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Homo Ludens
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2013
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issue 1(5)
173-190
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The article analyzes the types, usage and functions of quotations of various cultural texts (literature, folklore, as well as graphic and visual arts) that can be found in “Magic: the Gathering” Trading Card Game. The borrowings and stylizations frequently applied to flavour the texts of M:tG cards enable their players-readers to interpret the cards as minimalistic and polysemiotic writings. In these writings the titles, graphics and literary quotations, together with the systematic rules of the game, form a postmodern mosaic of in terpretations which has artistic ambitions. Therefore, the implementation of literature into a popular game follows the pattern of the so-called homogenization of high and popular culture, but also promotes among its players a creative model of reading cultural texts.
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This article attempts to examine the relationship between history and anthropology, viewed from the anthropological perspective. It defines the conditions governing the development of historical anthropology in Poland, locating them in their philosophical and methodological background. Consequently, it also shows the way in which every historical examination has its anthropological counterpart. Every historical document is a subject to interpretation, is not “neutral”, the researcher always makes a subjective interpretation. In this area historical anthropology proposed a new language (hermeneutics), criticism and the regard of cultural practice.
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This article examines albums from the Romantic period – scrapbooks containing captions autographs, drawings, and personal memorabilia – both as artefacts, and as polysemic, heterogeneous “texts” of early nineteenth-century Russian and Polish culture. Albums flourished in the age of Romanticism because of their location in the nexus of literature and fine arts, social life and domesticity, high and low culture. Flexible and open-ended, albums facilitated discourse about memory, national identity, and authorship. The history of the album shows it to have originated in ancient Rome, where it was called the album amicorum, and it was introduced into Slavic culture via the German Stammbuch as early as the sixteenth century. After an introductory presentation of the album as a cultural object, the article focuses on the album’s textual structure: form, multifarious content, and the internal languages that govern its arrangement and decoding. Thus the album is a cultural text in two senses: it is a collection that encapsulates philosophical, sociopolitical, and the aesthetic concerns of Romanticism, but it is also a physical verbal/pictorial text that also frequently approximates a literary work, a book, or an art object.
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