Dividual Africa: Nodal Issues of Tradition and Contemporaneity

• Authors: Anna Kawalec , Aleksandra Lukaszewicz

Title variants

PL

Afryka podzielna. Z zagadnień tradycji i współczesności

Abstracts

PL

Artykuł wstępny składa się z dwóch części. Pierwsza jest wprowadzeniem w złożoność kontekstów kulturowych kontynentu afrykańskiego i ukierunkowaniem na odczytanie owej złożoności jako specyficznej i istotnej struktury rzeczywistości kulturowej świata. Druga część wprowadza czytelnika w zagadnienia podjęte przez zespół projektowy TPAAE, poświęcone tradycji i transformacjom kenijskiego regionu przybrzeżnego.

EN

The editorial consists of two parts. The first part is an introduction to the complexity of the cultural contexts of the African continent, focusing on this complexity as a specific and important structure of the cultural reality of the world. The second part introduces the issues undertaken by the TPAAE project team, devoted to the traditions and transformations of the Kenyan Coastal Region.

Keywords

EN

contextuality; dividuality; transformations; Africa; Kenya

PL

kontekstualność; podzielność; transformacje; Afryka; Kenia

• Publisher: Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II. Towarzystwo Naukowe KUL
• Journal: Roczniki Kulturoznawcze
• Year: 2023
• Volume: 14
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 7-20

Dates

published

2023

Contributors

author

Anna Kawalec

• John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin

• https://orcid.org/0000000213238486

author

Aleksandra Lukaszewicz

• Academy of Art in Szczecin

• https://orcid.org/0000000169619037

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Identifiers

DOI

10.18290/rkult23143.1

Biblioteka Nauki

31233937