The Doubling of Shadow. Notes from an Ethnography of Life Cover Image

W podwojonym cieniu Zapiski z etnografii życia
The Doubling of Shadow. Notes from an Ethnography of Life

Author(s): Wojciech Józef
Subject(s): Sociology of Education
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
Keywords: ethnography; memory; metaphor; identity; narrative; vivisection

Summary/Abstract: The paper is an attempt to present the idea of an ethnography of life understood as a formative narrative on the shaping of one’s identity diachronically as well as from the perspective of key metaphors penetrating the trajectory of the whole life. Ethnography of life is a kind of intellectual and emotional vivisection, a reflexive autotherapy which highlights the different contexts and crucial moments that shape what we often call a scientific biography. The key metaphor of this story is “the doubling of shadow” – the passing of the loved ones, and life in the shadow of the postwar reality of the People’s Republic of Poland.

  • Issue Year: 2/2016
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 158-170
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: Polish