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THE SPIRIT OF TIME. CONTEMPORARY RELIGIOSITY AS SEEN BY DIFFERENT GENERATIONS (Duch czasu. Wspólczesna religijnosc postrzegana przez pryzmat pokolen)

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Olechowska I.
Etnografia Polska
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2009
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vol. 53
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issue 1-2
213-231
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This article is a monograph of the contemporary religiosity perceived through the prism of religious practices of various generations of the rural population in Cierpieta in the Kurpie region. The text is written on the basis of material collected by the authoress during the ethnographic fieldwork conducted in this village. The article describes a change of a religious traditions and practices. The authoress discusses the increasing role of priests and Church in the means of adopting new practices and making them popular among parishioners. The influence of globalization on perceiving religiosity and the spread of the phenomenon of so-called popular religiosity is being widely discussed as well.
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THE URBAN IMAGINARY AND THE SPACE OF THE CITY (Wyobrazenie miasta i jego przestrzen)

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Harding D.
Konteksty - Polska Sztuka Ludowa
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2008
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vol. 62
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issue 3-4(282-283)
5-20
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In recent decades new theories and practices of urbanism and city planning have coalesced to form a highly visible domain of transdisciplinary discourses for studying cities as both distinct socio-cultural spaces as well as componential parts of wider networked systems, regional and global. One consequence of this development is an increasing awareness on the part of urban scholars that social processes are informed as much by symbolic and discursive practices as they are grounded in capitalist political economic practices. The Urban Imaginary and the Space of the City examines the ways in which the empirical city and its subjectively perceived image in Western culture endures as a complex and discontinuous site of convergent interests rather than a logically or conceptually clarified idea.
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THE STUDENT'S DORMITORY IN KICKIEGO STREET (Akademik na Kickiego)

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Majchrzak M.
Konteksty - Polska Sztuka Ludowa
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2009
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vol. 63
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issue 1-2(284-285)
195-204
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The purpose of this article is to outline an anthropological portrait of the Warsaw University Students' Dormitory no. 3 in 9/12 Kickiego Street - a place which in the course of its fifty years-long existence has become surrounded with numerous 'urban legends' and for many residents of Warsaw has made a permanent and indelible imprint on the map of the town. One of the elements of the Dormitory's real or imaginary exceptionality is its location on the right bank of the Vistula, in the very heart of Grochow, traditionally regarded as a workers' district, whose social label clearly differed from the one ascribed to the future 'elite of the nation', i. e. the students. The prime object of the authoress' interest are the eventual developments along the meeting point of those two communities, and the manner in which the Dormitory in Kickiego Street has for years remained a fragment of the space of the Praga South district. The point of departure for the ensuing analysis are the categories of 'homelessness and liminality in reference to the status of a student - mutually compatible albeit formulated by two different authors. The first part of the article concentrates on the traces of the presence of these categories in different spheres of collective life. The following part tries to indicate certain focal points which concentrated, or still do, the construction of the identity of a place.
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The Schola of the Wegajty Theatre

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Pasnik-Petryczenko M.
Konteksty - Polska Sztuka Ludowa
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2007
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vol. 61
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issue 2(277)
147-188
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The Schola of the Wegajty Theatre, an international company of artists active since 1994, deals with the reconstruction of medieval liturgical drama, research into the tradition of sacral songs and tracing the traditional cultures of assorted regions of Poland and Europe. The authoress discusses the prime programme premises, repertoire, history, work and composition of the company.
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THE HOME IN THE INTELLECTUAL LANDSCAPE OF THE TWENTIETH/TWENTY FIRST CENTURY. FROM PHILOSOPHY TOWARDS ACTIVISM (Dom w intelektualnym krajobrazie XX/XXI wieku od filozofii ku aktywizmowi)

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Rewers E.
Konteksty - Polska Sztuka Ludowa
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2010
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vol. 64
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issue 2-3(289-290)
41-45
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This statement is composed of three parts, with the first introducing the conceit of the relational space that appears between traditional opposites, such as: private space - public space. In relational space the home remains a real place, but its location becomes mobile. Between enrootment and mobility there comes into being a thick network of connections, transitory and hybrid forms. In the second part the Aristotelian conception of the 'good life' is interpreted as an element of the realisation of the modern promesse de bonheur, assuming the form of assorted cultures of dwelling. The last part discusses three vectors of relational space in which we may place - in different forms - modern cultures of residence. Their foundations are composed of: 1. The philosophy of enrootment, 2. The philosophy of the language, 3. The philosophy of activity. Each also possesses its negative version, in which the prime categories are re-deciphered, re-interpreted, deconstructed and, finally, rejected.
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THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF HISTORY. SPORT (Antropologia historii. Sport)

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Stomma L.
Konteksty - Polska Sztuka Ludowa
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2008
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vol. 62
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issue 3-4(282-283)
295-300
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The author outlines the history of the Olympic Games, which he compares to war hostilities. While proposing the organisation of cyclical international sport competitions, Baron Pierre de Coubertin referred to the tradition of the Greek games. The author considers sport not as a venture involving cooperation or a great humanitarian idea, but as an invaluable safety valve to alleviate confrontations and nationalism by relegating them to the sidelines and onto a relatively controlled course. Just as the rivalry of creeds inevitably resulted in religious wars, so strife on the playing fields, in one form or another, becomes transferred to the stands.
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MOLDAVIAN VILLAGERS OF LAPUSHNA AND TARTAUL DE SALCIE ABOUT DE-COLLECTIVIZATION

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Paz M.
Etnografia Polska
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2007
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vol. 51
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issue 1-2
149-170
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This article is based on the fieldwork conducted in two villages in Moldavia: Lapushna and Tartaul de Salcie. The first one is inhabited mainly by individual farmers, while the second one is a seat of a large enterprise similar to former kolkhoz. The authoress focuses on peoples' approach towards the process of privatization. In her analysis she uses, after one of her informants, the term 'kolkhoz mentality'. The general theoretical framework on post-socialist and de-collectivization studies is provided as well. Issues of collectivization and especially the choice between individual and collective farming is being widely discussed. The authoress shows positive as well as negative aspects of both forms of work as well as peoples' attitudes.
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THE RHETORIC OF THINGS AND MAKING HOME PROCESS AFTER YALTA'S OCCIDENT SPACES (Retoryka rzeczy a proces zadomowienia w przestrzeniach pojalatanskiego Okcydentu)

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Szydlowska M.
Anthropos?
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2011
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issue 16-17
105-126
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The abstract of essay constitutes reflection about things (in the meaning of objects). Things are elements of our everyday life, they cause a human practice of social actions, economical behavior, psycho-behavioral acts. Things can be important and suggestive elements of subjective and collective identity, also things can build spaces of our memories and construct a perspective for reflection in which man makes wonder about their meanings, creation process, using, consuming, making home for them, giving out, throwing away or making narrative for them. Author shows, the presence of things (objects) in fiction and remembrance prose oriented for the description of southern parts of Eastern Prussia (Warmia and Mazury) which have been incorporated by judgments into the Poland. Ethnic definitions of things are connected with the manufacture technique, ways of using and symbolic meaning. On the border, where met together - different cultural codes, interethnic discourse often became the great dramatic. Relation to identify things in cultural mechanism was described by confrontation with such as dimensions: epistemological, aesthetical, linguistic. As the result, things (objects) of everyday life could be a silence evidence of foreignness existence for arrivals, but also it made adaptation possible. Moreover, sign of difference connected with 'old and new' spaces is a description in literature which set out-of the culture material. Pulled from the various cultural agendas things (cultural goods) are heterogeneous mosaic of borderline - where borderland as translation category - defines battered biography and disturbed identity. As author has convinced, presence of everyday life objects, which are presented in the literary texts may be used to recognize character's identify, but also in alternation way can be oriented to ethnos exceeded.
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THE GUINEA PIG - THE ISAAC OF POSTMODERNITY? (Królik doswiadczalny - Izaak ponowoczesnosci?)

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Dyduch G.
Konteksty - Polska Sztuka Ludowa
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2009
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vol. 63
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issue 4(287)
100-102
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In the background of this personal reflection (the author is a histopathologist) about medical experiments conducted on animals lies professional interest and medical practice. The author demonstrates the numerous ethical and cognitive complications associated with various attitudes towards such experiments. He argues that there are no simple solutions as regards medical research involving animals, and postulates to avoid unambiguous ethical fore-judgements in favour of a careful examination of each individual case.
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TV NARRATIVE IN ANTHROPOLOGICAL STUDIES

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Wozniak A.
Etnografia Polska
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2006
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vol. 50
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issue 1-2
117-132
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Television wields an enormous influence on the socio-cultural space where contemporary people function all their lives. Multitude of information reaching the recipients through that most important medium of nowadays is classified in the framework of particular genres whose content is included in the form of TV narrative. TV narrative is not identical with any other narrative style. Its specificity (determined by audio-visual character, commercialization as well as promoting particular ideologies) lies in the fact that it reaches for known, well-tried narrative schemes. Series are the most popular media products. Storylines of most of them show characters undergoing internal transformations by the simultaneous occurrence of various threads. Division into installments determine such literary devices as flashback into former events, elaborate dialogues or minimalization of suspense. The characters represent stereotypical models, embodying either good or evil. Melodramatic schemes are preferred, those telling about unhappy love. Appealing to the viewers' emotions have strong effect on them. The audience often identifies with the heroes who, though fictitious, become idols. Analysis of television narrative together with the anthropological research of audience may become a source of valuable information about changing contemporary culture.
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FROM THE VIEWPOINT OF A GHANEAN PHOTOGRAPHER (Z punktu widzenia ghanijskiego fotografa)

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Sikora S.
Konteksty - Polska Sztuka Ludowa
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2008
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vol. 62
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issue 2(281)
184-185
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The film 'Future Remembrance. Photography and Image Arts in Ghana' by Tobias Wendl and Nancy du Plessis (1998) proposes an interesting examination of the significance and condition of photography in Ghana at the turn of the 1980s. Its authors considered such issues as the comprehension of realism and truth in photographs as well as the rank of the photographer. Although the statements made by assorted photographers make it possible to include the understanding of the photographic image into such concepts as indistinguishability (H-G. Gadamer), in the author's opinion they may be just as well treated as a special game played with realism, photography and reality.
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THE MYTH OF BON COSMOGONY

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Namgyal N. D.
Rocznik Orientalistyczny
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2010
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vol. 63
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issue 1
162-168
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The myth of Bon cosmogony is often narrated in various religious texts and thus these versions are not necessarily similar. In this paper the author would like to present the myth based on the 'Srid-pa'i mdzod-phug'. The myth of Bon cosmogony does not only concern the description of the nature of the universe, but at the same time it also explains the evolution of sentient beings. The author would like to point out the main concepts of Bon cosmogony, such as elements, existence and sky and how they are related to each other and to Tibetan and Zhang-Zhung beliefs in general.
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HOMELESSNESS - THE DESTROYED HOME, THE UNATTAINABLE HOME (Bezdomnosc dom zniszczony, dom nieosiagalny)

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Waltos J.
Konteksty - Polska Sztuka Ludowa
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2010
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vol. 64
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issue 2-3(289-290)
183-184
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A text accompanying the exhibition 'The Reduced Home. Homelessness. The Home in Contemporary Art' at the Municipal Art Gallery, Czestochowa, 2010).
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On the Performance of Bernardine Pious Songs at the Turn of the Fifteenth Century

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Siciarek M.
Konteksty - Polska Sztuka Ludowa
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2007
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vol. 61
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issue 2(277)
46-56
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Introductory data are to recollect the history of the appearance of the Bernardines in Polish lands - the foundations of the particular monasteries, and the origin of the Bernardine tertiary nuns and secular fraternities. The author went on to examine briefly the Franciscan or Bonaventuran model of Passion devotion, especially the forms, motifs and prayer schemes particularly popular during the Late Middle Ages among the Franciscans. General comments on piety are followed by a Polish-language Franciscan repertoire: catechism songs, chaplets, the hours and para-theatrical forms - Nativity and Easter Passion plays. This repertoire possessed its own performance milieu - the subsequent fragment outlines views concerning the performance of songs by the Bernardine monks and nuns or secular brotherhoods. Next the author discussed four monuments preserved in Bernardine sources - two songs by Wladyslaw of Gielniów: 'Jezusa Judasz przedal' and the chaplet 'Kto chce Pannie Maryi sluzyc', followed by examples preserved in a manuscript of 'Psalterium Beatissimae ac Gloriosissimae Virginis Mariae' from Lwów and, finally, 'Coronula sive Koronka', written by Brother Seweryn from Goblin. The text ends by briefly mentioning the impact exerted by the Council of Trent and the post-Council Catholic reform upon the development of Franciscan folk piety, achieved by, i. e. regulating the contents of prayer books and the status of the tertiary nuns and piety fraternities.
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THE 'LUCIM 111' GROUP (Lucim dom w realizacjach Grupy 111)

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Bogdan C., Witold C., Wieslaw S.
Konteksty - Polska Sztuka Ludowa
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2010
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vol. 64
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issue 2-3(289-290)
159-168
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Since 1977 Bogdan and Witold Chmielewski and Wieslaw Smuzny have been documenting artistic and social campaigns in the village of Lucim. Their unusual undertakings are not merely an attempt at restoring identity and the awareness of a community to the inhabitants of the small village but also at establishing 'here and now' a unique axis mundi - the symbolic home.
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DEMOCRACY ON THE KOLKHOZ RUINS. DISCUSSIONS ABOUT LOCAL GOVERNMENT IN MOLDAVIAN VILLAGE

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Janiszewski J.
Etnografia Polska
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2007
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vol. 51
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issue 1-2
171-192
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This article presents materials collected in two Moldavian villages in 2002-2003. Its main theme is the emergence of civil society and the perception of local government. The author argues that nowadays peoples' attitude toward the local government is basically the same as it was in the USSR. There are however changes in the system of values, which combines the old kolkhoz relations with new social and economic conditions. The author provides the reader with a brief theoretical sketch on the genesis and evolution of the concept of civil society. In order to show similarity between various countries, he compares the situation in Moldavia to that in Poland. This way, with the use of literature, he shows main tendencies in the political culture of Central and Eastern Europe.
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JEWISH TAVERN AS A 'LOCUS DELICTI', OR, AN ATTEMPT AT SPATIAL SITUATION OF RITUAL MURDER (Karczma Zydowska jako 'locus delicti', czyli próba przestrzennego usytuowania zbrodni rytualnej)

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Zyndul J.
Teksty Drugie (Second Texts)
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2008
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issue 4(112)
200-214
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The imaginary crime of ritual murder is committed in an imaginary place, for imaginary purposes and in an imaginary manner. Each consecutive epoch superimposed on it a network of its own representations of the order of the world and the essence of Jewish menace. The imaginary topographic space of ritual murder projected the social space in which Jews functioned. In 18th century, the threat was referred to Jewish tavern or inn and it was therein that the collective imagination tended to situate the place of crime. In most of the alleged cases of ritual murder in the latter half of 18th and the early 19th century, Jewish innkeepers were accused of crimes having taken place in their inns. Those accusations penetrated into literature as well. It was in an inn that the alleged ritual murder is situated in Feliks Bernatowicz's historical novel 'Nalecz'. This image corresponds very well with the one created by 19th-century Polish literature which emphasised the dark side of inn/tavern operations - as the place where peasants were induced to drink and illegal dealings handled.
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ARIANE MNOUCHKINE: THE ORIENTAL STAGE FOR SHAKESPEARE

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Hasiuk M.
Kultura i Społeczeństwo
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2005
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vol. 49
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issue 4
107-128
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Ariane Mnouchkine, in preparing a series of Shakespearan productions at the Théâtre du Soleil in the early 1980's (Richard II, Twelfth Night and Henry IV), used traditional theatrical forms from Japanese Noh, Kabuki and Bunraku; Indian Kathakali and Bharata-natyam, Balinese Topeng and Beijing Opera. The Shakespearan series, an example of transcultural experimentation, represented a breakthrough for the group from Cartoucherie, and was the director's first decisive step towards searching for her own sources. Asian theatrical forms that served above all as inspirations and 'traces of imagination', not just as models to be copied, 'refresh'Shakespeare's works and allow us to take a step back from them, as well as express the universal dimension of his dramaturgy. Mnouchkine used the traditional methods of the Asian theatre also as a means of amplifying Western stage conventions, thus creating the opportunity to pose new questions about the tasks that stand before theatre as an art form.
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EXIT FROM THE SHADOW (Wyjscie z cienia)

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Balus W.
Konteksty - Polska Sztuka Ludowa
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2009
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vol. 63
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issue 3(286)
32-35
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As a rule, it is difficult to capture the traces of a decision made by a young artist about his entry into the 'adult' world of art. 'Veranda' by Wyspianski - his early, 'borderline' work - encourages the reader to delve deeper. The interior of Wyspianski's veranda is secure and tamed but leaving it carries some sort of a threat. Crossing the threshold denotes a step into the unknown. Perhaps this will be the beginning of a march into the realm of light and warmth or of something quite the opposite - a fall into a precipice...
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ON FOLK THEODICY (O teodycei ludowej)

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Jankowski J.
Etnografia Polska
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2009
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vol. 53
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issue 1-2
175-186
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The article focuses on the issue of explanations of everyday misfortunes by members of a local community. Its goal is to show that a final result of such explanations is creation of complex philosophical system strongly dependent on the idea of God. The author describes process, in which his interlocutors 'justify' their misfortunes and sufferings. In that way they construct a local theodicy - a wide system of meanings and explanations that makes all unexpected situations valid in a broader religious context. Results of author's research show that, above all, using paradigm of local theodicy helps his interlocutors defend God from accusations of being unjust. Such attitude serves them to build a kind of epistemological structure in which great and good God can exist simultaneously with violence, suffering and pain which are, in consequence, seen as a part of different order. What is wrong and bad thus, must have some kind of sense even if one cannot understand it himself. Without constructing this local form of theodicy, the interlocutors could not share Christian values and be a part of a community based on these values. Conducted research has shown that some aspects of author's interlocutors' lives, would be very difficult to explain without a concept of local theodicy and if this idea did not exist, their faith would be seriously challenged.
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