ŚWIAT RZECZY W PAMIĘTNIKACH LUDOWYCH
The world of things in the peasants’ memoirs

Summary/Abstract: The purpose of the article is to seek an answer to the question regarding the manner of presence of things in common manners of thinking of Polish peasants authoring autobiographical documents at the break of XIX and XX centuries. In traditional folk culture things were not abstracted from the practically existential and ritual complexes. During the first half of the XX century the things in folk culture are more and more subjected to the logic of commodity and money exchange, thus gaining an overlocal dimension. In the reports from the nineteen thirties intense processes of liberation of things from their practically existential contexts are noticeable, which often lead to increase in the intensity of cultural disharmony phenomena.

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