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Pontifex Maximus. Mit i poezja w Commedii Dantego

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Klemczak S.
Studia Religiologica
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2010
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vol. 43
135-156
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This article is devoted to ways of exploring the mythical strains in Dante's Divine Comedy. Previous research has managed to extrapolate the classical myths and their medieval variants from Dante's work. However, the theory of myth developed by Hans Blumenberg opens a broader perspective for interpretation, revealing not only the myths' anthropological and historical background, but also demonstrating the way they function within a literary work. The 'world image' presented in the Divine Comedy can be explored in three stages of interpretation. At the most basic level, the article refers to the 'catalogue' of classical and Christian myths contained in Dante's poem. Further analysis of mythical subject-matter allows us to distinguish periodical variants of myths from Antiquity to our time. Finally, 'the working of the myth' is considered at the most general level, with the help of 'absolute metaphors', epitomizing the key images dominating the worldview at every historical period. Being devoted to the central myth of Christianity, Dante believed to have connected 'earth and heaven' with the bridge of his art. The new approach to the subject of myth in Dante's poem, using anthropologically-based concepts, allows us to better understand the construction and functions of Dante's poetic 'journey' in European culture.
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Familiarization with the Polish Diaspora. Selected Legends of the Mediaeval Jews

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Gasiorowski S.
Scripta Judaica Cracoviensia
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2010
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vol. 8
49-59
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There is no need to prove the significant role played by legends, myths and stereotypes in the history of the world. Also in the Polish lands, we can find many stories connected with the history of the Jews. There is still no comprehensive study on legends concerning Jews in mediaeval Poland, but we already have the book by Haya Bar-Itzhak, a professor of Comparative Hebrew Literature at the Haifa University. An exception here may be the well-known legend about the love affair between King Kazimierz Wielki (Casimir the Great) and the Jewish girl Esther, which has been widely described in many works. Of special importance is the book written by the eminent literary historian and linguist, Chone Shmeruk, entitled 'Legenda o Esterce w literaturze jidysz i polskiej' (The Legend of Esther in Yiddish and Polish Literature).
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LONELY SCEPTIC. BULGARIAN CULTURE IN THE TRAP OF ITS NEO-MANICHAEAN TRADITION

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Szwat-Gylybow G.
Sprawy Narodowościowe
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2009
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issue 34
27-40
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The article attempts to synthesize how the Bulgarian national medieval heresy is adapted to the needs of the Bulgarian national discourse. Advocates of the Enlightenment utopia of progress made it one of the foundation myths of Bulgarian national ideology, seeing Bogomils as precursors to progressive movements across Europe. Over two centuries, the semantic flexibility of Bogomilism led to multiple ideological appropriations from such diverse or contradictory schools of thought as Marxism, freemasonry, occultism or Theosophic spiritualism. In relying on the Bogomil heritage, all those schools were invisibly tied together by the idea of progress, an idea which they shared (even if they all interpreted it in different ways). At the same time, fascination with Bogomilsm on the Bulgarian ground seems to be a sign of the longings for transcendence, and a proof of an unfinished modernization. Modernization with its attendant phenomenon of secularization remains very much an incomplete project as exemplified by the 'semi-modern man'. Further research will discover the strategies as to how to endow life with a meaning - in such a sense as Horkheimer and Adorno see it, as well as a role of the post-colonial complex in this reality.
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SOME REFLECTIONS ON A FLAG. TOWARDS ANTHROPOLOGY OF NATIONALISM (Refleksje o fladze. W strone antropologii nacjonalizmu)

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Jaskulowski K.
Sprawy Narodowościowe
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2009
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issue 35
139-151
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The article investigates the symbolic and mythical significance of a national flag. Drawing on observations of the uses of the American flag and literature the author analyzes different dimensions of a national flag. He looks at a flag from different angles and shows diverse interpretative tropes. The article shortly analyzes such phenomena as modernity of national flag, the cult of a flag, magic of a flag and symbolic emptiness of a flag. Basically, the author argues that from cognitive point of view a flag may be described as metonymy which provides mental access to abstract concept of a nation.
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K NIEKTORÝM CHARAKTERISTIKÁM ANTICKEJ POLITICKEJ FILOZOFIE

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Buraj I.
Filozofia (Philosophy)
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2008
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vol. 63
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issue 3
270-279
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The contribution is intended to give an analysis of some key ideas of the ancient Greek political philosophy and their close relationships to the myths. The paper focuses on the problems of the past, holism, etatism, close connections between ethics and political thinking, etc. At the same time the author pays attention to the simplifications occurring in the interpretations of the subjects such as the individual and his autonomy and freedom.
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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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VARIATIONS OF MYTHS CONCERNING THE ORIGIN OF FIRE IN EASTERN POLYNESIA

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Bučková M.
Asian and African Studies
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2009
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vol. 18
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issue 2
324-343
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The authoress analysed in this study the most completely recorded variants of the Maui myths concerning the origin of fire in Eastern Polynesia. Those myths show the diversity of form assumed in each island. No two islands have an identical myth about the origin of fire. This diversity is most probably caused by narrative traditions and by individual interpretations made by each tribe. But the figure of Maui which appears in the great majority of noted myths of Eastern Polynesia confirms their common origin.
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WHAT I LEARNED FROM THE YPSILANTI PERRY PRESCHOOL PROJECT: A TEACHER’S REFLECTIONS

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Derman-Sparks L.
Pedagogický časopis (Journal of Pedagogy)
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2016
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vol. 7
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issue 1
93 – 106
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This article, written by one of the teachers in the Ypsilanti Perry Preschool Project (1962-1967), critically examines the prevailing narrative about the preschool project’s relationship to the High/Scope Educational Foundation. It describes what the author and other teachers actually did, the principles that informed their practice, and challenges the prevailing myth that the Perry Preschool used the High/Scope Educational Foundation curriculum. It also discusses what the High/Scope Longitudinal Study did not research about the program, families, and children in the Ypsilanti Perry Preschool and examines possible factors, beyond the curriculum, which affected its positive outcomes. The Perry Preschool Project occurred during the years of the 1960s Civil Rights Movement in the USA, and reflected prevailing ideologies and educational philosophies, some of which were in contention with each other. By bringing the Teachers’ voices to the prevailing discussion, which, to date, is dominated by the Project administrators’ perspective, the article seeks to open up new thinking about the lessons of the Ypsilanti Perry Preschool Project for both early childhood education pedagogy and research.
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