Recenzja książki Kamili Baranieckiej-Olszewskiej, Ukrzyżowani. Współczesne misteria męki Pańskiej w Polsce (Toruń 2013)

• Authors: Kencki Patryk

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Review of Kamila Baraniecka-Olszewska's book Ukrzyżowani. Współczesne misteria męki Pańskiej w Polsce (Toruń 2013)

Abstracts

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Kamila Baraniecka-Olszewska has written her book from the perspective of an ethnologist and anthropologist, and yet the work may be of great interest to theatre scholars as well. Ukrzyżowani (‘The Crucified’) is a monograph of Polish contemporary passion mysteries. It consists of four chapters; two of those introduce the reader to the issues concerning the study of passion mysteries and the category of performance in the study of religious culture. The other two analyse two dimensions of the mystery distinguished by the author, i.e., “participa-tum” (what is participated in) and “participans” (who participates). One shortcoming of the monograph is that the historical outline it contains is rather feeble (and some of the theses advanced there are disputable). Its strong point, on the other hand, is an excellent presentation of contemporary passion spectacles, understood as religious performances. The typology proposed by the author is interesting: parish passion mysteries, monastic passion mysteries, and municipal passion mysteries (perhaps including additionally: school passion mysteries, and theatre passion mysteries). Application of tools originating from performance studies has turned out to be very fruitful in relation to both the spectacle analysis and to the categories of experience. The au-thor utilised the conceptual instruments developed by Edward L. Schieffelin in an interesting way and harmonised research on the “participans” and “participatum” in an appealing fashion. Another merit of the monograph, obviously derived from ethnographic practice, is how it incorporates quotes from the participants. Such testimonies, due to their verbal authenticity, make the narrative much livelier. Additionally, the quotes introduce an innumerable number of perspectives (since each participant has a separate point of view). The author has contributed substantially to our knowledge of the passion mystery, ad-vanced the methodology and proved how interesting research bordering on ethnology and theatre studies can be.

Keywords

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theatre studies; ritual; performance

• Publisher: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Sztuki PAN
• Journal: Pamiętnik Teatralny
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 64
• Issue: 1(253)
• Pages: 161-167

Contributors

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Kencki Patryk

• Instytut Sztuki Polskiej Akademii Nauk

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