Volume 41, Issue 1

2013

Publication date: 28.02.2013

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Our journal has been published since 1963. Until now, 37 issues came out. From the beginning the journal presented the achievements of the employees of Chair of Ethnography of the Slavs and current Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology. It also informs about the scientific and organizational activities by publishing materials from the sessions and conferences organized by the Institute. From the 90s the journal is thematically profiled and has been published continuously. Among older issues, it is worth recalling the ones on the history of ethnographic museums in Poland, gift, ethnography among the humanities, the pragmatics of statements in ethnography. Recent issues were devoted to Slavic national symbols, memory, The People‘s Republic of Poland, ethnicity in Central Europe.

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Editorial team

Secretary Patrycja Trzeszczyńska

Voolume Editor Assistant Agnieszka Marczak

Volume Editor Patrycja Trzeszczyńska

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Współczesna plastyka ludowa jako konwencja – uzupełnienia po latach

Czesław Robotycki

Ethnographies, Volume 41, Issue 1, 2013, pp. 1 - 13

https://doi.org/10.4467/22999558.PE.13.001.1030

This article is an attempt to answer the question of how folk art existence in contemporary society. The first part presents the broad context European tradition of the study of art. Conceptual frame of thinking about art has been developed primarily by philosophers and art historians. In the nineteenth century art begins to function in a new context, as a result of the transformation of civilization, social and economic. For this change is highly influenced by surrealist ideological program. It is his case was undermined dichotomy: high art and low art. In the second part the author presents the mutual influences of surrealism and ethnology, which resulted in interest in primitive art, and her new research perspective. The third part of the article is the diagnosis: difficult to define term „folk art” has become a convention. It is a symptome of changing meaning and decay of traditional folk culture.

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Создание и функционирование афганской семьи в Беларуси (начало ХХІ в.)

Stepan Sturejko

Ethnographies, Volume 41, Issue 1, 2013, pp. 15 - 27

https://doi.org/10.4467/22999558.PE.13.002.1031

This article is dedicated to detection of family traditions among the Afghans in modern Belarusian environment. The research is based on results of a field work conducted mainly in Belarus in 2009-2012 (it covered 93 informants). It consisted from a series of structured interviews with Afghans who arrived in Belarus and was able to speak Russian. Afghans who failed to learn the language passed a survey. Also I made a series of interviews with a number of Belarusian citizens who are in close cooperation with Afghans.

Family traditions include a wide range of wedding, maternity and funeral traditions, the idea of choosing a spouse, an organization of family life and raising of children. In accordance to the results of survey 52% of Afghans perform traditional rituals of family cycle (mostly positive answer was given by a woman). Within the Belarusian society traditional family rituals are passed significant simplification in comparison with those described in ethnographic research made in Afghanistan

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Etniczność w Internecie. Analiza treści serwisów internetowych wybranych organizacji łemkowskich

Urszula Sobczyk

Ethnographies, Volume 41, Issue 1, 2013, pp. 29 - 41

https://doi.org/10.4467/22999558.PE.13.003.1032

The Lemkos are an antagonized internally ethnic minority. The beginning of the division dates back to midnineteenth century, when almost simultaneously began to form the Ukrainian national identity and the Lemko separatism. It is also explicitly on the basis of the Lemko organizations created on the wave of democratic changes in Poland. Using of virtual ethnography methodology to analyze the content of websites of three of them: the Lemko Association, the Lemkos Federation and the Association of Ruska Bursa in Gorlice enables to capture significant, not shown explicitly, the differences in outlook, orientation of identity, construction of arguments, embarking strategy, the language used to simultaneous reference to the common universe – the Lemko Land. The Lemko Federation promoting Ukrainian national identity and the Lemko identity is recognized in terms of the regional identity. Two other one associate people with Lemko identity, emphasizing membership to the group of Carpatho-Rusyns. In their e-transmission they show a background of internal conflicts, formulate evaluative judgments and reveal strong emotions.

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Narodziny „mitu smoleńskiego”

Paweł Sendyka

Ethnographies, Volume 41, Issue 1, 2013, pp. 43 - 50

https://doi.org/10.4467/22999558.PE.13.004.1033

After the presidential air plane crash near Smolensk, in Russia, on April 10th 2010, we had all witnessed a transformation of this historical event into a myth. The aim of this article is to document this transformation, by following the different types of narratives after the crash (news articles, blogs, films), especially in its immediate aftermath. The analysis of these sources shows that the “Smolensk myth” has been born, fully formed (with all the ideas and motifs we can see today), almost immediately after the crash.

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Artysta, tłumacz, autorytet? – próby zdefiniowania profesji kuratora

Katarzyna Maniak

Ethnographies, Volume 41, Issue 1, 2013, pp. 51 - 61

https://doi.org/10.4467/22999558.PE.13.005.1034

The curator has traditionally been defined as a custodian, a person having control and taking care of a collection, and often, a researcher and scientist. In the 70s, a new form of curatorial activities was developed - a figure of an independent curator who is responsible for the form and content of artistic events. This article analyses the profiles of an independent curator and her/his relations with artists. The dissertation also tries to define the curator as an interpreter and a person who has the authority and the power of legitimization.

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Słowa kluczowe: folk art, convention, traditional folk culture, Afghans, family traditions, field work, Belarus, the Lemkos, the Internet, virtual ethnography, identity, self-presentation, conflict, myth, Smolensk crash, hero, president, mythologizing, a curator, creator of meanings, an artist, an interpreter, an authority

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