From the Field Research in Szczytno District (On the Disintegration of the Mazurian Cultural Grup) Cover Image

Z badań terenowych w powiecie szczycieńskim (O dezintegracji grupy kulturowej Mazurów)
From the Field Research in Szczytno District (On the Disintegration of the Mazurian Cultural Grup)

Author(s): Piotr Biliński
Subject(s): Anthropology, Social Sciences, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology
Published by: Towarzystwo Naukowe KUL & Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II
Keywords: Masuria; Germany; Pole; autochton; Masurian community; disintegration

Summary/Abstract: The article pertain to the researches a group of contemporary Mazurians in the discrict Szczytno. The community add up to the example of regional group, that is landscaped on the Prussian, Teuton, and Slavic areas- in conditions that are between these cultures. There is a very important, not surveyed problem with evaluation of perspective the further fates this group. Dominance of factors of the historical and civilizational nature caused that over the centuries Mazurian population gave in processes of acculturation, assimilation, adaptation and unification or even globalization. Media and implementation of IT solutions of the social life favor the globalization and the social individuals take patterns and behaviors.

  • Issue Year: 13/2022
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 91-108
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: Polish