Samospalenie: akt-widowisko. Kilka słów o sprawczej mocy (pewnej) fotografii

• Authors: Grzegorz Ziółkowski
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

Self-immolation is understood in this text as a public act of self-sacrifi ce and a type of altruistic suicide. In order to capture its specifi city it seems necessary to employ a compound category of ‘act-performance’ because – on the one hand – it is an act of sacrifi cial suicide, and on the other – it is carried out publicly and demonstratively, like a performance (i.e. with attention to every element of the event, just as happens in other types of public performance). Acts of this type have become a part of the arsenal of peaceful protest activities since the second half of the twentieth century. Th is happened aft er the media publicized act-performance (11 June 1963) of Vietnamese Buddhist monk, Th ích Quảng Ðức, which becomes the main point of focus in this study.

Keywords

EN

act; anthropology of performance; media; performance

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Jagielloński
• Journal: Prace Etnograficzne
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 42
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 123–134

Dates

published

2014

online

2014-12-02

Contributors

author

Grzegorz Ziółkowski

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Identifiers

DOI

10.4467/22999558.PE.14.010.2833