Hunters, Gatherers, and Practitioners of Powerlessness: An Ethnography of the Degraded in Postsocialist Poland

Rakowski, Tomasz

ISBN 10 : 1785332406 ISBN 13 : 9781785332401

Editeur : Berghahn Books, 2016

Synopsis

The socio-economic transformations of the 1990s have forced many people in Poland into impoverishment. Hunters, Gatherers, and Practitioners of Powerlessness gives a dramatic account of life after this degradation, tracking the experiences of unemployed miners, scrap collectors, and poverty-stricken village residents. Contrary to the images of passivity, resignation, and helplessness that have become powerful tropes in Polish journalism and academic writing, Tomasz Rakowski traces the ways in which people actively reconfigure their lives. As it turns out, the initial sense of degradation and helplessness often gives way to images of resourcefulness that reveal unusual hunting-and-gathering skills.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Tomasz Rakowski is Associate Professor at the Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, University of Warsaw. He is also a medical doctor, specialist in Accident & Emergency medicine. He conducts fieldwork in Poland and Mongolia.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Berghahn Books
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1785332406
• ISBN 13: 9781785332401
• Reliure: Belle reliure
• Nombre de pages: 332
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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