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For centuries, traditional means of transport have been tightly connected to traditional peasant culture. The work of a farmer has always represented not only the means of adaptation to the natural environment and the acquisition of essential articles of food and raw materials, but also the realization of one’s cultural identity. Over the centuries, it has acquired its typical features and has become...
The article examines the tradition of the chinking of log cabins with moss in chosen villages of the Carpathian Foothills (SE Poland) in the counties of Krosno, Strzyżów, and Sanok. Moss used to be the main material used for chinking. After being gathered in pastures and forests by children and women, it was dried, sprinkled withwater and packed with the help of the metal part of a plough. For the...
The academic center of ethnological research in Cieszyn has a clearly defined profile, which distinguishes it from other centers of this kind in Poland. Its specificity results primarily from the research interests of the staff, which focus on the issues of cultural and ethnic borderlands and on contemporary socio-cultural transformations, including the role of tradition in the life of postmodern...
This article shows an important sphere of social life, i.e. Physical Culture, regarding its elements: play, games, and sports as intangible global and at the same time regional heritage of every corner of the world. Through this work, the author wants to emphasise the crucial role of traditional games and sports in the globalised world, also showing UNESCO and TAFISA’s huge initiatives and endeavours...
The study aims to describe the most important changes in public nutrition during socialism in Slovakia. It explains the essence of the state Communist ideology’s involvement in people’s eating habits and the reality of socialist food production and distribution in the 1950s, when the acquirement of even basic foodstuffs was often accompanied by food shortage, bad quality, time losses related to food...
Artykuł stanowi próbę określenia granic regionów kulturowych i dróg ekspansji niektórych wytworów z zakresu kultury nautycznej w Autronezji. Autor rozpatruje warunki rozwoju żeglugi na tym obszarze i podkreśla istotną rolę w tym procesie środowiska geograficznego. Zawraca uwagę na znaczenie tratew w migracjach Austronezyjczyków. Wskazuje, że łodzie z urządzeniem statecznicowym można uznać za differentia...
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