The art without Art

The art without Art

Author(s): Filip Wróblewski / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2013

Keywords: Clifford Geertz; thick description; art; media

This article is based on an analysis of the social field of the art and cultural category designed to described human taste of aestheticism and need to art creativity. The main idea of this paper is attempt of amendment existing applied notions to the description and analyses of art. To this purpose author is using the analogy between the iconoclash notion suggested by Bruno Latour, and proposed by oneself idea of the mediaclash. This phenomenon characterized by a clash of aesthetics and usage of formal means (especially digital technologies, which are the foundations of the very existence of new media). The second proposition is arthick category, used like Clifford Geertz thick description. This concept show a procedure of interpretation that sets the meaning of particular actions within their proper context, which makes it possible to understand human creative actions and it’s connections with social field.

Postmodernizm and Irony in Cultural Anthropology

Postmodernizm a ironia w antropologii kultury

Author(s): Aleksander (Bratek) Robotycki / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 2/2013

Keywords: irony; researcher’s attitude; announcement

According to authors opinion irony is one of fundamental ideas giving us one of the ways of thinking of world around us - anthropological thought consideration. Realizing the multiplicity of meanings, polymorphism and inhomogeneous modus operandi by using it notices analogy with every aspect of anthropological recognition - from literal one to methodology and research attitude. Polymorphism of irony is ideal but very hard to use tool, moreover the one which have many ways to operate it. It wouldn´t be misuse if author aligned it with deconstruction, because the similarity is unquestioned though not directly shown in text itself. Such juxtaposition is even more justified if considered with strong philosophic perspective of R. Rorty who had written it in “Final Vocabulary” of postmodernists. The irony can´t be completely defined- being described from centuries it acumulates meanings and attempt of its exact description is pointless - it tends to be equally on same level as deconstruction as well as one above it which may be one of ways to read or construct it.

Ethnography of Belarus in the studies of the researchers from Cracow

Etnografia Białorusi w opracowaniach badaczy krakowskich

Author(s): Aliaksiej Machnacz ,Henadzi Siemianczuk / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 2/2013

Keywords: Belarus; Cracow ethnographers; K. Moszyński; J.Obrębski

The article describes the achievements of Polish scientists in the ethnological field of Belarusians and their settlement area. Primary interest in the topic is found on the pages of Cracow scientific journals from the 70-s of ХІХ century. The ethnographical studies of Belarus, especially Polesie region, made Kаzіmierz Моszyński and Józef Оbrębski. They took part in the expeditions, the results of which were published in monographs and articles. Моszyńskі used the questionnaire method. Unique materials were collected by members of the Circles of Sightseeing of Schoolchildren of the Polish Sightseeing Association, which are available the Archive of Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology of Jagiellonian University.

NOTES AND BOOK REVIEWS

NOTE ŞI RECENZII

Author(s): Dacian But-Căpuşan,Paul Siladi / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: 2/2012

Daniel Lemeni, Tradiţia paternităţii duhovniceşti în spiritualitatea creştină răsăriteană. Un studiu asupra îndrumării spirituale în Antichitatea creştină târzie, Ed. Reîntregirea, Alba-Iulia, 2012, 333 p. Pr. Prof. Acad. Dumitru Popescu – Hristos, Biserică, Misiune, relevanţa misiunii bisericii în lumea contemporană, Ed. Arhiepiscopiei Dunării de Jos, Galaţi, 2011, 284 p.

The Human Body as Project

Corpul uman ca proiect

Author(s): Laura Roxana Grünberg / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: 08/2000

Interviews at Ana

Interviuri la Ana

Author(s): Mihaela Râbu / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: 08/2000

interview with dr. Alexandru Blidaru

Reports / Info / News

Corespondente / ştiri / informatii

Author(s): Florentina Bocioc / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: 08/2000

Woman's Body - Trophy of Male Dominance

Corpul femeii - Trofeu al dominatiei masculine

Author(s): Sorina Neculaescu / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: 08/2000

Keywords: male domination over woman's body; rape; cultural patriarchal mechanism; victim; trophy;

Women are always either raped or possible victims of a rape. The society we are living in is grounded on a 'rape culture' that states and maintains male domination over woman's body. Physical and symbolical violence against women constitutes a cultural mechanism that enforces the patriarchal power relations between men and women. Women go through a 'rape socialization process' in everyday life: they have to face what might be called 'mini-rapes' - for example, the pinch in the crowded bus, or the stare of a man looking at her bust during a conversation. Moreover, the threatening of rape affects the relationship that women settle with their own body: thus, their body is not anymore a space of individual autonomy, but a 'territory' that needs to be defended against the invasion of masculine supremacy.

Body & Soul. The Feminine Body and Religiosity of Contemporary Women

Trup si suflet. Corpul feminin si religiozitatea femeilor contemporane

Author(s): Iulia Haşdeu / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: 08/2000

Keywords: feminine spirituality; religion; body; soul; purification; flagellation; womens' socialization; fecundity; reproduction;

In various cultural contexts womens' socialization is centered on their body, and particularly on fecundity and reproduction. The concept of the body not as an experience in itself, but as a means represents the illusion of the classical western philosophy. Therefore, it is not necessary to reassess the meaning of the body in defining the individual's identity and to reconsider the bodily experiences of women, along with a feminine identity. In the author's opinion, there is a fusion between body and soul that is specific to women because cultures construct and reinforce this. This problem makes necessary an anthropological approach over the contemporary feminine spirituality, which is represented by the religious praxis and discourses of the everyday life's women. Three main aspects were in the author's attention: the purification, the flagellation and the importance of food. She analysis the discourse and practices of few urban women and argues on the importance of the body within them.

Old Women, Thoughts, Looks, Divagations

Babuste, ganduri, priviri, divagatii

Author(s): Adina Brădeanu / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: 08/2000

Nature. Body @ Spirit

Natura. Corp @ spirit

Author(s): Brânduşa Palade / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: 08/2000

How to Beat Your Wife Without Letting Marks?

Cum sa-ti bati nevasta fara sa lasi urme?

Author(s): Magdalena Misleanu / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: 08/2000

Keywords: beat; women; Romania; abuse; media;

Romania. A place where young women get married, have children and end up being abused by their husbands, fathers of their children. A place where magazines teach men how to beat their female partners and get away with it. Is that ethically correct? What does the media and the public opinion think about it? Whatever the answers, the fact is that Romanian women continue to ignore the dangers threatening them into their own homes.

Redeeming Beauty

Frumusetea izbavitoare

Author(s): Reinhild Traitler-Espiritu / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: 08/2000

Keywords: beauty; theology; women; ordeal;

Why beauty as a subject for theological reflection? Precisely because there is so much destruction, so much wanton disregard of life and creation and because there is a deep connection between the destruction of nature, others and self; precisely because beauty has become commodified and constructed to serve the interests of a dominant patriarchal culture; we need to restore a sense of reverence for the fragile order of the intricate web of life. Female beauty has centered around the hair, the breasts, the feet, and the hands for many centuries. Womens' beauty in patriarchal cultures is a complex construct that binds together <physical beauty>, desire for relationship / friendship / sexuality / love, but also cultural acceptance, group belonging and the economic basis of womens' lives in marriage but also in the workplace. This explains why women comply and complied to oftentimes excruciating ordeals in order to enhance their beauty. The essential way of experiencing beauty has to do with seeing, with attentiveness, with the posture of beholding. Redeeming beauty means therefore that life has meaning in itself. The promise and praxis of ilfe: Can we redeem the dream of a sharing community that experiences abundant life and that Jesus called <the kingdom of God>?

The feeling of hate in the "Morometii"

Sentimentul urii în "Moromeţii"

Author(s): Marius Dobrin / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: 41/2001

The author of this article brings into attention the feeling of hatred and the occasional violence present within the pages of one of the best novels of Romanian communist period, Marin Preda's Morometii. The character's behavior, their thoughts and deeds as well as the world that surround them seem to be guided by a constant and latent hate found by Marius Dobrin as being inappropriate for the times described by the novelist.

Between Scientism and Nostalgia of Metaphysics

Între scientism şi nostalgia metafizicii

Author(s): Petru Vaida / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: 41/2001

Keywords: Tudor Vianu;

The article is dedicated to the Romanian man of letters Tudor Vianu, whose entire work, as the author of the article points-out, was set under a double aspiration characterized by two formulae present in the great critic texts: the need of preciseness and the need of wholeness.

Political realism and poetic fantasy

Realism politic şi fantezie poetică

Author(s): Gheorghe Dan Ceauşescu / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: 41/2001

Keywords: Mihai Eminescu Romania's national poet; Mihai Eminescu as political observer;

The article proves that Mihai Eminescu Romania's national poet, and one of the world's last Romantics was gifted not only with a great talent doubled by a great erudition but was also a keen observer of the political events in his time and a history analyst In his poems, within skillful metaphors and verses he makes fine inquiries to historical events and foresees the political development of the south east area of Europe.

In the beginning there was The Poet

La început a fost poetul

Author(s): Nora Iuga / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: 41/2001

Keywords: Nora Iuga about the poet Nicolae Tone;

The article written by Nora Iuga is an eulogy praise to the poet Nicolae Tone and his recently published volume of poetry "Nicolae magnificul".

"I'll rip your hand off and hit with you in the head with it"

"Îţi rup mâna şi-ţi dau cu ea-n cap"

Author(s): Tatiana Slama-Cazacu / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: 41/2001

Keywords: violence in Romanian society and language;

This article is a thorough radiography of the"V-for violence" phenomenon whose presence is felt more and more in every aspects of society. The Violence in the media, art but mostly in communication is not only signaled but also strongly debunked.

Dream Stories

Povestiri de vise

Author(s): Rodica Zafiu / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: 41/2001

Keywords: Romanian jargon; Romanian language innovations; lexical forms used in casual narration of dreams in Romanian;

Rodica Zafiu examines the lexical forms used in casual narration of dreams. "The dream reporting discourse" is observed also in some contemporary novels.

Commune self-government’s instruments supporting sme’s sector

Instrumenty samorządu gminnego wspierające sektor małych i średnich przedsiębiorstw

Author(s): Anna Jasińska-Biliczak / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 284/2013

Keywords: commune local government; SME; SME’s supporting

The subject of the article is the analysis of instruments supporting SME’s sector being at the disposal of commune which is the main self-government unit. SME’s is the sector supported by regional governance, including commune. The development of the sector depends on its surrounding condition, including simplifications of starting as well as developing of enterprise’s activity. At the same time SME’s existence is related to the commune’s income – direct, such as estate tax or indirect, such as part of income tax. The conclusions for local governance concern its bigger commitments and more intentional application of instruments being under its disposal.