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'PEOPLE HAVE CHANGED...' REMARKS ON THE EXPERIENCE OF POSTSOCIALIST TRANSFORMATION ('Ludzie sie zmienili...' z badan nad doswiadczaniem postsocjalistycznej transformacji)

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Kabzinska I.

Etnografia Polska

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2010

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vol. 54

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issue 1-2

5-22

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In the course of author's research on the experience of political transformation, the citizens of post-soviet Lithuania, Belarus and Ukraine often underlined that: People have changed. Some of them have asked: What has happened to the people? and perceived these changes as a negative phenomenon. Contemporary changes were compared with the interwar decades (the oldest interviewees) or the soviet period. Informants usually pointed the breakup of the family bonds, the rise of the conflicts between humans, omnipresent aggression, boorishness, selfishness, brutality of life, crime and the chase for money. The phenomena such as the overwhelming rivalry, envy, social callousness, the lack of disinterestedness and justice as well as the loneliness were stigmatized by interviewees. Contemporary times were often described as bad, cold, inhuman, deprived of love and sympathy. Quite often people didn't hope for better tomorrow. These critical judgments have been related to the political transformation and capitalism - often described as the wild, rapacious or black. People blamed the mass media for popularization of negative patterns of behavior. Many interviewees explained contemporary changes in the means of secularization, the lack of moral authorities and the upbringing based on religious values. The author underlines that phenomena pointed by her informants are well known in Western Europe. She is curious whether they will increase or is there a more optimistic solution possible.

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MEETING THE 'OTHER' IN THE INTERCULTURAL DIALOGUE

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Kabzinska I.

Etnografia Polska

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2008

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vol. 52

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issue 1-2

21-41

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The word dialogue is becoming very popular nowadays, but it is also being abused. Quite often every talk is described as a dialogue, though the talk to be called a dialogue should fulfill some criteria. Some of the dialogue's features are: the search for the common view of certain matters, the confrontation of attitudes, acquaintance with the argumentation and activities of the participants, also asking questions and giving the answers. The essential is the skill of patient listening, the will to communicate, mutual respect and acceptation. For Ethnologists/Cultural Anthropologists the most important is the intercultural dialogue. It allows the better understanding of how 'Others' perceive the world, helping this way to avoid prejudices, intolerance and looking at the world by the prism of stereotypes. The authoress points out the relationship between intercultural dialogue, the tolerance and acceptation. She focuses on the role played by the dialogue in the evolution of societies and conditions which make it difficult or even impossible. Significant section of the article discusses the interdenominational dialogue.The article describes the features, aims and levels of such dialogue The relation to the other human and the way we perceive ourselves in such relation determine the adoption of certain attitude towards the dialogue. The ability to listen the 'Others', necessary to lead the dialogue is a testimony of the high regard for 'Them'. There is an urgent need to pass from theoretical discussions over the dialogue's nature to social practice. EU Parliament announced 2008 as the European Year of the Intercultural Dialogue. The authoress points out this initiative didn't gain prominence and was not popularized (e.g. by media).It seems like the chance to spread the idea of intercultural dialogue was wasted. Even though the dialogue is considered to be one of the European values, a distinguishing feature of Europe, we experience too little manifestations of it in social practice. The authoress presumes this situation is going to change rapidly as researchers' interests in the various forms of dialogue will soon intensify.

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'MIXED WORLD' AS A CATEGORY OF ETHNOLOGICAL/ANTHROPOLOGICAL DESCRIPTION. AN OUTLINE ('Pomieszany swiat' jako kategoria opisu etnologicznego/antropologicznego. Zarys problemu)

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Kabzinska I.

Etnografia Polska

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2009

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vol. 53

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issue 1-2

21-45

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Researchers of Belorussia point out the existence of the term mixed world in the language of local people. It is quite similar to cultural borderland, but it is also used to descript sudden changes (historical, political and socio-cultural) as well as their consequences. The aim of the authoress is to popularize mentioned term and to show it might be used by anthropologists to describe the examined reality, contemporary as well as past, existing in people's memory. Selected examples from Europe are used to show the possibilities of using the concept of mixed world to describe the multicultural societies, migrations, EU enlargement or - in general - cultural borderlands and their changes. The authoress asks about the factors contributing to the mixed world. She underlines that every researcher using his own examples can present his own image of mixed world. It is a part of reality in which we live or which we reproduce from the past.

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'PEOPLE HAVE CHANGED...' REMARKS ON THE EXPERIENCE OF POSTSOCIALIST TRANSFORMATION ('Ludzie sie zmienili...' z badan nad doswiadczaniem postsocjalistycznej transformacji)

MEETING THE 'OTHER' IN THE INTERCULTURAL DIALOGUE

'MIXED WORLD' AS A CATEGORY OF ETHNOLOGICAL/ANTHROPOLOGICAL DESCRIPTION. AN OUTLINE ('Pomieszany swiat' jako kategoria opisu etnologicznego/antropologicznego. Zarys problemu)