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Wyobrażenia o narodzie we wsiach podhalańskich
National imaginaries in the Podhale region

Author(s): Anna Malewska-Szałygin
Subject(s): Agriculture, History of ideas, Recent History (1900 till today), Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology
Published by: Instytut Slawistyki Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Keywords: nation; Podhale region; village discourses; social imaginaries; local knowledge; ethnography;

Summary/Abstract: The article answers the question of the durability of national categories in local village discourses. By presenting the results of the research conducted using the ethnographic method in the villages of Podhale in the first years of the 21st century, it diagnoses the popularity of national ideas in their primordial form and argues that the reason behind the durability of national ideas in common conversations about politics results from the correlation between the national-conservative rhetoric and the village imaginaries that had been created during the multigenerational experience of working on an agricultural farm.

  • Issue Year: 2017
  • Issue No: 49
  • Page Range: 0-0
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: Polish