (2024). FRETTING ABOUT THE EMERGENCE OF PLASTIC RECEPTACLES AS A DEBASEMENT OF A CARVING CULTURE IN NIGERIA. Journal of Biodiversity and Environmental Research, 6(4). https://doi.org/10.70382/

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