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The aim of this article is to define the status and scope of research topics pursued by the sociology of the body as a new research area within the sociology of medicine. The authors describe its relations with the achievement of sociology as such. The sociology of the body continues research trends in sociology, which considered biological elements as significant variables for the explanation of...
This article addresses questions of ethnic and national identity concerning the Buryat minority in Mongolia. This group was formed in the first three decades of the twentieth century as a result of mass Buryat migration from their homeland plagued by revolutions and civil war. Despite repressions and ethnic purges in 1930s, this group managed to survive. Their present population numbers over 40,000...
Islam categorises reality into two clearly separated spheres; lay and sacred. This division determines nearly every sphere of the Muslim's life. Because of the importance of this division, sanctified by religion and custom, borderline places, which both link and separate both worlds, become particularly important. The author discusses the problem of border as one of the most basic issues of the culture...
The Matsigenka Indians live in the basins of the Urubamba and Madre de Dios rivers in Peru. Individualism, which finds expression in their living in small family hamlets scattered all over the forest, is the characteristic feature of their ethos. In the course of the 20th c. the majority of Matsigenka Indians began to live in larger settlements, which in 1974 were officially recognised as 'comunidades...
The Czestochowa Region is an eclectic region with respect to culture. The cult of St. Mary, connected with the shrine on Jasna Góra, affects the cultural specificity of the region. It also affects the customs and tradition. Studies conducted by the authoress in the region of Czestochowa have confirmed the hypothesis about the existence of the 'folk type culture'. One of its manifestations is the custom...
The article is an attempt at re-reading Kazimiera Zawistowicz-Adamska's book entitled 'Spolecznosc wiejska' (Rural community). The first part of the article is a critical review of the main positions adopted for a detailed exegesis of the book. Zawistowicz-Adamska's book is perceived as 1) a vade mecum of the researcher's field attitudes, 2) document-novel, 3) an autobiographic paraliterary text....
The study is based on the data from the parish register of baptisms in the village of Jadowniki Podgórne (Malopolska region), dated from 1784 to 2005, and on the results of a questionnaire, which was answered by contemporary parents. The work concerns the influence of different factors on the frequency with which some names are given to children and the relation between worship of local saints and...
The author tries to answer the question to what extent the 'Japanese smile', which is so often described by Western authors, is an Oriental invention and to what degree it is actually rooted in the traditional Japanese cultural values. A definition was adopted according to which smile is a characteristic and easily recognisable mimic expression, which performs an important communicative function....
The article discusses Vincent Crapanzano's position on the methods of anthropological research. This American anthropologist and literary scholar considers dialogue to be the basic instrument of fieldwork. He formulates a number of interesting observations about research practice. The main focus in the article is on Crapanzano's views on dialogue, which arose out of the polemic with the theories advocated...
The article discusses the relation between globalisation and local contexts. It treats the process of globalisation as relative with respect to the culture of everyday life, evident in the face-to-face relations (housework, workplace, everyday symbolic forms). It also discusses the problem of glocalisation, stemming from the discussion of the work of Józef Chelmowski, a Kasubian folk artist. Glocalisation...
The human body is not only physical. It is associated with many beliefs and ideas, which make it a cultural construct. The cultural image of the body is composed of beliefs about its optimal shape and size, borders of body, internal structure, how it functions, and about the attire, decorations and marks on the body. The image of the body offers us a framework for the right perception (in a given...
The article discusses the prospects of 'cultural populism' (which was popularized within the framework of cultural studies), with special emphasis on John Fiske's ideas. This is a point of view, which helps to notice a creative or even subversive potential of the members of popular and consumer culture. This article discusses the concept of strategies and tactics advanced by Michel de Certeau, which...
Ukrainians came to the region of Warmia and Mazury in 1947 when they were resettled from southeastern Poland. The resettlement and dispersion were the first stage of the policy of assimilation of the Ukrainian population, including linguistic assimilation, which was pursued in the following years. For the contemporary Ukrainians, who live in Warmia and Mazury, language is one of the basic values,...
The problem discussed in the article concerns the manifestations of poverty in the space of a modern town, which is a peculiar stage for the everyday events played on it. The text consists of three parts. The first part is about the multi-functional importance of the town centre for cultural, social and political life of the inhabitants. The second part presents the background and motivations for...
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