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2004 | 3-4 | 127-140

Article title

PALIMPSESTOWE OBLICZE MIASTA. PRZYKŁAD ŁODZI PRZEMYSŁOWEJ

Content

Title variants

EN
THE PALIMPSEST DEMEANOUR OF A CITY. THE EXAMPLE OF INDUSTRIAL ŁÓDŹ

Languages of publication

PL

Abstracts

EN
The article demonstrates the manner in which by viewing a city as a cultural text one may discover within it, as in the case of a palimpsest, certain concealed and convoluted contents which exist “now” and had been created “in the past”. The author reconstructed the palimpsest demeanour of industrial Łódź by telling the story of a town whose industrial character was determined already prior to the delineation of lots intended for the construction of the first houses, while the course of history and human decisions altered, and frequently destroyed the specificity of the town, cultivated for more than a century. In this fashion the author proved that the town is composed not only of its material elements but that it consists of numerous mutually penetrating strata of cultural signs, both material and “spiritual” (symbols, events, human ideas, dreams and activity), raised by successive generations. Many of those which “once” created industrial Łódź, such as: factories or a joint community of past experiences and memory, continue to function up to this day among assorted strata (visible and invisible) and various milieus. The provision of professional care for the decaying Łódź factories (i.e. the erection within the factory walls of culture centres under the supervision a conservator) would make it feasible not only to reconstruct the industrial reality of the town and to create within the space of the industrial building a new stratum of meanings, but also to reinforce the bonds between the inhabitants with the town and vicinity.

Year

Issue

3-4

Pages

127-140

Physical description

Dates

published
2004

Contributors

  • dr hab., etnolog, antropolog kultury, pracuje w Zakładzie Metodologii i Teorii Kultury Katedry Etnologii Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego. Jej podstawowe zainteresowania związane są z antropologią miasta, prowadzi badania nad miejską przestrzenią i miejską codziennością, a miasto Łódź uczyniła obszarem swych eksploracji i poligonem metodologicznym. Jest autorką książki „Miejsce wyodrębnione ze świata. Przykład łódzkich kamienic czynszowych”, współautorką publikacji o kulturze łódzkich robotników „Pracować żeby żyć, żyć żeby pracować” oraz redaktorem „Łódzkich Studiów Etnograficznych”, wydawnictwa Polskiego Towarzystwa Ludoznawczego.

References

Document Type

Publication order reference

Identifiers

ISSN
0029-8247

YADDA identifier

bwmeta1.element.desklight-7f63c339-fc45-4445-8fd0-f78661c95890
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