Odsłonić nowe pola kultury: projekt etnografii twórczej i otwierającej
Unveiling New Fields of Culture: The Creative and Opening Ethnography Project

Summary/Abstract: The text presents methods of capturing the process of creating cultural contents in local and peripheral communities and displaying it in projects implemented by cultural animators, artists, and anthropologicallyoriented social researchers. The methodology developed for this type of research combines the spheres of anthropology and its ‘dense participation’ with simultaneous creative and artistic activity, bringing out the local cultureforming potential. Examples of projects and realizations combining art and ethnography at different levels – from tools through the way they work to the construction of a theoretical field – are listed and described. The text reviews theatrical and/or performative activities undertaken together with communities, local residents, representatives of professional, ethnic and social groups, which offer an opportunity to observe the practices, values and routines characteristic of these groups. The idea of ethnographic conceptualism in contemporary anthropology, understood as a generator of new ethnographic situations, is also discussed, as well as artistic and ethnographic methods which offer new, unique forms of describing social reality.

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