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Pomorcy wczoraj i dziś. Słowiański etnos na wybrzeżach Północy

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Piasecki K.

Roczniki Socjologii Morskiej

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2014

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vol. 23

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The Pomoryans inhabiting the White Sea coasts constitute a very interesting group. Their origin goes back to late Middle Ages when the Slavonic settlers from Great Novgorod and Rostov-Suzdal Rus began to arrive at the shores of the White Sea. There they superimposed themselves on the population speaking Uralic languages, adopting many language and culture elements of other peoples, first of all the so-called Tchud’ Zavolotska. The natural condition forced them to base their economy on fishing, hunting (mostly sea animals) and cattle breeding. They developed ship building and navigation, making long sea journeys already in XVI c, travelling to such places as West Siberia, Novaya Zemla and Spitsbergen. They belonged mostly to Old Faith and very religious, thoug with numerous residual elements of pagan cults.Most of them lost their group self-identity aftre the creation of the USSR. At the beginning of the XXI c the local elite came up with the idea of reconstructing the group identity and turning it into a national one, based on the Pomoryan ethnolect. This brought sharp resistence from the Moscow government, and the question whether the Pomoryans are a nation or not became the political one. The las two censuses showed a clear drop in declaring belonging to the Pomoryan identity

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Rapanuańczycy odwróceni plecami do morza

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Piasecki K.

Roczniki Socjologii Morskiej

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2008

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vol. 18

33-39

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The article entitled Rapanu People Turned Back from the Sea deals with the role of the sea in society of Rapa Nui People.

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'WAS COPERNICUS A WOMAN?' (IN RESPONSE TO A. SOLTYSIAK AND T. KOZLOWSKI) ('Czy Kopernik byla kobieta?' (w odpowiedzi na artykul A. Soltysiaka i T. Kozlowskiego 2009))

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Archeologia Polski

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2009

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vol. 54

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issue 2

290-296

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In polemic with the article of Arkadiusz Soltysiak and Tomasz Kozlowski published in this volume, questioning the reconstruction and identification of the skeletal remains of the Great Astronomer, it is believed that the authors have made their inferences unjustly. As not one of their assumptions can be accepted, their final conclusion cannot but be wrong. The argument presented by the authors is inappropriate. 1. The allegation that Nicolaus Copernicus could not have been buried in this spot because of the unexpected finding of a coffin of canon Gasiorowski in the trench is devoid of elementary logic; 2. The 'dental age' estimated by the authors cannot be accepted as it is based on a photo and applies methods developed for skeletal material, not taking into account the possibility of individual variability departing from the standard; 3. The reconstruction method is an established method of forensic identification. The negative verifications cited by the authors concern awkward attempts at its application, which has got nothing to do with the present case. In rejecting the results of the identification, the authors demonstrate a complete lack of knowledge on the issue; 4. There is no certainty that the individual with skull 13/05 was actually Nicolas Copernicus. What we are saying is that the likelihood that it is he is very high. The article distinctly demonstrates ignorance of the biological principles of Man's intraspecies differentiation and political correctness on the part of the authors, who conceal the weakness of their argument behind an excessively scientific approach.

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The Birth of New Ethnoses? Examples from Northern Europe

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Piasecki K.

Our Europe. Ethnography – Ethnology – Anthropology of Culture

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2014

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issue Vol. 3

7-20

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One of the new phenomena in the contemporary world is the ongoing emancipation of ethnic groups. This is taking place at various levels both local (regional) and national. The paper presents some examples of such phenomena taken from the area of the Uralic languages of northern Europe. Two come from Lappland: the Kvens and the Finns speaking the Meankieli ethnolect. Two are from the Russian Federation: the Izhma Komi (Isvatas’) and the Pomors, The last two come from Estonia: the Setu and the speakers of the south Estonian Voro language. The Pomors, who are generally regarded to be a Slavic group, have been included because of their acknowledging their mixed Slavic-Uralic origin. The ethnogenesis and contemporary situations of each group are in each case very complex and different. These differences are chiefly due to the political and social situations differing in each Scandinavian country and in Estonia, all of them being different from the same in the Russian Federation.

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Pomorcy wczoraj i dziś. Słowiański etnos na wybrzeżach Północy

Rapanuańczycy odwróceni plecami do morza

'WAS COPERNICUS A WOMAN?' (IN RESPONSE TO A. SOLTYSIAK AND T. KOZLOWSKI) ('Czy Kopernik byla kobieta?' (w odpowiedzi na artykul A. Soltysiaka i T. Kozlowskiego 2009))

The Birth of New Ethnoses? Examples from Northern Europe