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Allotments, the Edges of the Landscape

Summary/Abstract: The edges of European towns are often filled with conspicuously present allotments. The text draws attention to their extreme character in the geographical, aesthetic and existential meaning of the term. By evoking examples from Marseilles, London, Vienna and Cracow the author discussed allotments as a manner of residing in the landscape in contrast to its common visual consumption. The conclusions presented in the article were preceded by research conducted at the Ethnographic Museum in Cracow in 2009-2012 by a team of twenty researchers (including anthropologists, sociologists, historians of art, and ethnobotanists) in Cracow, Katowice, and Wrocław. The research project, known as “work-allotment”, ended with an exhibition and a publication of the out-come of the work performed by the team: a copious book bearing the same title.

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