Ethnographic Experiments and Art in Rural Poland. Beyond the Culture of Shaming: Coevalness, the Inward Turn, and Proto-Sociology
Ethnographic Experiments and Art in Rural Poland. Beyond the Culture of Shaming: Coevalness, the Inward Turn, and Proto-Sociology

Summary/Abstract: This article discusses the culture of shaming – a perspective that appears where modernizing discourses on Polish society are confronted with the cultural experiences of villagers. Rakowski explores several possible ways of going beyond this perspective, referring, in turn, to the world of rural social subjectivity as it emerges from artistic and ethnographic projects, the conditions of belonging and the possibilities of performing an ‘inward turn’ in situations of intersocial encounter, and the potential to construct an alternative understanding of society – a proto-sociology. Thus artistic projects are linked with what is ethnographic and current, and above all with the possibility of an alternative social history shaped by rural communities.

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