„Taki pejzaż”. Napisy na figurach przydrożnych w krajobrazie wiejskim

• Authors: Antoni Sułek

Title variants

EN

“Such a Landscape”. Inscriptions on Wayside Crosses in the Countryside

Abstracts

EN

The article addresses a source rarely used by social researchers, namely the inscriptions on wayside crosses in rural settings. Crosses erected “in memory of” preserve social memory and forestall the natural process of oblivion. These inscriptions are the products of social reflection, and express collective representations and the collective opinion of the community. One can deduce the values most important to the community, and those most endangered, from the wording imprinted on the crosses. The preserved inscriptions are all the more valuable as a state of collective consciousness in rural communities has yet to be constructed on the basis of individual testimonies in the form of letters or diaries. The inscriptions on crosses in an area of the Lublin voivodeship, enriched with information gathered regarding the local context, constitute the article’s empirical basis.

Keywords

EN

wayside crosses; social memory; collective representations; collective values

PL

krzyże przydrożne; pamięć społeczna; reprezentacje kolektywne; wartości zbiorowe

• Publisher: Instytut Studiów Politycznych PAN
• Journal: Kultura i Społeczeństwo
• Year: 2023
• Volume: 67
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 145-162

Dates

published

2023

Contributors

author

Antoni Sułek

• Uniwersytet Warszawski

• https://orcid.org/0000000327585240

Identifiers

DOI

10.35757/KiS.2023.67.1.7

Biblioteka Nauki

14438249