Ethnographic Works 2013, vol 41 issue 2

2013

Publication date: 08.04.2013

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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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Secretary Patrycja Trzeszczyńska

Volume Editor Assistant Agnieszka Marczak

Volume editor Marcin Brocki

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Postmodernizm a ironia w antropologii kultury

Aleksander Robotycki

Ethnographies, Volume 41, Issue 2, 2013, pp. 63 - 73

https://doi.org/10.4467/22999558.PE.13.006.1035

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.

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Etnografia Białorusi w opracowaniach badaczy krakowskich

Aliaksiej Machnacz , Henadzi Siemianczuk

Ethnographies, Volume 41, Issue 2, 2013, pp. 75 - 89

https://doi.org/10.4467/22999558.PE.13.007.1036

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.

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Дожинки и архитектурное наследие: Возможности и испытания для беларусских городов

Stepan Sturejko

Ethnographies, Volume 41, Issue 2, 2013, pp. 91 - 112

https://doi.org/10.4467/22999558.PE.13.008.1037

Belarusian harvest holiday "Dozhinki" is held annually since 1996. 15 regional centers already became its "capitals". The main feature of the preparations for this festival is a large-scale renovation of the city centers. Rebuilding can be compared to the transformation of the Belarusian cities after the Magdeburg Law adaptation in XV-XVI ct. or by post-war reconstruction. Transformations includes changes in the traces of central streets, building of the major sporting infrastructure and of course renovation of architectural heritage (demolition of buildings – nearly 2-3 monuments in every city; renaming streets; alterations to historic neighborhoods and reconstruction of the iconic monuments; revitalization of central streets, etc.). The result of transformation was the serious changing of the cultural landscapes of these cities, disappearing of conventional spaces of memory and artificially implantation of the outside ones. The article highlights the question of how these changes reflect the views of local communities on the semantic filling of the local cultural landscape. How the cultural landscape changes affect the traditions of memory, do they really increase prestige of the cities and the quality of life as it is stated in the official media?

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The art without Art

Filip Wróblewski

Ethnographies, Volume 41, Issue 2, 2013, pp. 113 - 119

https://doi.org/10.4467/22999558.PE.13.009.1038

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.

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Pogrzeb na żywo. O rytuale w mediach

Anna Barbasz-Bielecka

Ethnographies, Volume 41, Issue 2, 2013, pp. 121 - 133

https://doi.org/10.4467/22999558.PE.13.010.1039

The article presents short but multi-faced of events surrounding the funeral of President Lech Kaczyński. Based on this example, the author considers issues concerning the political ritual and the media event. Also, the funeral is described as a performance following a specific scenario. The analysis was based on the material available in the media and the author’s personal observations.

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Słowa kluczowe: irony, researcher’s attitude, announcement, Belarus, Cracow ethnographers, K. Moszyński, J.Obrębski, Dazhynki, Belarus, revitalization, preservation of architectural heritage, urban planning, Clifford Geertz, thick description, art, media, funeral, ritual, political ritual, media, performance, media event

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