TY - JOUR
TI - Mistyczny wymiar powodzi
AU - Barański, Janusz
TI - Mistyczny wymiar powodzi
AB - 
	The mystical dimension of flood
	

	The subject of the article is Lucien Lévy-Bruhl’s concept of mystical participation, which was used by him to explain “strange” non-European cultural phenomena from the perspective of the European scientific rationality. This approach, modified by Stanley Tambiah, was used in the article to explain a natural disaster, here – floods, which took place in southern Poland in 2010. The empirical material are the discussions on the Internet, which perceive the cause of flooding in the interference of various external forces, which are ascribed the extraordinary characteristics (the government of one of the neighboring countries, the divine punishment, etc.). This mode of thought is similar to the structures of magical thinking present in non-European societies described by Levy-Bruhl. The above leads to the conclusion that the idea of mystical participation is not characteristic only for primitive pre-logic, but is present in the minds and practice of contemporary Westerners.
VL - 2011
IS - Tom 39
PY - 2011
SN - 0083-4327
C1 - 2299-9558
SP - 37
EP - 44
DO - 10.4467/22999558.PE.11.002.0931
UR - https://ejournals.eu/czasopismo/prace-etnograficzne/artykul/mistyczny-wymiar-powodzi
KW - magic.
KW - mystical participation
KW - pre-logic