THE SILESIAN HOME. CANONS OF BEAUTY, SPACES OF CONTACT, THE PASSAGE OF TIME (Dom slaski. Kanony piekna, przestrzenie kontaktu, przemijanie)

• Authors: Lipok-Bierwiaczonek Maria
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The Silesian landscape is often identified with steel mill chimneys, mine shafts and red brick housing estates. All these elements are branded with specific decline - they bring to mind the past, the history of the development of Silesian industry, capitalist industrialisation from the turn of the nineteenth century as well as its socialist counterpart from the time of the six-year plan and the subsequent period. The discussed examples of three workers' housing estates (Giszowiec, Nikiszowiec and Murcki) make it possible to understand the phenomenon of moulding socio-cultural communities - strongly integrated, living according to identical models, observing the same rhythm of daily life and celebrating the same cycle of festivities. First and foremost, these were communities associated with a single employer-patron. Contemporary redesigning as a rule obliterates the character of the described houses and estates, as exemplified by the loss of the lauba and, as a consequence, a socially important space of contact. The spirit of the Silesian home is retained more in the people, their stories, family histories, manner of perceiving the world and the cherished system of values.

Keywords

EN

HOME; SILESIA

Discipline

• ANTHROPOLOGY: ANTHROPOLOGY

• Publisher: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Sztuki PAN
• Journal: Konteksty - Polska Sztuka Ludowa
• Year: 2010
• Volume: 64
• Issue: 2-3(289-290)
• Pages: 68-73
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Lipok-Bierwiaczonek Maria

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

11PLAAAA094117