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“One Thousand Pieces of Eyes”: A Few Notes on Antonín Salač’s 1920–1921 Trip to Greece

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De Armond T.

Eirene. Studia Graeca et Latina

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2018

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vol. 54

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issue 1-2

169-191

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The following paper considers the Czech classical scholar Antonin Salač’s (1885–1960) abortive attempts to network with Greek people and institutions during his first trip to Greece, in 1920–1921. As a scholar from Czechoslovakia, a new country lacking both funding and geopolitical clout, Salač leveraged a wide range of – ultimately, unsuccessful – strategies to create the connections that might support future research in Greece. This paper broadens our conceptions of how classical studies “works”, beyond the success stories of wealthy and powerful states.

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Poza marginesem. Pamięć i reprezentacje przeszłości w materiałach źródłowych Polskiego atlasu etnograficznego

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Drożdż A.

Studia Etnologiczne i Antropologiczne

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2016

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vol. 16

215-237

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In this paper I discuss the possibilities of interpreting the archival materials of the Polski atlas etnograficzny by means of modern theories of memory. Referring to the theory of representation, memory locations or microhistory, new contexts of the functioning of phenomena or behaviours that are studied may be found in the records that were collected. The value of the source materials is not only in their substantive content but also in the scale of research with which they were collected. The atlas data, despite all their limitations, provide ample opportunities for the interpretation of such representations of the past, being a true reservoir of them. In many cases they require an individual approach, the knowledge of the specific context and a presentation of the interpretations in the form of a specific microhistory. Some, however, are experienced by a larger group of people, thus legitimizinginferences of a more general nature.

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Quo vadis antropologio historyczna? Historiografia pomiędzy kulturoznawstwem historycznym a mikrohistorią

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Medick H.

Rocznik Antropologii Historii

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2013

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issue 2(5), Genealogie kultury

185–202

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Reprint: H. Medic, Quo vadis Historische Anthropologie? Geschichtsforschung zwischen Historischer Kulturwissenschaft und Mikro¬Historie, „Historische Anthropologie. Kultur. Gesellschaft. Alltag”, 2001, t. 9, z. 1, s. 78–92.

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Wspomnienia wojenne jako literatura i źródło historyczne w wybranych pamiętnikach okresu II wojny światowej

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Kuczek M.

Annales Universitatis Paedagogicae Cracoviensis. Studia Poetica

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2016

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vol. 4

116-128

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This paper aims at defining the features of literature of reminiscence, especially of works related to the Second World War. The analysis is based on two memoirs: „Mój wrzesień 1939” [„My September 1939”] by Marian Jędo and „Inną drogą” [„Another way”] by Wiesław Widloch. The texts shows how the authors share their experiences/stories with recipients. As noted by Hayden White, it is impossible to get an objective image of past events, but one can analyze the way these events were experienced and described. As a consequence, the paper starts with theoretical considerations about the functioning of both historical narration and narration of reminiscence in contemporary historical and Literature theses, and also among the recipients of historical books. In fact it is worth mentioning the connection between the research on literature of reminiscence and microhistory studies. In both cases the key issue is to focus on the life of a selected person and to see the world from his or her perspective. Among the research methods used in the present work one can find not only methods defined in the literature dedicated to memoirs analysis but also methods created by historians representing historicism.

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Between Culture and Nature: Some Considerations on the Life History Perspective

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Zamorski K.

Historyka Studia Metodologiczne

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2021

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vol. 51

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issue Spec. iss.

369-387

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Life history is a term usually assigned in the history of historiography to the Italian school of microhistory. In fact, it is a concept typical for the natural sciences in the case of which it is a framework focused on studies of life history strategies as well as life cycles. Life history analysis has become the subject of numerous studies around the world and has been gaining in popularity in social sciences. The author presents life history as a certain research perspective for historical studies which is capable of incorporating both natural and cultural approaches. He draws inspirations of the life history perspective from recent research into history of modern Poland.

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Mikrohistoria na obrzeżach metanarracji. List Marii Kuńskiej z Brzeska do Bolesława Bieruta w związku z akcją „Wisła”

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Syrnyk J.

Śląski Kwartalnik Historyczny Sobótka

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2020

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vol. 75

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issue 2

135-144

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The inspiration to write the article has been provided by a source document – a letter from a woman from Besko to Polish president Bolesław Bierut with a request to be exempted from displacement during Operation Vistula, launched in April 1947. An analysis of the document, employing the thick description method, resulted in working conclusions pertaining both the specific event and the context in which it occurred, as well as conclusions concerning potential new research fields.

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Svobodníci a právo. Případ Pavla Sládka jinak Cíchy z roku 1663 a krajští hejtmané jako soudní instance

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Vacek J., Reischlová D.

Folia historica Bohemica

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2021

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vol. 36

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issue 1

55-76

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This study deals with the legal status of royal libertines in the period after the Battle of White Mountain and their embedment in the period legal system. On the example of investigation of a particular criminal case, the study demonstrates a broad range of differences in the legal status of members of this group, as well as different ways they were treated by manorial and land officials. The main source is a criminal investigation file from 1663 concerning adultery and a subsequent attempt to arrest libertine Pavel Sládek alias Cícha, in which a course of an investigation of the committed offences is recorded. In addition to this file, other relevant sources were used as well in order to see the case from a more complex perspective, including its extralegal aspects. It followed from an analysis that were the libertine to end up in front of a court, it was necessary to proceed through the Royal Prosecution. Also, a hypothesis is presented that in some criminal cases, land captains conducted their own proceedings in which they acted as judges. The study builds on a microhistorical approach which allows to capture, describe, and evaluate details of the studied case and embed it into the relevant legal-historical context.

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Rahvatraditsiooni kasutusvoimalustest talurahva ajaloo uurimisel

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Tarkiainen Ü.

Mäetagused

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2016

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vol. 65

31-54

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The possibilities for using folklore in studying history are directly dependent on the raised problem. In memories about the distant past, reality and fiction are often mixed up, which is why historians may regard the reliability of such stories as low. Still, such folklore shows what was valued, which events were felt to be significant and important. For historians, problems have been posed by the reliability and difficulties in dating the lore. In connection with the emergence of microhistory, more and more attention is being paid to how and what people thought, and it is often very difficult to find answers to this question in written sources. This article observes the possibilities for using historical tradition in the studies of agrarian and settlement history and, more specifically, five narrow topics that concern border markers, the emergence of villages, land use in farms, inheritance matters, and beggars. Oral tradition about the founding of villages and farms and their first settlers is in most cases connected with the periods of war and the plague, immigration of people, or some other extraordinary event. Descriptions of everyday life, which are abundantly found in folk memory, usually speak about well known and familiar things. At the same time, they considerably help to broaden notions of the past and enable to find out the peasants’ attitudes towards and evaluations of one or another event or phenomenon. As a result of taking folklore into consideration, the picture of history becomes much more differentiated and colourful. The folklore that has been observed in this article is closely connected with the village society, and it primarily reveals notions connected with the farm people’s everyday life. Archive sources usually disclose them from quite a different point of view. As a result of the analysis, we have reached the conclusion that the best results are achieved when historical tradition is taken into account for relatively recent events, those that have happened since the second half of the 19th century, and under circumstances in which spatial relationships have not considerably changed. The use of earlier lore is more complicated, although it also enables us to see people’s attitudes, which gives a ‘soul’ to the discussed phenomena. The biggest difference is that archive materials, naturally, do not reflect the reasons hidden in the peasants’ mental world. Namely, this is why the use of folklore enables to provide important extra material for studying settlement and agrarian history, which supplements a rational picture about past events and processes, and enables to open up deeper backgrounds to what happened.

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Tanec v literární tvorbě Boženy Němcové: fikce, nebo fakta?

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Stavělová D.

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

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2012

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vol. 99

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issue 3

259-279

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Even a cursory reading of the fiction work of Božena Němcová reveals frequent mentions of dance. The scenes often take place during dancing. The dancing assumes the role of the image in which the important moments of the plot structure are integrated. The patterns of behavior emerge during the dance that turn into testimonies of collectively shared reality. Therefore, the question arises on the sense of these reflections of the dance. Can they serve as a source of information on the dance practices of the time dance, or are they only a product of a literary fiction? This also provokes considerations as for the motivations for depicting the folk dance tradition and what else it reveals about the mutual relations in a given socio-cultural milieu. The article will consider if the dance situation can be considered as a literary device and if the description of the manifestations of folk dance culture could be understood as responding to the contemporaneous interest in traditional village culture as embodiment of positive values, as it reflected in the works of the so called village realists of the second half of the nineteenth century.

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Świadkowie zbrodni – druga wojna światowa w egodokumentach polskich dzieci

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Zając J.

Filoteknos

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2022

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issue 12

401-405

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The article is a review of an anthology edited by Maciej Wróblewski, which includes the compositions of Polish children (written between 1945 and 1946) about their wartime experiences. The editor argues that the discovered in the archives works of students are unique because they are the record of the experiences of these young Polish people during the Second World War. They have documentary value and potential for the use in historical research.

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Putování Marty vojandy – osudy dcery pastora Modlera za třicetileté války

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Stůj P.

Folia historica Bohemica

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2015

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vol. 30

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issue 2

341-368

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Marta Modlerová, as one of the few unmarried women without parents in the 17th century, left behind a deeper trace in early modern sources. Although her story survived only in a shortened form as a record in a pitch book (a protocol on the right to torture, Sternberg 1635), its geographical and chronographic reach allows microhistorical elaboration and explanation of her “historically plausible world”. Episodes in the store serve as an outline for a broader analysis of the woman’s life during the Thirty Year War, where we can see Marta as a servant, sutler or a housemaid involved in infanticide investigation. Her travels around the lands of Bohemia in the men’s clothes are also unusual, but, unlike other known cases (works by Rudolph Dekker or Angela Steidele), we can interpret it only as Marta’s reaction to the unexpected circumstances. The travels of soldier Marta are also unusual because of support from the Sternberg duke, which she experienced.

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A dokąd teraz? Problematyka obozowa w perspektywie jugosłowiańskiej. Przypadek Elviry Kohn

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Taczyńska K.

Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Litteraria Polonica

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2018

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vol. 47

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issue 1

135-158

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The text contains an analysis of photographs and personal (written) documents by Elvira Kohn (1914–2003), a Jew and a female prisoner of Kampor concentration camp, established in July 1942 on Rab island in Croatia. The article explores the specific features of a narrative about World War II and the Jewish experience in Yugoslavia which emerge from the materials. Presented so that they complement each other, photographs understood as photo-texts (Marianna Michałowska) and a diary and a poem recognized as inconspicuous texts (Jerzy Strzelczyk, Inga Iwasiów) form Kohn’s personal narrative. The microhistory (Ewa Domańska) of this photographer and writer is presented as material supplementing the knowledge about the past of Jews in Yugoslavia, which – due to the choices Elvira Kohn made in her life and art – can also be considered as evidence of emancipatory social changes of that period, and as an example of overcoming the existing cultural paradigms.

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A preliminary study on the Indian Grammar manuscripts of the Āmer Śāstrabhand in Jaipur

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Kragh U. T., Jain A.

Przegląd Orientalistyczny

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2019

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issue 1 (269)

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The study of language and grammar is one of the most fundamental parts of an education, and India has a long and sophisticated tradition of language and grammar teaching (vyākarana) that is as old as the Indian scripts and writing themselves. Starting around the fourth century BCE with the grammatical treatises by Pānini and his commentators, the Indian grammarian tradition developed through several distinct schools of grammar and language study. A historical study of these traditions done on the basis of a normal literary history focused on the places and dates of textual composition yields a chronological overview, where certain major traditions are seen as remaining popular over time through a steady production of new texts, whereas other minor systems become replaced by the development of new schools. In contrast, a microhistorical study that assesses the popularity of the different traditions of grammar by examining their concrete textual representations in a particular manuscript collection reveals a local historical record of the popularity of each system within a specific educational community. The present essay provides a microhistorical study of the Digambara manuscript collection Āmer Śāstrabhandār from Āmer and Jaipur in Rajasthan dating from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries. It contributes to the educational history of India by revealing an unexpected continued popularity of the late medieval Sārasvata grammar tradition in the Jaipur area long after this minor grammatical system otherwise has been thought to have gone out of vogue.

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Między mikro- i makrohistorią. Losy Zofii F., mieszkanki Wysowej (pow. gorlicki) w okresie II wojny światowej

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Syrnyk J.

Śląski Kwartalnik Historyczny Sobótka

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2022

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vol. 77

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issue 1

61-76

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The fates of ordinary people during war are often weaved into some kind of metastory. There are important because they constitute a part of the metastory. In the present study, based on archive material – protocols written by one of the members of socalled Security Service of OUN-B, which operated in Poland until the fall of 1947 – a different approach has been adopted. The war events are a background to an attempt of an analysis of a story of a young woman from the village of Wysowa (Gorlice county). It is a story in several acts, a long story, in which we follow the protagonist to the places where she worked during the war and the tracks of her homecoming, through Czech Republic, Romania and Soviet Union – but also a shorter story of her interrogation, with a tragic, as can be assumed, finale for Zofia F.

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Hungarian Stories of the Regime Change: Voices and Perspectives

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Balázs I. J.

Porównania

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2020

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vol. 27

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issue 2

127-139

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Narracje o zmianie ustroju w literaturze węgierskiej zyskały nowy charakter około 2010 r., po dwóch dziesięcioleciach postkomunizmu. Artykuł analizuje strategie narracyjne powieści przedstawiających ten temat, pokazując ich tendencję do przyjmowania mikrohistorycznego punktu widzenia. Omówione zostały również powieści napisane przez autorów wywodzących się z mniejszości etnicznych, takich jak Ádám Bodor, Andrea Tompa, Sándor Zsigmond Papp, Zsolt Láng, którzy w swojej prozie opisują dramatyczną zmianę ustroju, jaka miała miejsce w Rumunii w 1989 r.

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Regime change narratives in Hungarian literature gained a new type of consistency around 2010, after two decades of postcommunism. The article analyses narrative strategies of novels written about the regime change, showing their tendency towards a microhistorical approach. The discussed novels include works by such minority authors as Ádám Bodor, Andrea Tompa, Sándor Zsigmond Papp, Zsolt Láng, who represent in their novels the dramatic regime change that took place in Romania in 1989.

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Les narrations micro-(h)istoriques de Claude Dunetonet de Jean Echenoz

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Sadkowski P.

Kwartalnik Neofilologiczny

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2018

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issue 3

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Edukacyjna i animacyjna rola badań (mikro) historycznych

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Sass M.

Pedagogika Społeczna

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2013 (R. XII)

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issue 1(47)

67 – 84

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Obecny w pedagogice społecznej paradygmat badań jakościowych ma charakter antropologiczno – kulturowy. Stawia na pierwszym planie człowieka i jego świat. Jednostka rozwija się pod wpływem przeszłości i kultury tworząc zarazem własną „teraźniejszość” społeczno – kulturową. Bez poznania dziedzictwa „czasu minionego” nie można w pełni określić swego miejsca w świecie współczesnym. Zastosowanie metody badania w działaniu oraz perspektywy mikrohistorycznej umożliwia poznanie środowiska lokalnego, jego zasobów oraz problemów. Pozwala jednocześnie zaplanować działania edukacyjne i animacyjne zapobiegające wykluczeniu społecznemu oraz sprzyjające dalszemu rozwojowi.

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The qualitative research paradigm present in social pedagogy has an anthropological-cultural character. It emphasizes the human being and their environment. An individual develops under the influence of the past and culture, creating at the same time his or her own social and cultural “now”. Without knowing the heritage of the past times, one cannot fully define their role and place in the contemporary world. Doing action research and conducting studies with microhistorical perspective allow one to learn about the local habitat, its assets and problems. It also goes along with the chance to plan and assign educational and activating tasks which prevent social exclusion and promote further development.

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Giovanni Levis Conception of Microhistory

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Górzan K.

Historyka Studia Metodologiczne

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2007-2008

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vol. 37-38

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The fate of ancestors living in the countryside in family accounts and in-home archives. The “My Family” Project implemented in 2022 by students of the Institute of History of the Jan Kochanowski University in Kielce

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Majcher-Ociesa E., Czerw H., Pierściński K.

Zeszyty Wiejskie

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2023

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vol. 29

289-310

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Powyższy artykuł zawiera wstęp (opisujący problemy związane z badaniem mikrohistorii oraz wyróżniający grupy zainteresowane tego typu rozważaniami), charakterystykę wywiadów i prac pisemnych oraz płynące z nich wnioski. Bazą dla jego powstania był projekt „Moja rodzina” składający się z trzech elementów: pracy pisemnej studentów, nagrania wywiadu z członkiem rodziny (najlepiej babcią lub dziadkiem) oraz wystąpienia podczas konferencji. Projekt został zrealizowany w semestrze letnim 2022 r. Jego uczestnikami byli studenci II roku historii studiów I stopnia w Instytucie Historii Uniwersytetu Jana Kochanowskiego w Kielcach w ramach przedmiotu „Warsztat naukowy historyka”. Studenci zaangażowani w tę inicjatywę wzięli również udział w konferencji pt. „Moja rodzina w źródle archiwalnym” zorganizowanej w ramach cyklu „Spotkania ze źródłem archiwalnym”, która odbyła się 28 IX 2022 r. Sprawozdanie z tego wydarzenia napisał jeden ze studentów biorący udział w przedsięwzięciu. Na pierwszą część projektu złożyły się wywiady studentów przeprowadzone z członkami rodzin. Rodzice i dziadkowie poruszali w nich takie tematy jak: dzieje przodków, lata okupacji niemieckiej i radzieckiej oraz życie codzienne. Przedstawiciele starszego pokolenia skupili się na opowiadaniu o doświadczeniu II wojny światowej na terenie małych miejscowości obecnego woj. świętokrzyskiego, podczas gdy rodzice studentów poruszali tematykę życia codziennego w szarej rzeczywistości PRL-u. Wywiady dotyczące okresu okupacji były emocjonalne, ukazywały bestialstwo Niemców mordujących polską ludność cywilną i wskazują na brak przepracowania tego zagadnienia przez historyków. Pisemne prace studentów dotyczą unikatowej i niepowtarzalnej historii ich przodków. Poruszana w nich tematyka dotyczy głównie losów pradziadków i dziadków autorów prac. Teksty opisują realia kieleckich wsi w okresie II wojny światowej, jak również trudy ówczesnego życia codziennego. Dominująca większość przodków studentów biorących udział w projekcie mieszkała na wsi, mając pochodzenie włościańskie lub ziemiańskie. Artykuł kończą wnioski przedstawione przez studentów podczas dyskusji podsumowującej projekt. Prace studentów mogą zachęcić czytelników do badań nad przeszłością swojej rodziny. Każdy student studiujący historię powinien znać historię swojej rodziny.

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The present article contains an introduction (describing problems in the study of microhistory and distinguishing groups interested in these types of considerations), the characteristics of interviews and written papers and the conclusions drawn from them. The basis for its creation was the “My Family” Project, consisting of three elements: students’ written papers, a recording of an interview with a family member (preferably a grandmother or grandfather) and a presentation at a conference. The project was carried out in the summer semester of 2022 with second-year B.A. students at the Institute of History of the Jan Kochanowski University in Kielce as part of “The historian’s research methods” classes. Students involved in this initiative also took part in a conference entitled “My Family as an Archival Source” (as part of the “Meetings with an Archival Source” series), which took place on September 28, 2022. A report on this event was written by one of the students participating in the project. The first part of the project consisted of student interviews with family members. Parents and grandparents discussed topics such as the history of their ancestors, the years of German and Soviet occupation, and everyday life. The representatives of the older generation focused on telling about their experience of World War II in small towns of today’s Świętokrzyskie province, while the students’ parents discussed the dull reality of the Polish People’s Republic. The interviews concerning the occupation period were emotional; they show the savagery of the Germans murdering Polish civilians and indicate that historians have not yet worked through this issue. Students’ papers deal with the unique history of their ancestors. The topics discussed in them mainly concern the fate of the authors’ great-grandparents and grandparents. The texts describe the realities of Kielce villages during World War II, as well as the hardships of everyday life. The overwhelming majority of the ancestors of the students participating in the project lived in the countryside, having peasant or landowning origins. The article ends with conclusions presented by students during the discussion summarizing the project. Student papers can encourage readers to research their family’s past. Every history student should know the history of their family.

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Od akwawity do Amatora – wódka w polskiej kulturze. Rekonesans badawczy

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Graf M., Cieliczko M.

Język. Religia. Tożsamość

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2016

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issue 1(13)

5-26

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The article is about vodka that is studied from a philological perspective (cultural, literary, linguistic). The methodology used in the text is a combination of the microhistory and the object-turn. Authors present important issues connected to the culture of producing and consuming this alcoholic beverage (in the past and nowadays) and the forms of its presence in polish literature (i.e. in memoirs, poetry, novels). Significant part of the article is the linguistic research: from the names of specific kinds of vodka and colloquial variants of lexeme vodka to characteristic for the latest Polish language numerous proper names.

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“One Thousand Pieces of Eyes”: A Few Notes on Antonín Salač’s 1920–1921 Trip to Greece

Poza marginesem. Pamięć i reprezentacje przeszłości w materiałach źródłowych Polskiego atlasu etnograficznego

Quo vadis antropologio historyczna? Historiografia pomiędzy kulturoznawstwem historycznym a mikrohistorią

Wspomnienia wojenne jako literatura i źródło historyczne w wybranych pamiętnikach okresu II wojny światowej

Between Culture and Nature: Some Considerations on the Life History Perspective

Mikrohistoria na obrzeżach metanarracji. List Marii Kuńskiej z Brzeska do Bolesława Bieruta w związku z akcją „Wisła”

Svobodníci a právo. Případ Pavla Sládka jinak Cíchy z roku 1663 a krajští hejtmané jako soudní instance

Rahvatraditsiooni kasutusvoimalustest talurahva ajaloo uurimisel

Tanec v literární tvorbě Boženy Němcové: fikce, nebo fakta?

Świadkowie zbrodni – druga wojna światowa w egodokumentach polskich dzieci

Putování Marty vojandy – osudy dcery pastora Modlera za třicetileté války

A dokąd teraz? Problematyka obozowa w perspektywie jugosłowiańskiej. Przypadek Elviry Kohn

A preliminary study on the Indian Grammar manuscripts of the Āmer Śāstrabhand in Jaipur

Między mikro- i makrohistorią. Losy Zofii F., mieszkanki Wysowej (pow. gorlicki) w okresie II wojny światowej

Hungarian Stories of the Regime Change: Voices and Perspectives

Les narrations micro-(h)istoriques de Claude Dunetonet de Jean Echenoz

Edukacyjna i animacyjna rola badań (mikro) historycznych

Giovanni Levis Conception of Microhistory

The fate of ancestors living in the countryside in family accounts and in-home archives. The “My Family” Project implemented in 2022 by students of the Institute of History of the Jan Kochanowski University in Kielce

Od akwawity do Amatora – wódka w polskiej kulturze. Rekonesans badawczy