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The article discusses global cities - the economic, political and financial centres of the modern world. However, the author does not focus on the economic importance of global cities but on their socio-cultural uniqueness. In this perspective cities are perceived as the most advanced evolutionary form of urban organisms, which developed during post-industrial globalisation. The latter made modern...
Globalisation under the conditions of the ethnocultural borderland assumes a special form. The article illustrates the problem using Cieszyn Silesia, i.e. the Polish and Czech borderland as an example. In this territory the problem of identity of individuals and social groups, who live on the border of many cultures, in constant contact with the 'other', is particularly evident. An intensive exchange...
(Polish title: Studia nad literatura ludowa, etnografia, etnologia, antropologia. Kierunki zainteresowan kształtujacej sie w polowie XIX wieku polskiej etnologii/antropologii kulturowej). The aim of the article is to discuss the importance of mid 19th century (1840-1865) for the development of Polish ethnology and cultural anthropology. On the basis of publications and archival materials from that...
Easter Monday calls (przywolywki) is a custom practised in Kujawy, in preparation for the traditional dousing of the girls with water (dyngus). The names of the local young girls for whom the young men have paid a ransom are called out in public and the men say how much water they will pour on the girls. Presently, the custom is practised only in Szymborze, formerly a village and today one of the...
(Polish title: Pamiec autobiograficzna polskich 'ofiar' i 'oprawcow' z okresu komunizmu w kontekscie polityki historycznej partii Prawo i Sprawiedliwosc). The article is based on field research using the multi-sited ethnography method, conducted during the rule of the Law and Justice party, which promoted the policy of historical squaring. The studies comprised two main categories of informants: the...
In the context of the debate about the globalisation processes, the author describes Göran Therborn's theory of globalisation phases and Immanuel Wallerstein's arguments about European universalism as a concept strongly connected with the colonial, post-colonial and neo-liberal discourse of power. The second part of the article contains reflections on the contacts between Japan and the external world,...
The author presents the orientation of the anthropology of the senses, which has been developing in Canada since mid 1980s. She discusses the founding initiative, the role of the critique of modernism, the consequences of the dominance of the sense of sight in Western culture and the theoretical findings to date. She elaborates on the treatment of the senses as the basic filter and creator of knowledge...
The article discusses the situation of Kashubians in Poland against modern globalisation processes. The Kashubian language, identified as one of the basic elements of identity and the foundation of the culture of this group is gradually disappearing, particularly as the everyday means of communication. Reluctance of the young generation to speak the language and the diminishing role of the family...
The article discusses the practice of bride kidnapping in Kyrgyzstan. The article was written on the basis of ethnographic studies conducted in Kyrgyzstan in summer 2005. The author describes this controversial practice and analyses some of its aspects - violence, temporal dimension and collectivity. This practice, common in modern Kyrgyzstan, although many women have a very negative opinion about...
(Polish title: Kurban w Kyz Ana Tekke - wspolczesne przemiany tradycji ofiarniczych w sanktuarium muzułmanskim w połnocno-wschodniej Bulgarii). The article discusses the problems of Islam in modern Bulgaria and focuses on kurban, i.e. a practice of animal sacrifice by the tomb of a Muslim saint, in the so-called tekke. Bulgarian Islam is internally divided - there are the Sunnis and the Shiites, there...
The article discusses the contradictions between the general scientific reflection on globalisation present in social sciences and the attempts of the anthropologist who tries to interpret the phenomenon of globalisation and its social and cultural consequences in a specific local space. Two opposing scientific discourses appear against this background - one is theoretical, rather poorly rooted in...
The author has analysed forms of presence of selected ethnic groups in the Internet. The typology of modern ethnic groups formulated by Thomas Hylland Eriksen has been used. Eriksen has identified four types of ethnic groups: 1. urban ethnic minorities, 2. indigenous peoples, 3. proto-nations and 4. ethnic groups in plural societies. Each of the types of ethnic groups identified by Eriksen is illustrated...
(Polish title: (Antropologia kulturowa/etnologia wobec dwoistosci globalizacji. Globalizacja jako element swiata zobiektywizowanego i globalizm jako ideologia). On the one hand globalisation and its consequences create an objective reality and on the other - a subjective reality, which transforms into ideology, i.e. globalism. The author notices both the separateness and autonomy of globalisation...
(Polish title: Garnek zelazny i garnek gliniany, czyli spoleczenstwo plemienne w zderzeniu ze spoleczenstwem narodowym i globalnym. Przypadek Kamerunu). The article deals with the transformations of the tribal society, its structures and tribal mentality in African post-colonial states, shown from the perspective of Cameroon, where the author conducted field studies for a few years. The author discusses...
(Polish title: Rosjanie z Mongolii Wewnetrznej w cieniu projektowanej i praktykowanej przeszlosci. Pulapki 'rosyjskosci retrospektywnej' na pograniczu rosyjsko-chinskim). The article offers a case study of a Russian borderline community living in Inner Mongolia, China. The key cultural feature of the group is its retrospective orientation to the 'Russian' period of the region's history. Its members'...
The article discusses the incorporation of globally spread socio-political categories by groups from outside the Western cultural circles. The author aims to explain the reasoning behind these ideas and how they are translated into the practice of everyday life. As an illustration of the problem she has chosen the discourse on animal rights and vegetarianism as the 'new Tibetan tradition', since during...
The article analyses Sister Faustina's Diary - Divine Mercy in my Soul, which reveals the exceptional ability of the author to transcend pain and sanctify it. Tuberculosis and the related suffering were for Sister Faustina a sign of being chosen, called to accomplish the mission of salvation. The teleologisation of the illness is an example of her Christian interpretation where intentionality of physical...
Processes of globalisation have their centres and peripheries but they spread systematically without avoiding any area. They also reach the areas of the 'fourth world', i.e. regions inhabited by indigenous peoples pushed by colonial conditions and post-colonial politics to the margin of economic, social and civil life. In these areas, at least from the final decades of the 20th c., a new community...
The article deals with the processes of globalisation and glocalisation, i.e. adaptation of global ideas and emergence of their local forms, with reference to biomedicine in Central Asia, particularly in Kazakhstan. The author analyses the problems of penetration and adaptation of Western medicine in Central Asia from the historical perspective, using written sources. While presenting contemporary...
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