Hunters, gatherers, and practitioners of powerlessness
| Titel: | Hunters, gatherers, and practitioners of powerlessness : an ethnography of the degraded in postsocialist Poland / Tomasz Rakowski ; translated by Søren Gauger |
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| Veröffentlicht: | New York, NY; Oxford : Berghahn, 2016 |
| Umfang: | xiii, 312 Seiten : Illustrationen |
| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Schriftenreihe/ mehrbändiges Werk: |
European anthropology in translation ; Volume 6 |
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| ISBN: | 9781785332401 |
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Inhaltsverzeichnis
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X
- Foreword
- p. viii
- Acknowledgments
- p. xii
- Preface
- p. xiv
- Introduction: The Anthropologist as a Poverty Inspector
- p. 1
- An Anthropological Shift in Perspective
- p. 1
- The "Culture of Poverty": Getting Beyond the Concept
- p. 1
- Social Trauma and Dependency: Shift in Perspective
- p. 4
- Hermeneutics and Anthropology
- p. 7
- Toward a Method
- p. 11
- Maurice Merleau-Ponty-The "Patron Saint" of the Present Ethnography
- p. 11
- Method: (Lack of) Ethnographic Knowledge
- p. 18
- Pretextual Ethnography
- p. 21
- The Most Bitter Side of the Polish Transformation: Fields of Research
- p. 27
- The "New Poverty"
- p. 27
- Post-Transformation Social Degradation
- p. 30
- Postsocialism: History and Experience
- p. 33
- The Studied Phenomena
- p. 36
- The Field Research
- p. 38
- Chapter 1
- The Szydlowiec and Przysucha Environs-The Swierokrzyskie Foothills
- p. 42
- A World Full of Adversities
- p. 42
- Unemployment and the Farming Recession
- p. 42
- A Community of the Unemployed: Immobility, Odd Jobs, and "Tragic Scarring"
- p. 47
- Motionless Orchards, Motionless Fields: Failure
- p. 52
- Dependency and Irreversibility: A Reproof at the World
- p. 56
- Second-String Ecology
- p. 63
- The New Face of the Jobless Village
- p. 67
- Gatherers of Wild Herbs and Undergrowth, Gatherers of Fir Wood
- p. 67
- The "New Ecology": The Convertibility of the Environment
- p. 70
- Collection, Conversion, Transition
- p. 77
- The "Culture of Survival"
- p. 83
- Chapter 2
- Walbrzych-Boguszów-Gorce
- p. 87
- From Destruction to "Empty" Communication: The Liquidation of the Coal Basin
- p. 87
- The City and the Mine
- p. 87
- The Highly Ambivalent Story of the Walbrzych Basin
- p. 92
- Experience and Liquidation: Destruction-The City-The Body
- p. 97
- How to Speak of Liquidation? (Auto)aggression-Dialogue-Social Muteness
- p. 102
- Externalized Shame: Empty Communication and Internal Spectacles
- p. 105
- Facing Reality after the Mines (1)
- p. 109
- Complaints-Accusations-Triumphs
- p. 113
- A World Affected from the Outside
- p. 116
- Bootleg Mines, Diggers, Skills: The Body's Active Knowledge
- p. 116
- Rhythm, Jokes, Anecdotes: "Scoffing at the World"
- p. 122
- Law and Lawlessness: Interior Spectacles
- p. 125
- The Grey Market: Deal-Making and Resourcefulness
- p. 130
- The "Internal Circulation" and the Fragmentation of Transactions
- p. 137
- Home-Oikos: Internal Circulation
- p. 142
- Freedom in the Mines
- p. 145
- "Do-It-Yourself" Equipment
- p. 145
- Working and Efficiency in Manual Labor: Resources and Deposits
- p. 149
- Demolition-Collecting-Objects
- p. 153
- Things
- p. 159
- Memory
- p. 163
- Facing Reality after the Mines (2)
- p. 166
- Chapter 3
- The Belchatów Brown Coal Mine-The Shadowlands of the Exposed Mine
- p. 178
- The Mine/Power Station
- p. 178
- The Perfect Balance, an Abrupt Modernization
- p. 178
- The Experience of Alienation and Control over the Environment
- p. 181
- At the Margins of the Great Industry: Marginalization and Exclusion
- p. 185
- The Mine: Orbis Exterior
- p. 190
- Violence, Guilt, and the Building Sacrifice
- p. 196
- The Consequences of "Excess": Metaphors of Exploitation
- p. 200
- The Mine: Orbis Interior
- p. 203
- The Players, Their Families, and Their Means of Sustenance
- p. 203
- Self-Sufficiency, Subsistence: Gathering and Processing Goods
- p. 206
- Hunting and Gathering
- p. 211
- Waclaw Okonski-The Stalker, Orbis Interior
- p. 221
- Goods and Trophies: The Hunting/Gathering Existence on the Edge of the Mine
- p. 226
- Records
- p. 231
- Cabinets of Curiosities, Collectors' Museums
- p. 231
- The Work of Memory: Reconstructions, Objects, Collections
- p. 237
- "The Science of the Concrete": Inscriptions, Journals, Enumeration
- p. 243
- Hunters and Gatherers-Practitioners of Powerlessness
- p. 250
- Conclusion
- p. 260
- The "Reality Testing"
- p. 260
- Outcome
- p. 264
- Beyond Anthropology
- p. 266
- Appendix
- p. 270
- Bibliography
- p. 278
- Index
- p. 303
