Taniec wokół dzikiego

• Authors: Ewa Kosowska

Title variants

EN

DANCING AROUND THE SAVAGE

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

A tendency to create a simplified image of people from a different culture may, in the case of intercontinental contacts, develop into a stereotype. The author of the article, analysing the basis of the European myth through the perspective of the Europeans’ attitude to others, points to a significant intrinsic differentiation of the concept of “alien”. While “barbarians” have been known to the Europeans for a long time, the concept of “savage” is a newer term, bearing a different functionality and being definitely more depreciating – at least from the Polish linguistic perspective.

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Wroclawskiego
• Journal: Prace Kulturoznawcze
• Year: 2012
• Volume: 14
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 67-78

Contributors

author

Ewa Kosowska