Zdegradowana tradycja wielopolskich cechów
The Degraded Tradition of Wielopole Guilds

Summary/Abstract: The article is about about artisan guilds active in Wielopole Skrzyńskie (officially to 2006) as an example of tradition to a considerable extent ousted from the social memory of the inhabitants. The authors present the information they managed to collect as well as the process of reaching sources, with a special role played by materiality – both the one, which the ethnographers encountered directly and the one, which left its imprint on the memory of their interlocutors. Finally, the authors attempted to determine the causes of the decline of the guild tradition and to explain the reasons why it was not recognised by the residents of Wielopole as one the local cultural highlights worthy of commemoration, such as: the so-called Turki and Meus rituals, the drum of King Sobieski or Tadeusz Kantor. In doing so, they also indicated the important role performed by this oblivion in the identity of those who remember.

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