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Na wolności i o wolności, trochę antropologicznie. Reminiscencje
On Freedom in the Land of Free – Through the Eyes of an Anthropologist's: Reminiscences

Author(s): Michal Buchowski
Subject(s): Politics, Sociology
Published by: Stowarzyszenie Czasu Kultury
Keywords: anthropology; freedom; democracy; xenophobia; populism;

Summary/Abstract: This article discusses three interconnected threads related to the notion of ‘freedom.’ The first focuses on the personal experiences of the author who left for the United States in 1990, when the country was considered an ideal of freedom. The second investigates the cultural conditioning of how freedom is understood in Poland and the USA, and the cognitive hypothesis indicating a universal way of experiencing freedom. The third talks about the condition of freedom in the contemporary “free” world, where border walls are multiplying, and the social attitudes of Americans and Poles have been colored by a siege mentality and xenophobic populism.

  • Issue Year: XV/2019
  • Issue No: 03/EN
  • Page Range: 54-60
  • Page Count: 7
  • Language: English
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