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PARADOKSY PONOWOCZESNOŚCI

Author(s): / Language(s): Polish

Jesteśmy świadkami przejścia ponowoczesnego, które sprawia, że kulturę przestaje się utożsamiać ze zbiorowością ludzi żyjących w jej obrębie i dzielących jednakowy system normatywny, jest ona raczej kojarzona z mnogością i różnorodnością ich wyborów. Autorzy niniejszej publikacji ukazują rozmaite paradoksy z tym związane występujące w różnych obszarach świata/życia: religijności, seksualności, przemian męskości i kobiecości, konsumpcjonizmu, korporacjonizmu, jednostkowej tożsamości, kultury masowej i sztuki. Prezentują zarazem swoistą walkę między zjawiskami takimi jak fast-food i slow food, kultura „wysoka” i popularna, heteronorma i wielość norm, a także różne praktyki oporu w ramach tych starć. Ostatecznie jednak zostawiają Czytelnika z nadzieją, że warto postrzegać przejście ponowoczesne nie tyle przez pryzmat kryzysów, jak to się powszechnie czyni, ile widzieć w nim proces – by tak rzec – dezintegracji pozytywnej w makroskali.

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Od Czeczenii do Somalilandu. Idea ochrony uchodźców w kontekście kultury organizacyjnej i prawnej Urzędu Wysokiego Komisarza do spraw Uchodźców

Author(s): Wojciech Trojan / Language(s): Polish

The evolution of the concept of refugee protection within the office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). The aim of the publication is to portray the institutional challenges for humanitarian aid and the motivational crisis of its officials.

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Homes of the Homeless. A Study of Life in Crisis

Author(s): Inga B. Kuźma / Language(s): English

The book presents the image of home as experienced and expressed by the men and women who are affected by the crisis of homelessness and live in specialized institutions. The author presents her own experience in carrying out research in total institutions and, above all, she focuses on describing and interpreting the stories of people from homeless centers who speak about the ups and downs of their lives. The researcher draws her attention on the stereotypically idealised image of home, which shows its real face when it is seen as a social construct, taking into account the gender perspective as well as other cultural and individual contexts. The book is addressed to people who have a social sensibility; to people working with and for the men and women who are affected by the homelessness crisis; who work and/or managed the aid centers and who are also the volunteers in different type of institutions and associations addressed for the people in need; to the students of social and humanistic science.

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Antropolodzy na wojnie. O "brudnej" użyteczności nauk społecznych

Author(s): Michał Kowalski / Language(s): Polish

The study explores the history of cooperation between anthropologists, army and intelligence since the times of James Cook’s expeditions, through the colonial rivalry between European powers, the First and the Second World Wars, the Cold War, until recent military interventions in Iraq and Afghanistan. It analyses and seeks to evaluate the process of defining standards required of anthropologists working in extreme and ethically dubious circumstances. The part devoted to HTS program, which was implemented in Iraq and Afghanistan, shows how data collected by “anthropologists in military uniforms” was used in a technologically advanced way.

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LES TSIGANES. Histoire. – Ethnographie. – Linguistique, - Grammaire. – Dictionnaire.

Author(s): C. J. Popp Serboianu / Language(s): French

In publishing this work, I only wanted to add a stone to the edifice of linguistic knowledge of the Gypsy people, an edifice begun by predecessors, some of which date back several centuries. The linguistic material in this book refers to the "Oursari" and "Ciurari" Gypsies of Wallachia, with the exception of a few words taken from the "Vatrashi" vocabulary. // En publiant le présent travail, je n’ai voulu qu’apporter une pierre à l’édifice de la connaissance linguistique du peuple tsigane, édifice commencé par des prédécesseurs, dont quelques-uns remontent à plusieurs siècles en arrière. Le matériel linguistique de ce livre se réfère aux Tsiganes « Oursari » et « Ciurari » de Valachie, à l’exception de quelques mots tirés du vocabulaire des « Vatrashi ».

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Russische (Ostslavische) Volkskunde

Author(s): Dmitri Konstantinowitsch Selenin / Language(s): German

This is the digitized copy of the book published in 1927 as one volume of the "Grundriss der slavischen Philologie und Kulturgeschichte", edited by Reinhold Trautmann and Max Vasmer in the publishing house "Walter de Gruyter & Co". For Detailed information regarding the content, please download the Table of Content from the "Contents"-Tab here below.

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SLAVISCHE VOLKFORSCHUNGEN. Abhandlungen über Glauben, Gewohnheitrechte, Sitten, Bräuche und die Guslarenlieder der Südslaven

Author(s): Friedrich Salomon Krauss / Language(s): German

published in 1908 by Wilhelm Heims Publisher in Leipzig.

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Bycie w terenie / Being out in the land / Estar en el terreno

Author(s): / Language(s): English,Polish,Spanish

You are warmly invited to think about rootedness through a book on the experience of place and being out in the land. We are heading towards the land led not so much by methodological determinations of the land as a category in ethnological research, but by philosophers’ creed where man is a localised being; moreover, what is human is extracted by means of being in a place which binds the orders of spacetime, of landscape, the orders locating us "here and now,” the domestic and rooting orders, but also those questioning our certainty about location, turning home into ruin. Place introduces into the domestic traces of the indescribable, the inscrutable, the indefinite. Place – materially, socially and spiritually capacious – focuses on the land as an area of the Earth, which unveils in man the sensation of enormity, the feeling of blending in and the will to co-create; but the land also becomes an area of our activity and, at the same time, a stage for nature/culture activity; the land is what is open, unveiled in a place, it cannot be ignored, it is extracted from humans during their response to the land, it exposes humans in their being in the land.

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Wymiary antropologicznego poznawania Afryki. Szkice z badań ostatnich

Author(s): / Language(s): Polish

A collection of essays prepared by contemporary Polish African scholars. The texts explore the identity of modern inhabitants of Africa, cultural patterns, legal culture and the functioning of administrative structures in this area.

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Český technický scénář 1945-1962

Author(s): Jan Černík / Language(s): Czech

The topic of the book are Czech technical screenplays between 1945 and 1962. The nationalization of the Czechoslovak film industry in 1945 affected production in many ways. Ideologically suitable films and economical efficiency of production were common goals. The USSR film industry became a dominant inspiration. For example, literary and technical screenplay was established according to soviet manuals. The transfer of soviet experience encountered with Czechoslovak tradition. It resulted in unsuccessfull attempts in the implementations of the new practice. In three chapters I explore 1) screenwriting manuals, 2) changes of formal structure of TS, 3) the development of approval process. I combine metodological frameworks of production studies and screenwriting studies to explore history of technical screenplays.

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Middlemarsh: The Hopkins River, Kindred Wetlands and Remarkable People

Author(s): Rod Giblett / Language(s): English

“One book leads to another; one book grows out of another; one book flows out of others. Flowing is a fitting figure for a book about a river, creeks, wetlands and water. The present volume grew out of a brief discussion of two paintings of wetlands in mid-western Victoria by the nineteenth-century colonial landscape painter Eugene von Guérard. This discussion was part of a chapter on wetlands in Australian painting and photography (Giblett 2020a). It was included in John Ryan’s and Li Chen’s edited collection Australian Wetland Cultures (Ryan and Chen, eds 2020). I also contributed a chapter to this volume on Aboriginal wetland cultures, their sacral water beings and their refraction in Rainbow Serpent anthropology and Rainbow Spirit theology (Giblett 2020e). I take up and develop this discussion in the present volume in relation to particular Aboriginal peoples and places in mid-western Victoria, their practices of wetland cultures and their stories about and images of them, including the Rainbow Serpent.“

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Güzel Sanatlar Üzerine Araştırmalar

Author(s): / Language(s): Turkish

Fine arts, which are the expression of creativity and imagination, are an expression that arouses beauty and pleasure in people, and acts as a tool for expressing emotions and thoughts in an aesthetic way. Fine arts, which show their existence in different ways, have always attracted attention and played an important role in reflecting the artist's feelings and thoughts freely. Art, which has been a part of life throughout human history; sometimes he reflected his period as it was, sometimes he criticized it, and sometimes he emphasized an idea freely. In this context, art is both personal and a part of society. Art, which activates emotions such as hope, desire, fear, excitement, sadness, happiness, exists wherever people exist. The artist shapes these feelings according to his perception of the environment he lives and observes; He transformed it into works of art such as poetry, painting, music and sculpture. Although these works have different forms and expressions, they have served a social purpose. This book, in which knowledge meets talent and different artistic works come together, consists of sections prepared by artists from various activities in the field of fine arts. It is thought that this study will contribute to the field of fine arts.

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Kars Geleneksel Giysilerinin Günümüz Giysi Tasarımına Katkıları

Author(s): Üyesi Emine Erdoğan / Language(s): Turkish

From its creation until the present day, humans have often not lived within their own borders and have constantly moved. During this change of location, they both carried their culture to where they went and adopted the culture of the places they settled. This situation either destroyed or complicated many traditions. Information on clothing, which is an important part of Kars culture, is included in historical documents piece by piece and independently from each other. It is seen that there is no holistic and comprehensive research on Kars clothing, which is important in terms of ethnic, national and sociocultural aspects. In addition, it is considered a necessity to make artistic publications on the elements of Kars clothing. In the book, the clothing characteristics of the people of Kars, as men and women, are examined; upper body wear, lower body wear and garment are detailed as complements. Afterwards, the clothes were examined and 12 women's capsule collections of size 38 were prepared. This collection is in a daily wearable style and consists of 30 pieces. Technical leaflets of the capsule collection prepared in the study were prepared and produced in the Coral Draw program. The clothes produced were dressed and photographed on the lifeless mannequin and arranged by cleaning the back in Photoshop. With this study, Kars clothes, which were about to disappear, were tried to be brought to light, and modern style women's clothes were produced based on these clothes. Thus, Kars traditional clothing, which is one of our cultural heritages and considered as cultural carrier, has been modernized technically and artistically, and has been made usable for present and future generations.

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21st Century as the Pacific Century. Culture and Security of Oceania States in Great Power Competition

Author(s): / Language(s): English

The publication, which is the result of a conference of the same title, aims to explain to the readers culture, political relations and climate conditions in the region of the South Pacific. The authors point to cause and effect relationships, provide figures and in-depth analyses of political, economic and social forces operating in Southeast Asia and Oceania and the influence countries of the region exert on the whole modern world.

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Wielokulturowość Europy Środkowo-Wschodniej: doświadczenia przeszłości i wyzwania teraźniejszości

Author(s): / Language(s): English,Polish,Ukrainian,Belarusian

The monograph is a fruit of research by representatives of a variety of academic disciplines: historians, cultural and literary studies scholars, and linguists studying Central-Eastern Europe. The polydisciplinary and multinational group of authors – scholars from Poland, Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania – is united by their interest in the cultural identity of the region’s nations. The problem of the cultural history and the present of Central-Eastern Europe is presented in two perspectives: one looks at processes of shaping elements of the identity of Central-Eastern European nations, while the other offers highly-focused synchronic analyses of selected cultural phenomena.

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Faszyzacja antyfaszyzmu

Author(s): Joanna Getka,Jolanta Darczewska / Language(s): Polish

This book, which builds upon our previous volume „Rus’ Abducted? Russia’s War over the Identity of Ukraine”, offers a clear explanation of complex mechanisms of Russia’s war against the West, along with its methods used in both the virtual and physical spaces. The book also lays bare the mechanism of power in Russia, especially her constant eagerness to provoke armed conflicts and wars. This longue durée process requires a continuous renewal and adjustment of stereotypical confrontation scenarios, which results in collisions of meanings, associated as these are with the imperialist symbolic order being bent to fit the moment’s needs.

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Mongolian Ritual Texts in Manuscript Collections in the Czech Republic: Part 1

Author(s): Ondřej Srba / Language(s): English,Mongolian

The present book is a critical edition of Mongolian ritual manuscripts preserved in Czech collections. It offers palaeographic descriptions and transcriptions for all the manuscripts, accompanied by English translations and selected facsimiles. The edition includes the majority of popular ritual text categories written in Classical Mongolian (mostly incense offering rituals) commonly circulating in the extramonastic milieu of premodern Mongolia: texts on fire-worship, White Old Man, Offering of the Fox, Geser Khan rituals, hunting rituals, while several texts related to cults of local deities, protection of livestock, as well as popular religious songs and individual prayers are appearing in the scholarly literature for the first time.

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Читалище и време - институционално съграждане и обществена трансформация

Author(s): Maria Kisikova / Language(s): Bulgarian

This text offers a viewport into the life of a community center, traced over a relatively long time span in view of the history created for our sake by the authors of the institution’s Chronicle. Creating a chronology of events and goings-on is a special kind of task, intricately connected to a keen historical awareness and a sense for the significance of the time and space we’ve lived through and in. Yet, crafting such a text is also essentially guided by administrative rules, because ever since the latter part of the 1920s, with the validation of the Law for National Community Cultural Centers and the modal statute, it was proposed that an institutional chronicle be maintained as part of the administration and documentation of the community center. In the following decades, the reasoning for keeping the Chronicle changed, but the expectation that it be maintained was still there. My approach toward the textual materials assumes the principles of established theory in the field of the social sciences, stemming from the empirical data, and building analytical models and defining schemas on this very basis. The selected research approach has met the criteria of two crucial principles of anthropological studies - specific cultural phenomena must be studied according to their inherent properties, and random comparisons (in both time and space) must be reduced to a minimum. In its final stages, the proposed research clearly reveals its insufficiency, but the latter can be compensated for by future readers and researchers who can offer different viewpoints, interpretative models, and theoretical understandings, thus adding relevancy to what has been presented here.

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Bez střechy nad hlavou. Empirická studie bezdomovectví v Olomouci

Author(s): Tomáš Lebeda,Helena Kubátová,Pavel Šaradín / Language(s): Czech

The book examines the phenomenon of homelessness in Olomouc from several perspectives. The first is the view of the majority Olomouc society on homelessness and its homeless community. It is based on the analysis of data from previously conducted sociological surveys. The second is the view of the academic community of Palacký University on homelessness in Olomouc, which is based on a representative survey within the university. The third and main one is the view from within the homeless community itself. Based on qualitative interviews, the book presents the inner workings of the Olomouc homeless community, seeking to understand its internal social relations and attitudes towards the majority. The aim of the book is to present and understand how the majority thinks about the homeless, how the homeless community actually functions and how it perceives its surroundings. Without such a deeper understanding, a solution to the homeless problem in the city of Olomouc is hardly possible.

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Kruche życia po obu stronach Sanu. Wspomnienia ostatniego pokolenia świadków II wojny światowej i powojnia

Author(s): / Language(s): Polish

The book touches upon issues largely absent from the usual nation-centred historiography. The authors describe life in the Polish-Ukrainian borderland, laying bare the mechanisms that led to the collapse of pre-war social order and scrutinizing the survival strategies used by the local population, one of which was the labile recourse to ethnic identity depending on the situation at hand. The book offers a multifaceted insight into the dynamic of social relations in the period’s countryside, including the situation of women and the attitudes towards the civilian population on the part of partisans from different formations. Much attention is devoted to child witnesses of violence and the specificity of the memory stemming from those experiences. Also discussed is the perception that today’s inhabitants of the region have of their local identity as well as the role played in the processes of remembering and recalling the past by the material surroundings.

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