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

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Rakowski, Tomasz

 
9781789205343: Hunters, Gatherers, and Practitioners of Powerlessness: An Ethnography of the Degraded in Postsocialist Poland
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ISBN 10 : 1789205344 ISBN 13 : 9781789205343
Editeur : Berghahn Books, 2019

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.

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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.

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Éditeur
Berghahn Books
Date d'édition
2019
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1789205344
ISBN 13 
9781789205343
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
332
Coordonnées du fabricant
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