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"Book review - Necrophilic academic production and songs of partisans. By Oskar Szwabowski"

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Kisiel W.

Studia z Teorii Wychowania

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2020

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vol. XI(2(31))

343-346

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Dr Oskar Szwabowski's analysis and evaluation: Necrophilic academic production and partisan songs is a text in the field of critical pedagogy. The author, while maintaining an extremely innovative narrative, is brave and at the same time very emotional and personally criticize traditional university thinking. The lack of consistency of the author and the insufficiently developed theoretical background for his considerations is visible in many cases. When reading, one can get the impression that the autoetnography in question is a type of self-therapy, which dr Oskar Szwabowski, tired of and struggling with many problems in his professional life. Amazing and problematic is the author's revealing attitude to learning, "writing in an academic style" and treating other people involved in science as competitors. There are many problems and understatements in the work. The author's greatest limitation is his own attitude, which results in limiting the area of scientific functioning.

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Niewidoma kobieta, niewidoma pisarka. Tożsamości Jadwigi Stańczakowej

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Ładoń M.

Przestrzenie Teorii

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2020

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issue 34

307-323

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The article concerns Jadwiga Stańczakowa, a blind journalist and writer, and friend of Miron Białoszewski. The author analyses Stańczakowa’s writing as an independent literary phenomenon deserving its own interpretation. Drawing on autobiographical and autoethnographic work by Maria Reimann, who is also an author with a disability, the author observes the emancipatory meaning of blindness. The text present three identities of Jadwiga Stańczakowa. First, the author shows her as a woman and asks if her blindness affected her femininity and sexuality. Secondly, the author interprets fragments of texts written by Stańczakowa during depression. Finally, she describes the writer’s identity, the most autonomous, although they all depend on Białoszewski.

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An Adult Education Course on African Novels

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Leyland P.

Teraźniejszość – Człowiek – Edukacja

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2023

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vol. 25

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issue 1(93)

103-116

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This study is about the importance of African authors in literature and the creation of an adult education course on African novels. It begins with my acknowledgement of a historian named David Olusoga and a novelist named Ben Okri. The first, Olusoga, produced a TV programme that gave me confidence that my idea for a course entitled African Novels could be successful. The second, Okri, wrote about how African Literature was the future. I will explain how I picked up their ideas and used them as a rationale for the course. The Workers’ Educational Association, for whom I produced the course, has a long history of student involvement. I have a great interest in both student autonomy and students taking part in their own learning. In my tutor role, I wanted African Novels to begin with a general idea about African authors and move to more specific books as the course proceeded. To this end, I began the course with an overview of the subject and a statement from the African novelist Chinua Achebe – to the effect that when you begin to identify with someone of a different colour and who even eats different food from you, then literature is really performing its wonders. I hoped that the students would carry out this identification. The paper will use auto/biographical methods, as defined in Merrill and West (2009, p. 5), to tell the story of how this course was created during a teaching space when my adult education centre was closed by the pandemic. The course could only be delivered once tutors and students could meet again face to face, and I give an example of this. The paper will be supported by reference to my own extensive research on bibliotherapy and by an account of how I used autoethnography as a research method. Both of these ideas enabled the course to develop and grow through reading, research, practice and reflection, as I will show.

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Socio-educational aspects in the probation officer's work

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Kostrzewska D.

International Journal of Pedagogy, Innovation and New Technologies

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2019

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vol. 6(1)

115-121

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The article presents specific aspects of probation officer's work against the background of social problems he encounters. The research on which the article is based was conducted during three-year service in one of probation officer's office in Warsaw. For the sake of the research, the autoethnographic method, characteristic for qualitative and field tests, was used. The author of the text raises the topics of social problems by the example of families under her supervision, where the wards struggle with violence, negligence, difficulties around the divorce, in the background of which conflicts, stimulants or addictions are clearly visible. The aim of the publication is to present the specifics of the work of a probation officer, which is often mistakenly associated with the stigmatization of dysfunctional environments, as well as showing still valid and often marginalized social problems, which despite the increasing living standard of society and the quality of life of Varsovians, are a daily routine for probationers.

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A pomidory są te, co zawsze. Refleksje z baskijskiego terenu

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Mirgos K.

Etnografia. Praktyki, Teorie, Doświadczenia

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2021

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issue 7

111-126

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This article focuses on personal experience of fieldwork in the Basque Country. The author reflects on the linguistic and political dimensions of her research, on the relationship between the researcher and research participants, and on the emotional challenges of ethnographic fieldwork, with particular focus on the impact of motherhood on such research. Emphasizing the importance of autoethnography, the author also points out a variety of approaches to the research process and ways of presenting research results.

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A vulnerable disclosure: Dangerous negotiations of race and identity in the classroom

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Hill D. C.

Journal of Pedagogy

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2014

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vol. 5

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issue 2

161-181

EN

This autoethnographic essay shares my experience as a teaching assistant, desiring to be more self aware of how my race informed my pedagogy in the classroom. Set in „Race and Cultural Diversity,“ an advanced undergrad writing course, I examine my commitments to racial and social justice within classroom happenings. Using critical performance pedagogy, this study explores my identity performance to identify and create effective strategies that further dialogue on the often charged and sensitive topic of race. Moreover, this essay reveals what I learned about myself and clarified my teaching/learning philosophy.

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Pamiętnik kibica, który został antropologiem

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Barański J.

Barbarzyńca. Pismo Antropologiczne

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2017

116-129

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In this article the author talks over the world of football fans in Krakow according to his own memories and observations. This autoethnografic material, which can be described as a popular scientific anthropological reportage, has been enrich with an analysis of football fan’s press articles. Also visual issues, e.g. iconosphere, or football fans’ street art has been discussed. To interpret collected material, the author uses such anthropological therms and paradigms as myth, commune of sense of humor, a game of identity, and others. Author intentions is to present complex society, which happened to be excluded in public debate. Article has popular scientific character. It has been written in personal manner.

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Longing in the Past, Belonging in the Future: An Autoethnographic Fiction

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Joshi V., Famarin I.

Jednak Książki. Gdańskie Czasopismo Humanistyczne

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2021

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issue 13

44-54

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In this autoethnographic writing, we explore the concepts of longing and belonging through a collaborative writing process that is fictional at times and autoethnographic at times. We present an experimental and arts-based approach to analyzing and understanding memories, and themes of nostalgia, belongingness, and longing in the present day. Through our autoethnographic fiction (Bochner and Ellis 2016; Ellis 2004) we explore questions such as: what is it like to long and belong, what is it like to long for a future that is embedded in the past, what is it like to futurize/co-futurize memories, and what if the past is the pre-present? As immigrants to Toronto, coming from nations that were once colonized, and still remain in the peripheries of colonization, we ponder about our bodies occupying the third space that we are living in, the feelings of nostalgia and belonging in our fiction. We write about our belongingness to our roots and the trajectories of our beings and think what decolonizing the the concept of memories might evoke. Methodologically, we draw from Erin Manning’s (2016) idea of going against method to propose a collaborative autoethnographic fiction writing and collaging practice that implicates our memories and bodies with our surroundings and other bodies, human, beyond human, and material, as instruments of research. We suggest that the decolonization and dehistoricization of memories and our conceptions of longing, belonging, and creating futures embedded in the past can happen by futurizing our notions of memories. We hope that writing a fiction in conversation with one another and in synchronicity of each other’s experiences will allow us to deconstruct and problematize our understanding of memories, the frictions between avant-garde and nostalgia and interspersing the collaging practice will allow us to build our stories and explore belongingness and nostalgia, longing for something indefinite and unwanted memories.

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Polished Floor: Female Identity and Resistance Strategies. Autoethnography

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Kępa E.

Kultura i Edukacja

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2019

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issue 4(126)

162-179

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The article presents the process of constructing female identity with the reference to the traditional model of womanhood. The arguments presented refer to the changes in the division of housework. According to the stereotypical model of a womanhood, the ‘polished floor’ that appears in the title is described as one of the effects of a diligent fulfillment of the obligations assigned to women. The autoethnographic narrative that demonstrates personal experience of the author accompanies the conducted analyses. The article presents an analysis of a popular Facebook fan page ‘Sh* Housewife’, which constitutes an embodiment of the women’s resistance strategy against the housework being treated as a ‘natural’ calling and obligation of a woman. The final conclusions clearly indicate that the social and cultural changes that have led to the equality of women and men have not altered the convictions and models of performing housework.

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Going back to School. An Interpretative Analysis of a Dialogical Interview with Adult Women during the Pandemic

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Luraschi S.

Teraźniejszość – Człowiek – Edukacja

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2021

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vol. 23

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issue 2(90)

69-87

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This paper offers an extensive guide for researchers who wish to pay greaterattention to the reflexivity in their own research. The author provides an example ofself-observation and critical self-reflection of her own involvement in the processof doing research and being part of the moment of co-shaping (new) knowledge.The work focuses on the educational experiences of women placed in the contextof their lifelong experience, women’s learning through shared experience, and therole of cultural context in these processes. A non-standard structure was used,in which analysis of the author’s own experiences is interwoven with analysis ofthe biographies of the women studied, and the researcher’s individual analysisis compared with the group analysis among other women. The aim is to presentan interpretive perspective of feminist ethnography on these experiences andemphasizes the role of informal learning through experiencing relationships ineveryday life, including through art.

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Autoetnografia analityczna

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Anderson L.

Przegląd Socjologii Jakościowej

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2014

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vol. 10

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issue 3

144-167

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Autoetnografia stała się w ostatnim czasie popularną formą badań jakościowych. Aktualny dyskurs autoetnograficzny odsyła jednak niemal wyłącznie do „autoetnografii ewokatywnej”, która opiera się na postmodernistycznym typie wrażliwości i której zwolennicy dystansują się wobec realistycznych i analitycznych tradycji etnograficznych. Dominacja autoetnografii ewokatywnej utrudnia dostrzeżenie zgodności badań autoetnograficznych z bardziej tradycyjnymi praktykami etnograficznymi. Autor proponuje użycie terminu autoetnografia analityczna do opisu badań, w których badacz (1) jest pełnym uczestnikiem badanej grupy bądź środowiska, (2) pojawia się jako członek badanej grupy w publikowanych przez siebie tekstach i (3) angażuje się w rozwijanie teoretycznych wyjaśnień dotyczących szerszych zjawisk społecznych. Po krótkim zarysowaniu historii badań proto-autoetnograficznych prowadzonych przez etnografów realistycznych, autor przedstawia pięć kluczowych cech autoetnografii analitycznej. Tekst zamyka dyskusja nad możliwościami i ograniczeniami tej formy badań jakościowych.

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Autoethnography has recently become a popular form of qualitative research. The current discourse on this genre of research refers almost exclusively to “evocative autoethnography” that draws upon postmodern sensibilities and advocates distance themselves from realist and analytic ethnographic traditions. The dominance of evocative autoethnography has obscured recognition of the compatibility of autoethnographic research with more traditional ethnographic practices. The author proposes the term analytic autoethnography to refer to research in which the researcher is (1) a full member in the research group or setting, (2) visible as such a member in published texts, and (3) committed to developing theoretical understandings of broader social phenomena. After briefly tracing the history of proto-autoethnographic research among realist ethnographers, the author proposes five key features of analytic autoethnography. He concludes with a consideration of the advantages and limitations of this genre of qualitative research.

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Prolínání literatury a etnografie ve Spojených státech amerických

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Ferens D.

Český lid: etnologický časopis (Český lid: Ethnological journal)

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2016

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vol. 103

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issue 3

395-418

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This article argues for the need of a rapprochement between scholars who study ethnographic and literary ways of knowing minority communities that have limited access to self-representation. While in the past literary critics and cultural anthropologists tended to emphasize their distinctive methodologies and conventions of writing about such communities, this article draws on the work of postmodern anthropologists, critical theorists, literary critics, and historians to demarcate the common ground between ethnography and literature. Through the efforts of Clifford Geertz, James Clifford, Mary Louise Pratt, George Marcus, Michael Fisher, and many others, cultural anthropology has, at least to some extent, come to terms with the limitations of participant observation and the textuality of its product. However, a parallel reckoning has not taken place within literary studies. It is the goal of this article to push the process a step further by emphasizing the mutual indebtedness of literary and ethnographic writing.

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Liminal Fragility of Rave – an Autoethnographic Study Reflecting Insider’s Stay in the Field

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Orszulik E. A.

Národopisná revue (Journal of Ethnology)

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2023

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vol. 33

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issue 1

53 - 67

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The study deals with the phenomenon of rave culture in the Czech Republic, to which only little social attention is currently paid. The article in particular reflects an insider’s stay in the field, while applying prevailing autoethnographic method. Attention is paid to questions exploring raves from the perspective of ritualism, which is conceptually framed in the theory of liminality, as discussed by Victor Turner. Emphasis is also put on the situation of the rave, which for many participants provides space for spiritual and transcendental experiences through which one can authentically discover his/her own identity and find his/her place in the world. The basic attribute, shaping a true rave, is to construct a safe-space for all participants, so that a space with an absolute respect can emerge. The ravers strictly define themselves against the mainstream club entertainment, a party that lacks implicit rules and the philosophy of rave. A significant feature of the rave is its longevity and excessive behaviour, when, within a collective experience, the ravers repetitively dance all night to produced electronic music.

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Podręcznik z filozofii. Premiera (współ-autoetnografia wykładu)

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Szwabowski O., Wężniejewska P., Szczeciński U.

Internetowy Magazyn Filozoficzny Hybris

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2017

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vol. 36 (1)

EN

In this article we use the co-autoethnography method to analyse the didactic screws. At the same time we are trying to loosen them.

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Anorektyczki jako homo nekroperformerki. Afektywno sprawcze podmiotki

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Krzywonos W.

Didaskalia. Gazeta Teatralna

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2023

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issue 175-176

194-235

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The article is a proposal to look at anorexics as performers and an interpretation of the spectacle they make of their own bodies in the context of homo necroperformance in which the subversive and affective causality of the liminal subject (half-living being) and emaciated bodies becomes important. The article places the problems of the representation of a certain kind of disorder in the field of cultural experience. The article is an excerpt from a master’s thesis written under the supervision of Professor Katarzyna Fazan.

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Antropolog wobec odmienności kulturowej i przyrodniczej. Refleksje Marii Czaplickiej z ekspedycji syberyjskiej

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Banaszkiewicz M.

Studia Etnologiczne i Antropologiczne

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2017

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vol. 17

32-46

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The article examines the narrative of the diary „My Siberian Year” written by one of the first women-anthropologists-Maria Czaplicka. There is a notable absence of discussion about her achievements, despite the fact that her book significantly exceeds the frames of the anthropological narrative of her times. In this paper the perspective refers to the experience of strangeness/otherness as a constitutive part of any fieldwork. This category may be analyzed within different dimensions, which concurrently shed light on the nature of the relationships between people, culture and environment.

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Constructing Social Cohesion in Vietnamese Public Schools: The Methods, and Students’ Forgotten Identities

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Truong T. T., Underwood J.

Kultura i Edukacja

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2020

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issue 4(130)

25-42

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There are four main areas through which education can foster social cohesion, these are: curriculum design; an appropriate classroom climate of dialogue and respect; equal opportunities for all learners; and diverse school programmes that encompass the interests and experiences of the learning community. In this paper, by intersecting these concepts with the lead author’s experiences as a student in Vietnam’s primary and secondary public schools, we explore how social cohesion in constructed within the Vietnamese school system and the impact this has on student identity. Further focus is provided by analysing in-depth three fundamental aspects of the Vietnamese education system. These are: moral education; Vietnam’s national rite of saluting the flag; and didactic, teacher-focused teaching. The latter section of the essay then critically evaluates some shortcomings associated with the teaching of social cohesion in Vietnam. The purpose of this paper is to add meaning to those cultural features of schooling that have been taken for granted by Vietnamese people and also to highlight the need to find a balance between social cohesion and individuality in the Vietnamese educational system, so that in future current flaws can be erased. This paper is a conceptual paper informed by research literature. However, it also embraces an auto-ethnographic approach and in doing so extends the parameters of academic writing within a Vietnamese context.

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Narrative Cities - Literary Edinburgh A Model to Follow

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Erkoçi I.

Academicus. International Scientific Journal

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2023

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vol. 14

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issue 27

42-56

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While Edinburgh is a beautiful and interesting city to visit per se, its literature is an added value which plays a crucial role in marketing the capital city. The importance of literature in generating tourism has been highlighted by a number of studies. The opposite is true as well: tourism can also lead to literature. Edinburgh is probably one of the best examples in this respect. Many people go there to just visit the city but encounter literature in unexpected places. This paper is an autoethnographic account of a literary tour in Edinburgh. It looks at how this city makes use of its literary heritage and why it is a great model to follow. The author contends that while literary tourism is open to any book lover, still, some strategies are needed to promote literature and bring it to the attention of people in new and interesting ways. The success of Edinburgh as a literary city owes a lot to the interactive ways used by its authorities to showcase literature and keep people interested through direct and active engagement. The paper has been structured as a combination of experiential and analytic writing, with the former reflected through an evocative autoethnography and the latter as an analysis of that experience.

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Intersections of Literature and Ethnography in the United States

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Ferens D.

Český lid: etnologický časopis (Český lid: Ethnological journal)

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2016

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vol. 103

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issue 3

371-394

EN

This article argues for the need of a rapprochement between scholars who study ethnographic and literary ways of knowing minority communities that have limited access to self-representation. While in the past literary critics and cultural anthropologists tended to emphasize their distinctive methodologies and conventions of writing about such communities, this article draws on the work of postmodernanthropologists, critical theorists, literary critics, and historians to demarcate the common ground between ethnography and literature. Through the efforts of Clifford Geertz, James Clifford, Mary Louise Pratt, George Marcus, Michael Fisher, and many others, cultural anthropology has, at least to some extent, come to terms with the limitations of participant observation and the textuality of its product. However, a parallel reckoning has not taken place within literary studies. It is the goal of this article to push the process a step further by emphasizing the mutual indebtedness of literary and ethnographic writing.

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Etnografia osobista. Antropolożka i antropolog w terenie

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Buliński T., Posern-Zieliński A.

Etnografia. Praktyki, Teorie, Doświadczenia

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2021

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issue 7

9-20

EN

The article presents the idea of personal ethnography, i.e. the anthropologists’ individual experiences that include practical, existential, and emotional dimensions of ethnographic field research. Such experiences and their details are largely absent in scientific papers, due to their apparent irrelevance for research results. Nevertheless, they form an indispensable part of ethnographic research, influencing its scientific findings. This article not only emphasizes the need to include this aspect of ethnographic research in the methodological reflection, but also points out the differences and similarities between personal ethnography and autoethnography, following the main threads of personal experiences from fieldwork.

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"Book review - Necrophilic academic production and songs of partisans. By Oskar Szwabowski"

Niewidoma kobieta, niewidoma pisarka. Tożsamości Jadwigi Stańczakowej

An Adult Education Course on African Novels

Socio-educational aspects in the probation officer's work

A pomidory są te, co zawsze. Refleksje z baskijskiego terenu

A vulnerable disclosure: Dangerous negotiations of race and identity in the classroom

Pamiętnik kibica, który został antropologiem

Longing in the Past, Belonging in the Future: An Autoethnographic Fiction

Polished Floor: Female Identity and Resistance Strategies. Autoethnography

Going back to School. An Interpretative Analysis of a Dialogical Interview with Adult Women during the Pandemic

Autoetnografia analityczna

Prolínání literatury a etnografie ve Spojených státech amerických

Liminal Fragility of Rave – an Autoethnographic Study Reflecting Insider’s Stay in the Field

Podręcznik z filozofii. Premiera (współ-autoetnografia wykładu)

Anorektyczki jako homo nekroperformerki. Afektywno sprawcze podmiotki

Antropolog wobec odmienności kulturowej i przyrodniczej. Refleksje Marii Czaplickiej z ekspedycji syberyjskiej

Constructing Social Cohesion in Vietnamese Public Schools: The Methods, and Students’ Forgotten Identities

Narrative Cities - Literary Edinburgh A Model to Follow

Intersections of Literature and Ethnography in the United States

Etnografia osobista. Antropolożka i antropolog w terenie