Ethnographic Works 2017, vol 47 issue 3

2017

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Globalny katolicyzm w polskiej scenografii – ŚDM 2016 w Krakowie

Anna Niedźwiedź

Ethnographies, Volume 45, Issue 3, 2017, pp. 277 - 297

https://doi.org/10.4467/22999558.PE.17.013.8357

In July 2016 World Youth Day (WYD) – a global mass event organized every two or three years by the Roman Catholic Church and dedicated to young people – brought thousands of pilgrims to the city of Kraków (Poland) for one week. WYD, which was combined with an official visit by Pope Francis to Poland, is analyzed here as a complex religious-social event that mixes a traditional concept of ‘religious pilgrimage’ with a popular, mass-culture festival. Basing on ethnographic fieldwork – conducted before, during and after WYD – I will present various and varying attitudes of Kraków’s inhabitants towards the event. I will look at local voices but also at the ‘local scenography’ through an analysis of how the WYD organizers included symbolic capital of Kraków and its ‘Christian heritage’ within their agenda and shaped the event in religious terms.

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Dziedzictwo jako scena rytualna. Przypadek Starego Miasta w Krakowie

Monika Golonka-Czajkowska

Ethnographies, Volume 45, Issue 3, 2017, pp. 299 - 314

https://doi.org/10.4467/22999558.PE.17.014.8358

In 1978 the Old Town in Kraków was listed as a World Heritage Site by the UNESCO, while during 1994 the Polish government officially pronounced it a “national historic monument”. Nowadays, the space of the Old Town serves not only as one of the major Polish tourist attractions, but also reveals complex symbolic dimensions used by contemporary Poles in their current debates about national identity, political stance, relation to the past etc.

The author analyses the Old Town in Kraków as a palimpsest comprising of signs of the past imprinted in historical architecture, churches and monuments. The past of the city is being re-read and reinterpreted in diverse (both recurring and incidental) political, religious and cultural rituals. The history of the city and its spaces defined as “heritage” are being used by different groups and refer to different political and religious worldviews. The paper focuses on two political events that took place within the Old Town scape in October 2016, namely: the Black Protest (females protesting against tightening of abortion law in Poland) and the White March (pro-life and Roman Catholic Church oriented event). Juxtaposing these two public events reveals contrasting and diverse usage of the potential of the heritage embodied through the Old Town spaces in Kraków.

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Etnografia przestrzeni miejskiej. Znaczenia nadawane sacrum i dziedzictwu ulicy Grodzkiej w Krakowie

Kaja Kajder

Ethnographies, Volume 45, Issue 3, 2017, pp. 315 - 331

https://doi.org/10.4467/22999558.PE.17.015.8359

This paper analyses and interprets field work material collected during ethnographic research on various understandings of heritage and the sacred associated with Grodzka Street in Kraków. The research was designed as part of the preparation for the exhibition Maps of the city: Heritages and the sacred within Kraków’s cityscape. This exhibition was organized by the HERILIGION project team and opened to public in 2017. The author reveals some ethnographic background of the exhibition drawing on anthropological exploration of a particular street. Grodzka Street, located in the heart of the Old Town in Kraków, is part of a UNESCO heritage site − a space loaded with various nationally and locally shaped understandings of heritage. Using selected examples of the street’s sacred sites and tourist attractions, as well as narratives collected among Kraków’s inhabitants, the author presents the city space as a multivocal palimpsest.

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Szopkarstwo krakowskie w procesach kształtowania dziedzictwa miasta

Magdalena Kwiecińska

Ethnographies, Volume 45, Issue 3, 2017, pp. 333 - 350

https://doi.org/10.4467/22999558.PE.17.016.8360

This paper focuses on the custom of making of the Nativity scenes in Kraków. The tradition of making meticulous constructions depicting miniaturized Kraków buildings and architectural details as a scenography for the Nativity scene accompanied by various local and national figures set in the 19th century. Today this Christmas related custom is promoted by the City of Kraków as well as by national institutions as an “authentic” intangible cultural heritage. The paper analyses, how the Nativity scene tradition relates to the heritagisation of the city of Kraków itself. The process is depicted in relation to the two UNESCO Conventions (1972, 2003) and a changing concept concerning the “authenticity” of heritage. Heritagisation is presented here as a process involving practices, objects and the cityscape. The author also discusses the commodification of the Nativity scene tradition in Kraków and analyses attempts to transform this tradition into a national brand.

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Przedmiot-relikwia a postać Jana Pawła II w krakowskim kontekście muzealnym

Bartosz Arkuszewski

Ethnographies, Volume 45, Issue 3, 2017, pp. 351 - 367

https://doi.org/10.4467/22999558.PE.17.017.8361

This article discusses different museum exhibitions and narratives related to John Paul II within Kraków’s cityspace. The cult of this recently canonized Catholic saint (2014) is very popular in Poland, particularly in Kraków, which is called the ‘Pope’s City’. The paper focuses on items-relics – objects that were used or touched by John Paul II – and are nowadays exhibited in various museums in Kraków. These material objects are a means of creating local stories about John Paul II and his sanctity. The author compares two sets of items exhibited in two different museums: The Cardinal Karol Wojtyła Room exhibited in the Saint John Paul II’s Centre and the Pope’s Helicopter exhibited in the Polish Aviation Museum. The analysis reveals diverse strategies and uses of objects-relics related to the museumification and sacralization of the figure of John Paul II.

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Słowa kluczowe: World Youth Day, Roman Catholic Church, anthropology of religion, religious identity, pilgrimage studies, anthropology, heritage, politics, religion, ritual, feminism, nationalism, urban anthropolog, heritage, sacrum, ethnography of street, Kraków, Grodzka Street, the Nativity scene (szopka) tradition in Kraków, intangible heritage, heritagisation, stakeholders, museumification/musealization, museums, John Paul II, Kraków

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