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Sport is a very effective and striking phenomenon, which helps to create the impression of belonging to a certain community. Football in Scotland not only links supporters but also divides them by maintaining local disputes and aversions. It is especially visible in Glasgow, where two football clubs have been immersed in bitter rivalry since the end of the 19th century. 'Sectarianism' in Scotland...
The authoress makes an anthropological analysis of the ethnographic material based on the interviews on the 'small motherland' of the Lemkos. The ideas about their private motherland are interpreted using the topos of the Paradise Lost. In this text this concept is understood more broadly than literary scholars understand it. The definition of the topos of the Paradise Lost is connected with the search...
The article analyses the problems of sacrum as discussed by a few modern scholars - Walter Burkert, René Girard and Hyam Macoby, who link the reflection on religions (mainly Old Greek, Judaism and Christianity) to the data from anthropological and ethological studies. The text also relates on the discussion of the interrelation between sacrum and profanum as analysed by classical scholars, and promotes...
The article discusses Fijian Hindi, a group little known in Poland. It is the second largest ethnic group of Fiji, which constitutes 43.7% of the country's population. The Indian Diaspora appeared in Fiji as late as 130 years ago as a result of colonization by the British. The text presents the historical aspects of the functioning of the British indenture work and discusses problems related to the...
The article describes a research problem, which relates to the modern ethnological understanding of the concept of 'area', using the Mediterranean Basin as an example. The Basin is one of the more distinct cultural territories, present in the research tradition of ethnology, mainly western ethnology. The contemporary political and economic changes affect the ideas of the European cultural identity,...
A testimony is a special genre of religious literature used in the circles connected with the Evangelical churches (Methodist, Baptist, Pentecostal, etc.) or with some groups active in the Catholic Church. Testimonies can be delivered during religious meetings or they can exist as texts. The article discusses testimonies as texts. The author of the testimony tells about his life. Prior to conversion...
A few dozen years after Marxist-Leninist atheism in the form of 'political religion', Islam has got a new place in the social space, considered to be an element of the 'national heritage'. Completely new phenomena and processes observed in a Muslim community, help make a claim about a new stage of islamization in Kazakhstan. The process of re-islamization assumes different forms, expressed, e.g. by...
In the article the author briefly explains what 'game' and 'play' are and how games were played by the three generations of some families. The discussion is based on the material collected during classes with the students of pedagogy at the University of Opole. He did not impose any specific form of expression upon his students. He has collected 45 accounts and got more or less insightful information...
At the end of December 2002 rumour was spread in Poland that dog and cat meat was available. It was offered mainly in Oriental snack bars. This information triggered a violent response in the society and heated debate in the media, full of emotion and containing xenophobic elements. As a result many customers, once satisfied, gave up on eating in such establishments. What is interesting is that this...
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