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The authoress of this article tries to answer the question: 'What does a consistency of place consist in?' In order to exemplify the problem she has chosen an except from Ryszard Kapuscinski's 'Podróze z Herodotem' (Travels with Herodot), concerning an experience of place in Cairo. The authoress focuses her attention on the concepts of: rootedness, separation, squeeze, closeness, distance, abundance, lack of coherence. She discusses the problem of tackling an otherness of place. She tries to unravel the point of experience which interrupts 'hurried' anthropology of place.
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Author deals with problem of the massification of the Silesian culture in the 19th century. Products of enlightenment and the modern world create a typical set of mental attitudes and preferences. People start to recognize the world as the emancipation of speed ideas. Changing ways of feeling and thinking lead to understand that Europe is an arena for progress and advancement. Satisfaction and pride are mixed with the feeling of nostalgia. The loss of the past individual being correlates with a march of the mass, the average culture, the mass migration. The author recognizes the mass thinking in the Upper Silesian culture in the 19th century. An analysis concerns the problems of the common practices: the collective education system, the common reading, the group insurance and protection system, the mass architecture, the common communication and the mass photography and cinematography. Conclusion is pessimistic, the author claims that the power of the mass in the 19th century has given impetus to the unbolting the door and opening it in the 20th century. After 1945 the presence of the average thinking has opened the door for the socialist ideology, the socialist collective principles and the mass practice of everyday life. Today we live among the ruins of the Silesian culture.
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The author deals with the problem of the place and friendship. The starting point is the advertisement of Japanese porcelain, in which the cup becomes a symbol of lifelong / undying / immortal friendship. Tokyo cup, as a heartwarming gift, leads the author to questions about the community, distance, permanence, transience, time and place. Donated items connect the purchase, friendship, travel, artefact and duration. Ceremonial objects intensify everyday life and open the world - including the orders of nature, social life and metaphysical existence.A cup of Noritake reveals the radical philosophy of friendship - is a gesture of restoring ties in the world in which we severed the bonds of friendship. It is a fragile suggestion to rebuild what interpersonal and to resume our understanding of time and space.
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The Essay 'Home - at the Heights of Locality' institutes a wide aspect concern about issue - localness, the local man, locally comprehended life. However, author wanted to consider on, what local not further to it, what low as subordinated to something global, but as what always exists at the heights of our experiencing and understanding existence. She confirms, that there are some objections about localness issue. Moreover, because of understanding the localness can have dangerous and tight areas. They are connected with ethnic. Anxiety is the basic and so far explaining the human fate, which really is needed the ethnic rule. What is more important, there are many different possibilities and treatments of ethnos and association, where ethnos is connected with localness. Ethnos can be dangerous, because of its claiming the man. Then, he is not corresponding with questions about human being borders, about limits of human being's knowledge or what is for?, what is the truth, for the heart of matter, for fears in the face of the nothingness or for the presence of the God. Ethnos, so far we can called as 'closed communication', dominated by such rules: 'eye by the eye', 'word for the word', 'system for the system'. The author has used the famous work has written by Cioran, to explore this area. As he wrote, the localness is not only smooth, on the contrary - it needs illness to live at the heights of despair, which means 'to be sick'. In illness is possible experience the heights, as depths and the abyss. The localness is a field of the contradiction, but is always descending into deep area. The Cioran's recommendation - to live at the heights of despair- would be also making a vast, life full of effort, without the smooth allure, but simultaneously full of the, absolutely situated lightness. Author's perception is focus on the localness as not to what is closing the world by the skyline and calming through complete naming what is important in look at things, but as just 'high sea'. Localness is truly Nietzsche's sea. It is leading us out of the house, it is ordering us to travel across the world, in width and length distance, there and back, around.
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A paper undertakes a concept of metropolitan locality. The metropolitan locality is defined by specific thinking, characteristic celebration of life, local pride, roots and at the same time by tolerance, openness and hospitality. The author presents Barcelona and Paris as those metropolises where ethnicalisation of urban space can be observed. The locality of metropolis keeps a relation between intimate and public areas, celebrates separate "being" in a city. The metropolitan locality is a social and cultural project. It is the starting point to define the difference. The opening to otherness is only possible from the place one is deeply-rooted.
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The post-factory, construed as the space of a former factory that has been subject to material, functional and experiential transformation, would be such a place that brings to us back a lost sense of gravity. It does so not just by redescribing and redefining the former plant - which may not be serious enough - but by bringing the place back to our experience, by recovering its palpable presence in that it makes us repeat some movements, put our feet on the very ground, touch the machines, fill the space with our activity and inhabit anew the idea that we have just called into being. The post-factory is an already transformed experience that still pervades us and an idea that we wish to relate to in order to make it inhabitable.
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The paper is an attempt to reflect on the tension between the locality and the worldly thinking. The author deals with the problem of anthropology of things. How do we think about the local things? How do we experience the handy things? What is the worldly dimension of things? The author is interested in how the ideas of home and Heimat are related to the art of living. Nowadays our attention should be directed towards the local practices and the local experiences. In these spheres we find the understanding of human being. If we want to retrieve the knowledge about the art of living we should get to the root of the simplicity and the austerity of our experience.
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"The elitist" we have to think differently today. Farther and deeper, reaching beyond the social, not referring the elitist to the social layer. The elitist - that is, the elitist, which requires our care and pleading for what is important and forgotten - would be founded on human discipline. It would be formulated outside of herd thinking, whether it is related to a larger or smaller group, leadership or not. The elitist - necessarily referred to the subject - would consist (1) in cultivating a responsible, undisciplined thought (2) while maintaining discipline in life. The source of elitism is man, not society.
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The Essay makes a reflection about limits in the anthropological way of thinking. The Author has tried to outline and systemize this problem. Thinking about limits of culture limits, behavior limits, thinking of ethnic limits and organize space - was one of the basic pieces of reflection for the anthropologists. As the author has convinced, this is also a key for the humanistic research: borders species, borders language, borders disputes, movement and of dilution borders, understanding borders, but also more synthesis as limits of human or ethics. From the first volume, author makes a questions - As far as today's the border is vital form, which would be able give rise discussion? Whether you can still bring something new to the description borders? At once, author motivates, the presence in narrative cultural borders was obvious. In the case, when we can not notice borders in anthropological science, it could not exist a construct of the picture around the world as separate cultures, moreover - border from each other, located in a certain distance. The World of cultures was therefore seen as delimited structural organizations, which were united a universal logical human structure mind. The Anthropology has worked for the autonomy, which reminds mythological system - where we can find aspects such as cultures hierarchy, distinctness; it has also built different kind of typologies, point maps, tribes and even nations. This reflections constitute very important issue - anthropological picture lied down foreign border, such as: colonial division, indicating the importance empowering the tribal borders, which were held across the political world organization, but also reinforce the anthropological view in borders tract. In fact, it cannot be anthropology blame on creation and strengthening border, because anthropology surely not prepare them, if they were not in the cultural reality. At the heart of the freedom is a continuing need for human, to separate from that of other, to depart from foreign and noted that in this area is necessary to protect what belong to strengthen territorial authority. The Main issue shows, that it is possible wonder, as well as Barth wrote - whether or not limit shall enter in place of their differences and identity or only it produces. May each limit is "into"? but, as the author has assured - imperative of separation is present.
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The source and its relationship with oikology are key issues. The knowledge dispensed by oikology would be simple: it is an imperative of a return to the idea of home. The author deals with the mystical source, the fountain of youth, the source of life or the presence of wells near the house. These experiences are needed to rethink the present-day home and place it in the imperative of returning to the source.
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This paper focuses on our experiences of place. The author tries to analyze the artifacts, which can be admired in The Silesian Museum in Görlitz (Das Schlesisches Museum zu Görlitz). How can we describe the experience of Silesia? How should we think about the mental territory? Is it possible to express the loss? It is possible to present the pain? The author interprets the cultural vision of collection. How import_ant is the key which was salvaged from the house? What kinds of thing is a coat, which is the only luggage of the refugee? Can we rebuilt our old thought about a strong sense of community in the Silesian space? It leads us to realize that our experience can only be situated in a localized space, making us responsible for a local gesture and a tangible movement.
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"Return to oikology" is our imperative that tells us what we are obligated to do with home in times of homelessness, migration, and travelling. The domestic thinking can lead us to extension our thought of home and emplacement, entering the remoteness and openness. The idea of being off the beaten track brings our domestication and dwelling again. Serious thinking about home and locality shows anew the task that becomes our challenge. Oikology uncover a poverty of being attached to the nomadic thoughts. We recognize the house in a place off the beaten track - on the sidelines of the world, on the sidelines of discourses, on the sidelines of the official route of culture, on the sidelines promoted the mobility of people and things, but on the sidelines of propaganda of stability and familiarity. We are already so far removed to see the house again, but close enough not to lose the simplicity of home. Oikology leads us to the disquieting question: are you really convinced of that house so easily let you go into all the world?
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