Full-text resources of CEJSH and other databases are now available in the new Library of Science.
Visit https://bibliotekanauki.pl

Results found: 2

first rewind previous Page / 1 next fast forward last

Search results

help Sort By:

help Limit search:
first rewind previous Page / 1 next fast forward last
1

Antropologia i historia wobec mityzacji przeszłości

100%
Brocki M.
Rocznik Antropologii Historii
|
2012
|
issue 1(2)
51-62
EN
The experiences of People’s Polish Republic are available through their representations. These representations do not constitute data that tell something of themselves, they are not a neutral medium conveying facts, but they are subject to selection, and are related to other facts, thus rather than generating the past then reproducing it within the medium of the texts. Sometimes the nature of so produced past is determined by a small shifts in the usage of metaphors by which we describes some events. Thus it becomes important who makes the selection and who places "facts" in “an appropriate” network of relations, what language is used and what are the selected elements of the past on which the focus is given. The article aims to show the difference in reconstructing the past by anthropologists and scholars representing the discourse of history. In anthropology, an interest in the past is generally dictated by the fact that the present is more understandable by the way it “looks at the past”, for the history the present is the result of the past. In anthropology the common version of the past (usually oral), is subject to the reconstruction and interpretation, while for the history it is usually treated as an alternative version of past. Western historical discourse insists that the history relies on the written, while the oral is a matter of tradition. Fiction (the common version of the past) does not interest most historians, because we understand what is "real and true" differently. For anthropology, the "real" relates to what is real for certain people, for the history the "real" is what historians declare as such. Anthropologists are less interested in "what really happened", but rather in the process of signification of the past. Thus, ethnography of history differs greatly from the history taught in schools, sometimes becoming criticism of such a history. However, both academic history and anthropology are forms of semiosis of the past. But it is important to distinguish which of the representation of the past is more representative of it and to distinguish between the process of semiosis from the mythologization of the past on the grounds of both sciences.
2

Nostalgia za PRL-em. Próba analizy

100%
Brocki M.
Konteksty - Polska Sztuka Ludowa
|
2011
|
vol. 65
|
issue 1(292)
26-33
EN
Nostalgia for the People’s Republic of Poland (PRL) is a phenomenon whose causes, significance and social function have not as yet been satisfactorily interpreted. The author based himself on ethnographic material created as part of field studies in order to try to situate the memory of PRL within the communication order in which it is ”used”. By resorting to elements of the semiotic theory of the Tartu-Moscow school as regards research focused on memory, and the reflections of Erving Goffman on the permanence of the order of daily and ritualised forms of communication, the author formulated a thesis claiming that recollections of PRL serve as a point of departure for own interpretations of the present-day situation. While analysing field material he concluded that after the turnabout of 1989, changing institutions of daily life were still interpreted within codes once binding in People’s Poland. Since there exists a divergence between those codes and a new way of acting, it became an incomprehensible “foreign tongue” that produced animosity towards the new and sentiment for the already familiar (nostalgia). Nostalgia should thus be deciphered as a sui generis interpretation of the present day from a communication perspective – nostalgia interprets changes within the range of communication forms and, primarily, changes of the number of interpersonal connections (building a feeling of a bond) and the possibility of realising ritualised forms of daily interactions.
first rewind previous Page / 1 next fast forward last
JavaScript is turned off in your web browser. Turn it on to take full advantage of this site, then refresh the page.