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Between the Sounds of Skalne Podhale. Contemporary Highlander Culture

Między dźwiękami Skalnego Podhala. Współczesna góralszczyzna

Author(s): Maria Małanicz-Przybylska / Language(s): Polish

Keywords: Podhale; tradition; highlanders’ music; highlanders’ culture; anthropology of music

This book is the outcome of the ethnographic field research conducted by the author in Skalne Podhale region in the years of 2011–2015. The analysis of the material collected during the research – the interlocutors’ statements and situations and events observed, prompted the author to make an attempt to answer the questions about the meaning of musical tradition for the contemporary highlanders, its role in their everyday life as well as its impact on the process of self-determination and developing the local identity.

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Embodied in motion: Polish female professional runners in anthropological perspective

Ucieleśnione w ruchu. Polskie biegaczki wyczynowe w perspektywie antropologicznej

Author(s): Karolina Szyma / Language(s): Polish

Keywords: running; anthropology of sport; anthropology of the body; agency; femininity; senses

An anthropological look at physicality in women’s professional running from the point of view of authoethnography, anthropology of the body and anthropology of sport. The Author adopts two complementary perspectives: an internal one, that is, a registration of the experience of running through the senses, as well as an external one, which is an attempt at showing how female runners are subjected to discipline and at the same time how the female agency is construed in professional running.

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Lelów inhabitants, Poles, Jews. Ethnographical studies in constructing local heritage

Lelowianie, Polacy, Żydzi. Szkice etnograficzne o konstruowaniu lokalnego dziedzictwa

Author(s): / Language(s): Polish

Keywords: Polish countryside heritage; food anthropology; food heritage; Jews; Hasids; local heritage; Lelów

A collection of articles based on materials obtained during ethnographical fieldwork in Lelów and neighbouring towns. The authors describe activities connected to the construction of local heritage, analysing them in the broader context of the memory of Lelów’s past and its inhabitants, the memory of the Jewish community and the Holocaust, as well as in relation to the experiences of the interviewees resulting from contact with the Hasids who visit Lelów contemporarily.

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Agricultural work and survival strategies. A study in economic anthropology

Rolnicze strategie pracy i przetrwania. Studium z antropologii ekonomicznej

Author(s): Amanda Krzyworzeka / Language(s): Polish

Keywords: agriculture; countryside; agricultural work strategies; agricultural survival strategies

The book is devoted to agricultural work and survival strategies, to everyday ways of dealing with reality, and to constant attempts to change it so that life is as easy and as good as possible. The starting point are issues related to the economic sphere of farmers' activity, but – in line with the thesis that economic activities are immersed in a social and cultural context – the book contains many other threads inextricably linked with the strategies of work and survival.

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Series:Badania etnograficzne

Between the Sounds of Skalne Podhale. Contemporary Highlander Culture

Między dźwiękami Skalnego Podhala. Współczesna góralszczyzna

Embodied in motion: Polish female professional runners in anthropological perspective

Ucieleśnione w ruchu. Polskie biegaczki wyczynowe w perspektywie antropologicznej

Lelów inhabitants, Poles, Jews. Ethnographical studies in constructing local heritage

Lelowianie, Polacy, Żydzi. Szkice etnograficzne o konstruowaniu lokalnego dziedzictwa

Agricultural work and survival strategies. A study in economic anthropology

Rolnicze strategie pracy i przetrwania. Studium z antropologii ekonomicznej