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Theatrum archaeologicum: staging the past via archaeological fêtes and historical re-enactment

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Pawleta M.
Sprawozdania Archeologiczne
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2017
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vol. 69
33-53
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In this article I argue that archaeology can be viewed as an “art” of staging the past. Archaeology as a discipline generates accounts of past time by creating some complete narratives which can be textual, visual, or take the form of staged events – a staging. Archaeological fêtes and the staged reconstructions which fall under the umbrella term of the so-called historical re-enactment are examples of forms of narrating the past. In this article I present arguments that these forms instantiate new modes of talking about the past, presenting, popularizing and experiencing the past which are based on attractiveness, wide accessibility, participation and affective engagement. The phenomena under discussion illustrate the theatralisation of the past defi ned as all modes of presenting and relating historical events, processes and persons with the use of theatrical practices – costumes, personalized drama, staging, etc. Following this line of reasoning, I argue in the present article that fêtes and historical re-enactments can be perceived as a spectacle or a show and analysed with the use of methodology applied to describe cultural events understood as a broad concept.
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Festyny archeologiczne: pomiędzy edukacją, popularyzacją a komercjalizacją

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Pawleta M.
Raport
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2016
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vol. 11
257-275
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In this text, I discuss a phenomenon of archaeological festivals in Poland. In my opinion, in many aspects, they represent signum temporis of present times, being a place where tendencies, topics and phenomena characteristic for our era cumulate, intertwine and coexist. Therefore, I think that the attempts to explain the phenomenon, popularity and current significance of archaeological festivals only through emphasising their educational and popularising role are insufficient and require adopting a far broader cultural perspective.
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Przeszłość na sprzedaż. Archeologia i jej wytwory w kulturze konsumpcyjnej we współczesnej Polsce

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Pawleta M.
Rocznik Antropologii Historii
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2018
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issue 11, Kulturowa historia wiedzy
241-282
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Consumer culture exerts an overwhelming influence on the ways that govern human relationships with the past, causing the commodification and commercialization of the past. These phenomena should be defined as exposing, selling and consuming the past (history), knowledge about it and its material heritage as products of market value and undertaking efforts to make them a recognizable product. As a result of commercialization, the past and its relics are more and more often treated as a “resource” used for various purposes, and heritage as a deliberately created product, serving the satisfaction of human consumption needs, including the need for entertainment. In the article, I critically analyze various forms of social consumption of the past, investigated by archeology, in the form of, among others, archaeological reconstructions, spectacles and stagings in a form of archaeological festivals and historical reenactment presentations, and casual adaptation of the symbolism of the past in the context of popular culture. Commercialization of the past does not necessarily have a negative meaning and should only be associated with a profit-seeking motives. Commercial initiatives can often play an important role in transmitting knowledge about the past in an attractive way and creating images of the past that enable people a wide access to the past. Nevertheless, the of commodification of the past shows by its nature that the past for present-day people has acquired an exchange value.
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Historical Re-enactment in Poland: Between Faithfulness to History and the Imperative of Spectacularity

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Olechnicki K., Szlendak T.
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2020
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vol. 209
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issue 1
3-22
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The article is the result of a research project devoted to Polish historical re-enactment groups which are becoming very popular and influential and can be seen as a part of the multi-sensory culture of the event. During ethnographic research, we raised the issue of the commercialisation of historical re-enactment and the alleged educational value of the related activities, deliberating whether it was possible to reconcile faithfulness to history with the demands of commercial events, the passion with the pursuit of profit, and teaching with entertainment. The research included the evaluational dimension and questions on the role of re-enactment in the cultural policy of the country. The findings indicated that the movement was ambiguous and multidimensional and that numerous answers existed to the question about the re-enactors’ motivations essentially because the groups are divided into hobbyist re-enactors and commercial re-enactors. We found that re-enactment was effective in instilling historical knowledge, although not into the spectators, but into the re-enactors themselves. Re-enactment events usually failed to stimulate the spectators’ interest in history. A considerable majority of these events remained intellectually passive, which caused any educational effect to be momentary and superficial.
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An expedition of Henry II, King of Germany, to the domain of Bolesław I the Brave in 1005 in the light of written sources and historical re-enactment

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Danielewski M.
Slavia Antiqua: rocznik poświęcony starożytnościom słowiańskim
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2022
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issue 63
259-276
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The article explores an expedition of Henry II, king of Germany, to the domain of Bolesław the Brave in 1005. While the issue has raised considerable interest in academic literature, the analyses have been carried out mainly in the context of major events i.e. the wars of 1002-1005, 1007-1013 and 1015-1018. In this work, an attempt has been made to narrow down the perspective to Henry II’s expedition of 1005 which reached as far as Poznań. To this end, I have analysed the written sources (specifically the records of Thietmar of Merseburg, a German chronicler) in an effort to indicate not only the expedition’s itinerary but also its rate and the state of preparation of the two major parties of the conflict, the German Reich and the Piast dominion. In addition, I have decided to make use of my experience of historical re-enactment in a pioneering way, in order to find out if the rate of the marching maintained by contemporary re-enactors of historical events provides a good comparison background for the rate of Henry II’s expedition of 1005. Next, archaeological sources provided some supplementary information on the conflict of 1005. In the light of all these data I have managed to adopt a different and unique approach to the analysed issue.
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The attitudes of the contemporary Poles towards the archaeological past

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Pawleta M.
Folia Praehistorica Posnaniensia
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2021
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vol. 26
309-329
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This paper aims to present how the past is viewed in contemporary cultural and social narratives, and defines contemporary attitude to the past among Poles. My deliberations are placed in the context of the present-day society/culture and their constituting processes, namely the phenomenon of forgetting the past, democratization of the past, its privatization/individualization, commodification of the past and new ways of experiencing it. The paper will specifically concentrate on the archaeological past - that is the past created by archaeologists, and on archaeological heritage. It address three crucial issues, namely: (1) how changes in the historical context of post-1989 Poland influenced the emergence the renaissance of the past and different narratives about it; (2) what are the most important and widespread forms of presenting and/or experiencing the archaeological past in the present?, and (3) what are the main motivations that lie behind contemporary Poles interest in the past, archaeological heritage and activities undertaken around it? Finally, it is argued that the changes in the people’s attitudes towards the past have led also to a transformation in the hierarchy of aims and methods in education and dissemination of the knowledge about the past within institutions concerned with the past on a professional level.
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The Ludification of the Archaeological Past – Opportunities and Threats

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Pawleta M.
Analecta Archaeologica Ressoviensia
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2018
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vol. 13
49-68
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The subject of this paper is the archaeologically created past, seen as a reservoir of pleasure. The topic is discussed in comparison with changes of the contemporary man’s approach to the past. The organising motif of my reflections is the category of pleasure and different ways of pursuing it by people, mainly by means of broadly understood play. I propose here two theses, namely: (1) in the contemporary world the past, being a point of reference for archaeological investigation, may constitute a source of pleasure or inspiration to search for pleasure; (2) the ways of presenting the past to a certain degree have been subjugated by the rules that have been reserved for the domains of entertainment and consumption. This paper will relate to: (1) the pleasure of exploring of the past; (2) the pleasure of re-enacting and performing the past, and (3) the pleasure of playing with the past during archaeological fêtes.
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