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The book is a digital re-edition of Anton Hangi's book as published in 1907 by publisher »Daniel A. Kajon« in Sarajevo.
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An anthology of translations of several dozen texts on various aspects of memory studies as a modern field of research and anthropological reflection. The texts present the problem of cultural memory in the context of anthropology of the body, things, media, space, as well as different types of social and historical anthropology.
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A collection of articles from the field of political anthropology in the context of African studies, covering history, culture and politics in Africa. The authors present the development of political anthropology from a historical perspective. They look back on the figure of Georges Balandier and analyse his works. The also write about customary law in refugee camps, events connected to the end of the war in Algeria, the modern history of both Sudans and about the “politicalness” of the filmmaker and anthropologist – Jean Rouch.
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“Grembach. An Ethnographic Guide to a Łódź Housing Estate” in Łódź is the first such detailed presentation of an area of Łódź that has not yet been the subject of a dedicated study. The name Grembach refers to the workers' housing estate established towards the end of the 19th century in the then village of Widzew located on the outskirts of Łódź. Life in the Grembach was associated above all with the sewing thread factory built there which offered people work, flats in the factory housing estate and organized their leisure time. In the guidebook, we take the reader on a tour around the estate where workers once built “their” world. Its existing image has been reconstructed on the basis of photographs, archival documents and the memories of several generations of residents. We follow the footprints left behind by Grembach workers which transport us back in time to what was once here. We trace recollections of the past couched in historical accounts to recreate the lives of workers in the interwar period and in the years of the Polish People's Republic (PRL).
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This work consists of 57 chapters in six larger parts; of these six I dedicate three to the history of medicine and doctors in Turkey, to pharmacy and cosmetics, therapeutic baths and hospitals, bungling and folk medicine in all diseases, fever and water cures, epidemics, and finally superstition in the world Medicine; the other three parts deal with love, marriage in Islam, sultanic marriages and weddings, the power of women in the Ottoman Empire, the wedding customs of the peoples in Turkey, the intimate sex life and sexual degeneracy, finally mother and child.
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This work consists of 57 chapters in six larger parts; of these six I dedicate three to the history of medicine and doctors in Turkey, to pharmacy and cosmetics, therapeutic baths and hospitals, bungling and folk medicine in all diseases, fever and water cures, epidemics, and finally superstition in the world Medicine; the other three parts deal with love, marriage in Islam, sultanic marriages and weddings, the power of women in the Ottoman Empire, the wedding customs of the peoples in Turkey, the intimate sex life and sexual degeneracy, finally mother and child.
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The publication proposes a long-term educational strategy preventing social exclusion and “disinheriting” of Polish children-repatriates from Kazakhstan. The author concentrates on school fates of children and teens in the first months of their stay in Polish educational institutions, showing strong influence of culture shock and Russian-speaking on their “rootedness” in Polish education system.
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"Ynzer Łidła – Our Songs. Songs, Lullabies and Counting-out Rhymes from Wilamowice", is the result of titanic work done by Tymoteusz Król, who documented oral traditions of a small ethnic group living in Wilamowice, a town between Oświęcim and Bielsko-Biała. Wilamowianie came from Western Europe in the 13th century and brought their own language and traditions. Unfortunately, due to their distinctness, Wilamowianie were often persecuted, especially in the 20th century. As a result, their culture and language began to die out. Tymoteusz Król, who undertook the task of documenting songs and lullabies, collected directly from the oldest language users, not only saved them from oblivion, but also started the process of revitalizing wymysiöeryś language, which is now used by the growing number of speakers. For some of its speakers the songs contained in this collection were the first opportunity to get to know their indigenous culture.
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The monograph focuses on the relationship between folklorism and the protection of intangible cultural heritage on the example of wedding ritual performances in the Wielkopolska region. Its aim is to identify the function of the performances in the local cultural landscape on the example of the activities of selected performances and the folklore ensembles performing them. The book is set in the paradigm of anthropology of folklore and anthropological folkloristics, and is an attempt at an anthropological answer to the question whether wedding ritual performances, perceived as a phenomenon belonging to the category of folklorism, constitute a form of protection of intangible cultural heritage. The monograph presents the motivations and consequences of undertaking such activities by the members of the folklore groups studied, the ways in which folklore is understood, the reproduction and management of heritage elements, and their use for social, economic and political purposes. The case studies represent: Szamotuły Weddings, Przyrostynia Weddings, and Biskupizne Weddings. Although scholarly studies of individual wedding performances have been produced, the ethnological literature lacks any monograph devoted to a processual and holistic comparative analysis of this phenomenon. The book deals with the following issues: (1) the role of folklorism, as exemplified by wedding rituals in the local and regional cultural landscape; (2) the motivations and experiences of members of the local community related to these practices; (3) the impact of the UNESCO intangible heritage protection policy and system on how traditional folklore and folklorism functions; and (4) the ways in which folklore and folklorism are perceived and the resulting ways in which intangible cultural heritage is protected. The publication outlines the process by which performances have become an important element of local and regional cultural landscapes, and permanently embedded in the lives of inhabitants
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The book is a collection of texts about the city. The city appears in them as a dynamic spatial figure and a multidimensional cultural and social idea. The authors: ethnographers, cultural anthropologists, sociologists, and historians, create an urban mosaic. They present various adjacent, interpenetrating, and sometimes conflicting strategies for getting to know the city and including it in scientific reflection. Sometimes they do it, for instance, on the margins of discussions on the relation between cultural anthropology and history. The city inspiration is a challenge for them, which they try to harness by describing and interpreting changing urban landscapes and local history that builds local heritage, or tracking “urban threads” in various cultural texts. This volume is dedicated to Professor Grażyna Ewa Karpińska – an ethnographer and cultural anthropologist associated with the Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology of the University of Łódź. THE CITY – herein described and interpreted in various ways – is the dominant topic and area of her research, publication, teaching and expert activity. Her scientific achievements include, among others, studies on the culture of industrial workers, as well as ethnographic explorations and anthropological reflection on such categories as urban everyday life or the past in the landscape of cities and towns.
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We are asking how the practice of philology is possible and what are the ways of understanding literary scholarship today. We are moving along two paths. Following first of them, we conceive of literature as a mode of circulating knowledge and certain concepts of the world; the other teaches us that literature transmits also ways of living and reflection upon how we live. This reflection is always mediated by language, hence the purpose of our approach and the practice of –U– is to perform a nuanced study of words to demonstrate meanings which have been forgotten or deliberately passed by in order to help establish a certain vision of life and society. Philology is a formative instrument of the science of living-together. As Werner Hamacher has put it: “Philology fights in a world civil war for language and for the world against the industrial manufacture of language and of the world.”
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The book is the result of cooperation between the Asháninka indigenous society living in native communities (Span. comunidades nativas) along the Tambo River (Dep. Junín) in the Upper Peruvian Amazonia, the Asháninka Association Tspiana Jampi and researchers from the University of Lodz, the Ethnographic Museum in Krakow and the Museo de Historia Natural at the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos in Lima. From 2016 to 2022, we documented the traditional knowledge of the Asháninka people about medicinal and edible plants grown in their home gardens, on agricultural plots and harvested from the wild in the forest. During our stays in the field, we collected over 400 herbarium specimens, which were deposited in the herbarium of the Museo de Historia Natural in Lima, thanks to which we identified nearly 250 botanical species used by the Asháninka. The book is organized by the names of plants in the Asháninka language, accompanied by botanical names, photographs of plants, their short botanical and ecological description and their use in traditional medicine and in the local diet. Moreover, in the last part we introduced all the collaborators (nearly 150 people) with whom we cooperated and whose knowledge was documented in this book.
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This work is a fascinating attempt to probe deep into the socio-cultural ramifications of the visual artefacts of ancient India, which has a rich heritage of iconographic treasures of varying sizes and styles. The art objects selected for analysis are mainly from the Mathura region of the Kushan era and belong to a period between 50–60 and 300 of the Common Era. This period is perceived as that of ‘multicultural environment’ enriched with different streams of tradition. According to the author they are directly related to the themes of abundance and fertility, its perceived cause. The author demonstrates how these distant fragments of visual imagery can yield rich insights of the world view of the communities which produced them. The work critically analyses the representation of ‘spiritual deities’ consisting of Ekanamsha, Hariti, Matrikas, Naigamesha, Shashthi and Skanda who were associated with the function of child protection. Understandably, they were the products of a belief in supernatural powers which could offer psychological protection to women cutting across different socio-economic classes at the times of great psychological stress like pregnancy, childbirth and puerperium. The artefacts are carved in stone. Sometimes they are projected as isolated individuals and at other times as belonging to multi-character panels. Depending on their size, they had different functions: bigger objects could be fixed at some places and smaller ones carried from place to place. Excerpt from the review of Dr. C. Rajendran
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