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Kultura materialna. Nowy paradygmat antropologiczny

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Barański J.

Lud

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2013

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vol. 97

39-56

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The beginnings of modern material culture studies in anthropology are also the beginnings of modern anthropology – both should be associated with the work of Malinowski, Boas and Mauss, as well as with the holistic and multi-functional approach to culture. These theories found their continuation in the concepts of Evans-Pritchard, and in the “culture and personality” school, but with the changing scope of cultural anthropology the subject lost its importance in the postwar period. Meanwhile, it was taken up by some neighbouring disciplines, especially history, sociology and psychology (Prown, Baudrillard, Bourdieu, Csikszentmihalyi), which contributed to the appearance of a strong interdisciplinary approach in material culture studies. Last decade of the twentieth and early twenty-first century brought about a revival of the subject in cultural anthropology (Sahlins, Douglas, McCracken, Appadurai, Kopytoff, Gell). It is associated with the recognition of the growing importance of the consumer culture – a phenomenon of everyday life in the Western world, as well as the increase of cultural subjectivity and reflexivity. The growing interest in material culture is maintained by posthumanity movement (Ingold, Latour), exposing the hybrid, symbiotic nature of the relationship between human beings and things. The latest history of material culture studies and contemporary trends make it likely that the research will be developed on a macro- (global economic processes), meso- (group identification, local) and microcultural level (identity, lifestyles).

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Suturing a Wounded Body-Wounded Mind in Red Silk on White Linen: Embodied and Hand(Y) Knowledge of Trauma

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Goggin M. D.

Linguaculture

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2012

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vol. 2012

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issue 1

27-46

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In 1830, Elizabeth Parker, daughter of a day laborer and of a teacher in Ashburnham, East Sussex, England, cross-stitched in red silk thread an extraordinarily complex text that participates in several genres, including a memoir of her then brief life of some seventeen years, a confession, a suicide note, and a prayer. These various genres cohere around one momentous event in Parker’s young life: the sexual violation and physical abuse at the hands of her employer, Lt. G. After suturing 46 lines, 1,722 words, and 6,699 characters, she stops mid-line and mid-way down her cloth with the powerful plea, “What will become of my soul[?]” This paper argues that Parker’s sampler was a robust site in which Parker was able to grapple with her wounded body and mind. To justify the claim that a woman’s stitching can be interpreted as an epistemic activity, the proposed paper turns to two key concepts “situated knowledges” and “embodied knowledge”- both of which have been posited by feminists as a way to destabilize the dominant validation of disembodied, abstract thinking where the eye serves as the mind’s tool of investigation. (Haraway; Knappett; Frank; Driver)

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Elementy kultury materialnej i duchowej w poezji B. I. Antonycza

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Ksenicz A.

Acta Polono-Ruthenica

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2009

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vol. Tom 1 Nr XIV

127-135

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The article is an attempt to elucidate certain elements in the poetry of B. I Antonycz, the author of Green Gospel, that is closely related to his biography. The material and spiritual cultural elements of the Lower Beskids residents, which were very important in Antonycz’s poetry, are analyzed. These elements play a significant role in the projection of his „small fatherland”. In the author’s poetic imagination, the memory of the green Beskids, rites, religiosity, beliefs and traditions of the mountaineers are transformed into an exceptionally colorful world, where the boundary between reality and myth is traversed.

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Obyczajowość Tatarów polsko‑litewskich na Wileńszczyźnie

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Smajkiewicz-Murman D.

Acta Baltico-Slavica

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2013

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vol. 37

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The culture of Polish-Lithuanian Tatars in the Vilnius regionThe article analyses the culture of the Tatars who came to the Vilnius region centuries ago. In 1945, most of the Tatars from the region decided to go to Poland during the process of repatriation, because they were entitled to do so as Polish citizens.First, the article provides a description of the Tatars’ Muslim religion: the Quran, the doctrine and the dogmas of Islam, mosques, imams and their religious functions, festivals, and prayers. The subsequent part analyses Tatar’s symbolic culture: science, writing, language diversity, legends and superstitions, professions; material culture: clothes, cuisine, the interiors of mosques and grave adornments; as well as their rituals and ceremonies: giving names to children, weddings, funerals, rites of brotherhood, sacrifice.All names and the terminology are given in their official and colloquial versions, as well as in the version “that is used / was used in everyday conversations”. This shows the influence of the linguistic environment, which began already in the area of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. Бытовой уклад польско-литовских татар на ВиленщинеВ статье представлены черты бытового уклада общества татар, столетия назад осевших в Виленском крае. Большая часть татарского населения этих мест, имея польское гражданство, воспользовалась правом «репатриации» в Польшу. Автор знакомит нас с основами мусульманской религии татарского населения и, в этой связи, в доступной форме напоминает основы Корана, говорит о доктрине и догматах ислама, о мечети, имаме и функциях имамов (выполняемых ими религиозных услугах), о праздниках и молитвах. В последующих подразделах описывается духовная культура – наука, письменность, языковая разнородность, легенды, суеверия, профессиональная деятельность; материальная культура – одежда, кухня, убранство мечетей, могил, а также обряды – наречение ребёнка именем, бракосочетание, похороны, побратимство, жертвоприношение. Очень важным является закрепление ономастических определений и терминов в рассматриваемой тематике, представляемых в официальной и разговорной версиях, а также в версии «так, как произносят / произносили». Это отображает влияния языковой среды, закрепившиеся в прошлом, ещё на землях Великого княжества Литовского.

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Los espacios domésticos para la lectura y el atesoramiento de libros: una visión sobre la Zaragoza del barroco

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Postiigo Vidal J.

Studia Europaea Gnesnensia

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2020

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issue 22

9-20

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The intention of this paper is to introduce the reader to the issue of space where one used to read and collect books within the residential structures in seventeenth-century Zaragoza. For this purpose, the author analyzes the inventories of movables, the essential source for studies into aspects of daily life and material culture.

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Czech (Post)Socialist DIY-Material Culture as Vernacular Art: Inscribed Narratives and Their Urban Materialisation

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Hodúlová T.

Studia Ethnologica Pragensia

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2020

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vol. 1

37-57

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The aim of this paper is to rethink the narratives surrounding Czech (post)socialist Do-It-Yourself material culture (DIY) and to explore how it has become a medium for symbolic expression in urban and rural spaces after the (post)socialist transformation. Employing theoretical frameworks of material culture (Miller, 1998; Sennett, 2008), this paper argues that Czech (post)socialist DIY material culture should be conceptualised as “vernacular art”, an art which harbours and triggers memories of the (socialist) past as well as reflects wider contemporary social relationships, the exchange of materials and ideas and the political-economic milieu. Artefacts as vernacular art represent social, cultural and political dis/continuities in urban and rural spaces brought about by the (post)socialist transformation, which can also act as symbolic manifestations in the sense of the Lefebvre’s social production of space and time (Lefebvre, 1991). Based on my research, vernacular art made by handy/wo/men is a multi-layered concept, which manifests time, space, creative and affective dimensions. Simultaneously, it is a micro-spatial practice driven by authority and autonomy that reshapes urban/rural spaces.

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Życie międzynarodowe rzeczy. Przedmioty luksusu i codziennego użytku w społecznej historii stosunków międzynarodowych

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GAŁGANEK A.

Przegląd Politologiczny

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2011

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issue 3

7-34

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The paper discusses the potential of objects, broadly understood luxury ‘items’ and necessities, in order to present uneven and combined development as the foundation of the social history of international relations. The author evidences that this approach to ‘objects’ allows us to achieve, at the very least, the following: (1) to observe the single social world which emerges after the division into ‘internal’ and ‘international’ is rejected; (2) to ‘touch’ the international outside the realm that the science of international relations usually associates with international politics; (3) to examine the social history of international relations, abandoning the approach that dominates in traditional historiography where production processes are privileged over consumption processes; (4) to demonstrate how human activities create internationalism. Discussing apparently different processes related to the international life of broadly understood ‘objects’, such as African giraffes, Kashmiri shawls, silk, the importance of English items for the inhabitants of Mutsamudu, or the opera Madame Butterfly the author identifies similar patterns which, although sometimes concealed, demonstrate the consequences of uneven and combined development for the social history of international relations. Prestige goods express affluence, success and power. They are usually objects manufactured from imported raw materials or materials, with limited distribution, which require a significant amount of labor or advanced technology to create. In contrast to everyday necessities, owing to their high value, prestige goods are exchanged over long distances through networks established by the elite. The analysis of manufacturing, exchange and social contexts related to prestige goods constitutes a significant source for understanding the social history of international relations. The examples in the paper present control over these goods as a source of political power. The control of raw materials, production and distribution of prestige goods is perceived as key to maintaining hierarchical social systems. Objects are inescapably related to ideas and practices. Uneven and combined development leads to meetings between people and objects, either opening or closing the space, allowing for their transfer and domestication, or rejection and destruction respectively. Concentration on the analyses of objects outside of modernization models or comparisons between civilizations and the conscious narrowing of perspective offers a tool with a heuristic potential which is interesting in the context of international relations. Comparative observation of objects (‘single’ elements of reality) via cultures undergoing uneven and combined development protects us from historiographic western exceptionalism. It also shows that the division between the ‘internal’ and ‘international’ unjustifiably splits the social world and makes it impossible to understand.

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Material culture of multilingualism and affectivity

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Aronin L.

Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching

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2012

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vol. 2

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issue 2

179-191

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Affectivity is an important dimension in humans’ social and individual lives. It is either a stimulating or hindering aspect of language learning. This article aims to draw attention to material culture as a powerful, but mostly neglected source of data on the use and acquisition of languages, and demonstrates the close and intricate links between affectivity and material culture. It is hoped that revealing these interrelationships will assist in understanding and managing language diversity. It will allow practitioners and teachers to carry out social and private encounters, events and language teaching with more care, understanding and expertise. Researchers will be encouraged to join the investigation of yet one more important facet of multilingualism – material culture.

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Cosmopolitanism Sits in Places: Consumption and Cosmopolitics in Latin America

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Thompson D.

International Review of Social Research

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2012

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vol. 2

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issue 3

59-77

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Abstract. Renewed interest in cosmopolitanism has spread across the humanities and social sciences in recent decades. However, this growth has also carried many of the values underpinning cosmopolitanism as a Kantian ideal, including a denigration of consumption and material relations in favour of a putatively social core. In this article, however, I argue that cosmopolitanism is lived through the relations and politics of materiality and consumerism. Through an investigation of ethnographies of urban poverty in Latin America, cosmopolitanism emerges as a diverse, locally instantiated ideology and identity which diverges from many of the debates circulating in sites of academia. With an emphasis on marginalised communities, I reconsider cosmopolitanism as a series of material identities and relationships that develop within the context of economic and social inequality in both local and global scales.

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The Configuration of ‘Young’ Spaces in Brasil in the late 1960s: Pop Domesticity Through the Perspective of the MagazineCasa & Jardim

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dos Santos M. R., Pedro J. M., Rial C.

International Review of Social Research

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2012

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vol. 2

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issue 1

127-142

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The pop movement appeared in industrial Western societies as a manifestation of the urban youth culture. It is frequently associated with the worldwide behavioral revolution of the sixties. Part of the youth population used pop expressions with irreverent and strong visual impact as generation markers. This article affirms that pop artifacts of the 1960s and 1970s found in Brazilian interior decoration are part of the material culture of that period as included in domestic spaces designed for youth. We argue that pop artifacts and interior decoration in the country both expressed and shaped new behavioral patterns among young people. Our sources are particular representations of domestic spaces published in issues of the popular magazine Casa & Jardim.

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Material culture of multilingualism and affectivity

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Aronin L.

Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching

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2012

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vol. 2

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issue 2

179-191

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Affectivity is an important dimension in humans’ social and individual lives. It is either a stimulating or hindering aspect of language learning. This article aims to draw attention to material culture as a powerful, but mostly neglected source of data on the use and acquisition of languages, and demonstrates the close and intricate links between affectivity and material culture. It is hoped that revealing these interrelationships will assist in understanding and managing language diversity. It will allow practitioners and teachers to carry out social and private encounters, events and language teaching with more care, understanding and expertise. Researchers will be encouraged to join the investigation of yet one more important facet of multilingualism – material culture.

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Textiles in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century probate inventories from Styria (Austria): innovation and distribution

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Pöttler B.

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

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2023

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vol. 110

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issue 1

11-31

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This paper focuses on the inhabitants of the duchy of Styria, the inhabitants of small towns, market towns, the capital Graz and rural dominions. There is a particular emphasis on local merchants who were distributors of fabrics and final products. Their probate inventories allow us to gain insights into the products that were locally available and are often regarded as best source for research into changes in consumer habits. Cotton and silk are important indicators of such changes. The article is based on probate inventories covering the period from around 1660 to around 1790, along with several examples from before and after this period. The core of the research database is nearly 1,140 probate inventories from the monastery of Seckau, around 110 from the city of Graz, and another 234 from other Styrian towns, market towns, and dominions. Despite the relatively large number of sources, the study follows a historical-anthropological approach.

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Drinking Horns in Old Norse Culture A Tradition Under Examination

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Hofmann A.

Analecta Archaeologica Ressoviensia

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2015

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vol. 10

241–270

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By comparing archaeological finds with literary evidence this article seeks to reconstruct the role of drinking horns during the Viking Age. After an overview of drinking horns as represented in archaeology, several literary texts, predominantly Medieval Icelandic sagas, will be studied to shed further light on how drinking horns were seen and used. Drinking horns were used as a literary motif in these texts, but it can be demonstrated that they can also be linked to the archaeological evidence from the Viking Age, thus improving our understanding of the archaeological record.

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Co říká dům : možnosti k symetrickému přístupu k materialitě domova

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Pauknerová K.

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

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2014

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vol. 101

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issue 4

439-458

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The article discusses the possibility of a symmetrical approach in the anthropological study of the materiality of home. After an overview of the development in material culture studies and anthropological research of home, the author discusses two examples of anthropological writing about home: a description of home from Margaret Mead´s autobiography and Inge Daniels´ contemporary anthropological study from Japan.

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Rzecz jako „sposób na szarość, lekarstwo na beznadzieję” w prozie dla młodzieży Katarzyny Ryrych

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Kajstura J.

Annales Universitatis Paedagogicae Cracoviensis. Studia Poetica

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2018

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vol. 6

168-180

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The article is an attempt to read books for young adult written by Katarzyna Ryrych – Pepa w raju,Król,Denim blue, by using the category of non-anthropocentric humanism. The tekst refers to a Przemysław Czapliński’s literary studies concentrating around things in modern literature. Katarzyna Ryrych presents the problems of modern teenagers, but she is aslo concentrate around everyday objects, clothes, souvenirs, and utensils. Ryrych used things to create heroes’ characteristics, describe their problems, and show interpersonal relationships. The author, according to Bjørnar Olsen’s theory, shows the influence of objects on the creation of the human psyche. Practices in relation to material objects, however, do not lead to materialism for the practices in relation to things are in a sense the learning of another person, remembering him, building relationships with another person.

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Militarne reprezentacje w prozie Tadeusza Kudlińskiego

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Rozmus J.

Annales Universitatis Paedagogicae Cracoviensis. Studia Historicolitteraria

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2018

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vol. 18

153-162

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The view of Europe betweeen 19th and 20th centuries was shaped mainly by militarism. It is confirmed by the works of Michael Howard, Ian F.W. Beckett, Martin van Creveld, and also material culture, which is the heritage of those times. Architecture, technology, as well assculptures and paintings created shortly before the First World War are an illustration of how Polish literature reacted to the conflict of 1914–1918. In Tadeusz Kudliński’s novel Smak świata, where the main character is an officer of the Austro-Hungarian artillery, the world is dominated by machines: railway, telephone etc. According to Bjonar Olsen, those things represent material culture in the view of Tim Dant, allowing the main character to keep his identity. The collection of essays Młodości mej stolica. Wspomnienia krakowianina między wojnami provide the reader with a historical view of the war in the Carpathian Mountains and on the Italian front.

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Hmotná kultura a projevy mentality venkovské společnosti (Jižní Čechy, 17.-18. století)

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Grulich J., Matlas P.

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

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2009

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vol. 96

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issue 1

1-34

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The text focuses on the problem of the material culture of the village in the seventeenth and eighteenth century. However, the main goal was not to reconstruct the complete material furnishings of the village homestead. This represents just one of the possible ways for approaching the inner spiritual life of the village population. The text is based on the empirical research of the archival sources. The archival information was subsequently confronted with the results of older scientific works with the same objectives. The text is composed as a case study based on the sources coming from four dominions of South Bohemia (Třeboň, Hluboká nad Vltavou, Protivín and Orlík nad Vltavou). As a main point of departure from the point of view of the heuristic were used inheritance inventories, supplemented by documents from the area of criminal law. From the point of view of the method, the work can be classified as microhistory. It makes use especially of the reflexive approaches of historical anthropology; in the realm of theory, it draws upon the “history from below” concepts. Even though the text is not apurely regional study, the authors do not aim to generalizations in the first place. They are well aware of the fact that the validity of some partial information cannot be carried over mechanically to other ethnographical areas.

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Ceramic production in Roman-age Apulia: lychnological contexts

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Fioriello C. S.

Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean

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2019

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vol. 28(1)

181-215

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Archaeological research in Apulia have given solid grounds for a historical characteristic of the region, specifying the nature of settlements and their socio-economic environment in the Roman age. But production centers, primarily pottery workshops, as well as commonly traded shapes, trade routes and consumer centers still are in need of comprehensive study. For this purpose a targeted examination of Apulia et Calabria has been launched, identifying places and modalities of pottery production from the 3rd century BC to the 3rd century AD on the grounds of both permanent installations and mobile finds. This contribution, which takes advantage of the documentation collected within the frame of this research, seeks to identify and contextualize sites where clay oil lamps were being produced, through the scopes of production continuity/discontinuity and the modalities of settlement, craft, economy and commerce.

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Race and Responses to Violence in Prayer Shawl Ministries

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Bowman D.

Open Theology

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2016

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vol. 2

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issue 1

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Prayer shawl ministries, overwhelmingly led and staffed by women, aim to give comfort to the bereaved. Shawl makers often want to respond to communal tragedy and grief such as mass shootings. This case study uses qualitative interviews with shawl makers from white and African-American ministry groups, placing their statements in the context of benevolent handwork, disaster response, and the culture of mass shootings. The ordinary theology of shawl makers is forged in a “chronic mode,” responding to individual instances of grief in the ministry’s neighborhood. “Crisis mode” operations, where shawls are part of multifaceted mobilization efforts to bring relief to a large number of victims, may clarify, test, extend, or alter these meanings. White shawl makers were appalled at the suffering inflicted by the Sandy Hook school shooting and took pride in their ability to make a difference, while black shawl makers were guided by concerns about discipline, process, and preservation of community. These results suggest that perceptions of normalcy influence the response of caretaking ministries to violence and trauma, revealing a distinction between restorative efforts and the development of resilience.

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„Jakaś groza wieje od tych pól ponurych” – świadkowie i dziedzictwo masowych, drugowojennych zbrodni w Dolinie Śmierci w Chojnicach

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Kobiałka D.

Folia Praehistorica Posnaniensia

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2021

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vol. 26

123-144

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This paper discusses the results of the research carried out in a project entitled An archaeology of the Death Valley. First, the historical context related to mass killings on the outskirts of Chojnice during the Second World War is sketched. Then, the results of the archaeological field research are presented. The last part is about ethnographic research which allowed to document various memories related to mass killings in the Death Valley as well as human and non-human witnesses of these events. The idea behind this paper is to show that archaeology and ethnography are crucial in discovering and documenting sites of mass killings and their heritage.

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Kultura materialna. Nowy paradygmat antropologiczny

Suturing a Wounded Body-Wounded Mind in Red Silk on White Linen: Embodied and Hand(Y) Knowledge of Trauma

Elementy kultury materialnej i duchowej w poezji B. I. Antonycza

Obyczajowość Tatarów polsko‑litewskich na Wileńszczyźnie

Los espacios domésticos para la lectura y el atesoramiento de libros: una visión sobre la Zaragoza del barroco

Czech (Post)Socialist DIY-Material Culture as Vernacular Art: Inscribed Narratives and Their Urban Materialisation

Życie międzynarodowe rzeczy. Przedmioty luksusu i codziennego użytku w społecznej historii stosunków międzynarodowych

Material culture of multilingualism and affectivity

Cosmopolitanism Sits in Places: Consumption and Cosmopolitics in Latin America

The Configuration of ‘Young’ Spaces in Brasil in the late 1960s: Pop Domesticity Through the Perspective of the MagazineCasa & Jardim

Material culture of multilingualism and affectivity

Textiles in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century probate inventories from Styria (Austria): innovation and distribution

Drinking Horns in Old Norse Culture A Tradition Under Examination

Co říká dům : možnosti k symetrickému přístupu k materialitě domova

Rzecz jako „sposób na szarość, lekarstwo na beznadzieję” w prozie dla młodzieży Katarzyny Ryrych

Militarne reprezentacje w prozie Tadeusza Kudlińskiego

Hmotná kultura a projevy mentality venkovské společnosti (Jižní Čechy, 17.-18. století)

Ceramic production in Roman-age Apulia: lychnological contexts

Race and Responses to Violence in Prayer Shawl Ministries

„Jakaś groza wieje od tych pól ponurych” – świadkowie i dziedzictwo masowych, drugowojennych zbrodni w Dolinie Śmierci w Chojnicach