TY - JOUR
TI - Cultural and social meaning of the forest. Research with using tools of the space anthropology
AU - Konczal, Agata Agnieszka
TI - Cultural and social meaning of the forest. Research with using tools of the space anthropology
AB - 
	The paper is a report from the author’s research which was focused on a cultural and social meaning of the forest. Its aim is to show how to connect a topic of the forest with tools of the space anthropology. The main part of the text is an indroduction to the ethnographic region of the Tuchola Forest (Bory Tucholskie) and its deep associations with the forest space. On this example the author presents that the forest can be analyze as a starting point from which we can understand a local society; all the time it surrounds locals and it has an influence on many aspects of their life, e.g. economy, history, beliefs, worldview, setting boundaries. Also the foresters and a new phenomenon of saint Hubert cult are mentioned.
VL - 2013
IS - Volume 41, Issue 3
PY - 2013
SN - 0083-4327
C1 - 2299-9558
SP - 189
EP - 201
DO - 10.4467/22999558.PE.13.016.1357
UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/prace-etnograficzne/article/cultural-and-social-meaning-of-the-forest-research-with-using-tools-of-the-space-anthropology
KW - forest
KW - Tuchola Forest (Bory Tucholskie)
KW - space anrophology
KW - human-nature relations
KW - boundaries
KW - Saint Hubert's cult