This article is the result of the researches done with the first year students during their first field exercises. Their task was ‚inter alia’ – writing a field journal, which has become the record of the experience of ...

The celebration of Midsummer’s Eve is one of oldest and the most archaic celebrations characterized by unusually rich rituals, numerous beliefs, divination and magic practices. These celebrations took place during the ...

The notion of ethnic and cultural identity has modern connotations that give the problem of identity new meaning. On the one side there is consideration of human rights and acceptance of individual and collective identity. ...

In this article, I discuss defining as a cultural discursive act. From this perspective, defining, which is treated as an act of fixing or describing the meaning (often with the extension) of a given term or concept, ...

In the article author discusses problem of connection between environmental policy, social and cultural life in Poland. When talking about sustainable development, we should keep in mind not only statistic data related to ...

The text is discussing contemporary meaning of the folk culture as the notion often appearing at Polish anthropological publications and in the colloquial language. Leaving from the problem of the mythologisation of the ...

This article attempts to assess the importance of tourism as a source of dynamism of rural development processes. The first section recalls the basic concepts of rural development and explains what the “development” is. ...

The article describes ethnodesign, understood as a synonym of material creativity which draws on the models of traditional craft and folk art. The author treats ethnodesign as an idea in which we should notice a number of ...

A tentative of (re)construction of model character state of contemporary Polish rural societies is attempted on the basis of a large empirical material, especially the “Social Diagnosis 2009”. These characters are compared ...

The Jubilarian firmly believes that her hometown is Łódź, her home university is the University of Łódź, and her home research unit is the Chair of Etnography at the Łódź University. Professor Wieruszewska-Adamczyk was ...