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Overheating: An Anthropology of Accelerated Change
Author: Barbara Jutrzenka-Trzebiatowska W eseju opartym na tekście Thomasa Ericsena “Overheating: An Anthropology of Accelerated Change”, chciałabym przyjrzeć się istotnym ideom przedstawionym przez autora i zbadać ich konsekwencje dla naszego rozumienia przyspieszonej zmiany społecznej. Ericsen ukazuje, że współczesne społeczeństwa znajdują się w stanie przegrzewania, w którym tempo zmiany i rozwój przekracza zdolność ludzi i środowiska…
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Mobilizing in transnational space: a social movement approach to the formation of diaspora
By Marta Makuchowska If you ever study social or cultural sciences, there is a lot of chance that you notice one popular word: diaspora. But what diaspora means precisely and what is the analytical power of this concept? Thanks to Martin Sökefeld and his paper “Mobilizing in transnational space: a social movement approach to the…
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Ethnographies of nationhood: Mohawk Interruptus
By Marta Makuchowska We keep hearing about new tragic events and crimes committed by the colonialists against Native Americans. People whose ancestors committed these acts (or people who still do) try to look at the story from the other side and say yes it was tragic, but the indigenous people also received some valuable gifts…
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Rethinking masculinity. Anthropology of food, gender, and relations in Nefissa Naguib’s book Nurturing Masculinities
By Virginia Macholl I decided to write about Nefissa Naguib’s book Nurturing Masculinities[1] because of my academic interests in gender studies/gender roles and, on the contrary, because I do not often read about anthropology of food. The reason was also that the author has put together issues like masculinity and food, and I used to…
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Women, “halfies” and positionality. Lila Abu-Lughod on cultural inequalities and aspects of self-identification and relations in ethnology
Author: Virginia Macholl When I decided to write about Lila Abu-Lughod’s text, Writing against Culture, the main reason that made my mind was that it is a text about minorities. And the minorities are women and so-called “halfies”—with “halfies” being a term used in reference to people “[…] whose national or cultural identity is mixed…
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Time and the Other
by Barbara Jutrzenka-Trzebiatowska Rozprawa Johanness’a Fabiana, Time and the other: How anthropology makes its object., wchodzi w skomplikowany związek między czasem a reprezentacją “inności”. W tym eseju będę opisywała główne idee przedstawione przez Fabiana i omówię ich implikacje dla naszego rozumienia czasu, kultury i konstrukcji “innego”. Fabian twierdzi, że zachodnia nowoczesność rozwinęła ramy czasowe, które…
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