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The concept of healthy food and nutrition rules changed in the 19th century under the influence of the developing medical science. Initially, there were recommendations regulating the functions of the body in line with the natural conditions, both internal (the so-called temperament, age) and external, which adjusted the body to changing weather and climate conditions. When diets were prepared, reference...
The article presents the techniques of self promotion used by healers in contemporary Russia, notably a healer Anastasia of Barnaul in Altai Krai. The authoress analyses the cultural context of this phenomenon, and particularly the messages used by healers in creating their image. These include mainly the popular New Age ideas spread by popular culture (related to unconventional medicine, ufology,...
The article is about modern views of rural population on spells ('the evil eye'). It is based on interviews conducted with middle age and the oldest generation of inhabitants of several villages near Tarnów. The authoress tries to find out how the phenomenon of spells functions in the consciousness of the inhabitants of the villages in this region. The article describes their knowledge of spells -...
The article describes leadership concepts developed in political anthropology from its very beginnings until modern times. The author tries to trace the history of anthropological reflection on political leadership and shows how its understanding in different theoretical orientation was changing. These changes are discussed against the background of socio-political transformations taking place in...
The article shows the role that so-called refugee camps or refugee centres play in the development of the identity and culture of refugee groups. In organized refugee camps their inhabitants can be controlled, distribution of aid is facilitated and repatriation programme is easier to carry out. Therefore refugee camps are considered, both by the authorities of refugee receiving countries and UNHCR...
The beginnings of cultural anthropology were characterized by a paternalist approach to the societies under study. The metaphor of the child who needs care, applied to the recipients of developmental projects, has remained its expression until today. For decades anthropologists nurtured the documentary paradigm in which the viewpoint of a Western man dominated; there was no place for dialogue and...
(Title in Polish - 'Czlowiek u wrót nieba - rola Matki Bozej w zbawieniu. Studium oparte na piesniach i dokumentach z wielkopolskich sanktuariów maryjnych'). Texts of religious songs have not been analysed ethnologically yet. Despite a great number of them, in folklore and ethnographic literature they are not treated as documents, which allow to reconstruct the world of ideas about the 'heavenly court'...
Any discussion of the factors determining people's sexual behaviour should take into account the cultural context in which such behaviour is exhibited. When a researcher or therapist disregards this context, his/her inference lacks important input data. Psychologists, who study human beings, are frequently accused of ignoring the cultural context. However, development of such areas as psychology of...
The largest Tibetan diaspora in the world lives in India. This year it is celebrating fifty years of its existence. A large percentage of this community are 'born refugees' - a young generation, who have never seen Tibet and the only reality that they know of is India. What is striking is a very limited impact of the Indian culture on the view and attitudes of young Tibetans. Young Tibetans have an...
In this article the authoress analyses modern politics of representation in the Jewish Autonomous Region in Russia. Having discussed the conditions on which the region was established as a 'socialist, Jewish motherland' and based on ethnographic observations made in autumn 2008, she shows the use of the 'Jewishness' representation to achieve temporary political goals. The local politics of representation...
A sculpture in coal is an example of artistic creation in Upper Silesia. Coal sculptures are made mainly by miners. The themes of the sculptures range from those relating to the everyday life of mining communities to those relating to religion. This article presents the history of a monstrance made of coal, which was meant as a gift for Pope John Paul II and was supposed to be presented to him in...
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