Anna Kurpiel
University of Wroclaw, Wydział Nauk Historycznych i Pedagogicznych, Department Member
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Projekt Fundacji Ważka dofinansowano ze środków Ministra Kultury i Dziedzictwa Narodoweg
Konferencja pokazala, ze nie ma jednego dobrego, sprawdzonego modelu wspolpracy miedzy archiwami spolecznymi a panstwem, natomiast istnieje lub istnialo wiele dobrych praktyk w zakresie polityki archiwow panstwowych w stosunku do... more
Konferencja pokazala, ze nie ma jednego dobrego, sprawdzonego modelu wspolpracy miedzy archiwami spolecznymi a panstwem, natomiast istnieje lub istnialo wiele dobrych praktyk w zakresie polityki archiwow panstwowych w stosunku do podmiotow tworzących niepanstwowy zasob archiwalny, programow dotacyjnych, samoorganizowania sie czy sieciowania archiwow spolecznych, ktore to mogą stanowic dla Polski punkt odniesienia. Publikacja ukazuje sie w kluczowym dla polskiej archiwistyki spolecznej momencie dzieki zmianom prawnym w ustawie archiwalnej oraz dzialaniom Ośrodka KARTA na rzecz stabilizacji sytuacji AS-ow. Konferencja i jej efekty przyczynią sie do budowania polskiego modelu archiwistyki spolecznej. Model ten, na co wskazuje Katarzyna Zietal w tekście wstepnym, warto budowac w oparciu o program rozwoju narodowego zasobu archiwalnego, ktorego elementem bedzie dotacja dla archiwow organizacji pozarządowych oraz rejestr narodowego zasobu archiwalnego. Archiwa spoleczne w postulowanym prz...
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Projekt Fundacji Ważka dofinansowano ze środków Ministra Kultury i Dziedzictwa Narodoweg
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Artykuł omawia formy prezentacji przedwojennego dziedzictwa niemieckiego w wybranych muzeach Wrocławia i Szczecina: Centrum Historii Zajezdni we Wrocławiu, Muzeum Miejskim Wrocławia, Muzeum Narodowe w Szczecinie — Centrum Dialogu Przełomy... more
Artykuł omawia formy prezentacji przedwojennego dziedzictwa niemieckiego w wybranych muzeach Wrocławia i Szczecina: Centrum Historii Zajezdni we Wrocławiu, Muzeum Miejskim Wrocławia, Muzeum Narodowe w Szczecinie — Centrum Dialogu Przełomy oraz Muzeum Historii Szczecina. Autorzy analizują wyłaniające się z wystaw wizje wspólnoty i relacji polsko-niemieckich. Zwrócono również uwagę na reakcje afektywne, jakie wywołują tworzone narracje oraz wybrane środki wyrazu – przedmioty/rekwizyty – które są wykorzystywane do konstruowania wystaw. Wreszcie autorzy proponują koncepcje adopcji i absorpcji i stosują je do definiowania formuł reprezentacji dziedzictwa.
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Recenzja ksiązki: Aleksandra Paprot-Wielopolska, Żulawy i Powiśle: kreowanie tozsamości lokalnych i regionalnych po 1989 roku , Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Scholar, 2018, ss. 288, ISBN 9788373839687.
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The following article constitutes just another voice in a discussion on the social and cultural dimensions of remembrance and different relationships between different kinds of remembering and commemorating and biographical narration. On... more
The following article constitutes just another voice in a discussion on the social and cultural dimensions of remembrance and different relationships between different kinds of remembering and commemorating and biographical narration. On the basis of the subject literature and empirical materials, i.e. accounts of Macedonian refugees and re-emigrants from France who came to Lower Silesia after the Second World War, the author analyzes three levels of memory. They are the following: autobiographical memory seen from the angle of experience and narration, collective memory of a generation together with the concept of collective identity and the policy towards memory revealed mostly in different practices of commemorating.
Władysław Ząbek was born and raised in France, in Pas-de-Calais department, as a child of Polish emigrants who had come to France looking for work. After the Second World War he returned to Wałbrzych in Poland together with his parents,... more
Władysław Ząbek was born and raised in France, in Pas-de-Calais department, as a child of Polish emigrants who had come to France looking for work. After the Second World War he returned to Wałbrzych in Poland together with his parents, where he still lives. Władysław Ząbek describes mostly his daily life in a mining town in the north of France, dominated by Polish immigrants, he speaks about a Polish school, friendly relationships and the lifestyle of Poles in France. A significant part of the account is dedicated to the years of war and Nazi occupation of France. The next stage of Władysław Ząbek’s life was his return to Poland, to post-war Lower Silesia, which at that time was a national and religious melting-pot. The account shows the difficult beginnings of life in the unknown homeland, issues of Wałbrzych’s reconstruction after the war, the housing situation but also about the habits of re-emigrants from France, who constituted a distinct group in the post-war Wałbrzych and th...
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From 1948 till early 1950s, the Polish People's Republic accepted around 15 thousand refugees of the Greek Civil War. The refugees connected with the defeated side of the Greek Communist Army constituted a heterogeneous group of Greeks,... more
From 1948 till early 1950s, the Polish People's Republic accepted around 15 thousand refugees of the Greek Civil War. The refugees connected with the defeated side of the Greek Communist Army constituted a heterogeneous group of Greeks, Macedonians, and Aromanians, including both adults and children. Poland, like many other Eastern European countries, sheltered them as part of the solidarity within communist parties. However, till 1956 the anti-Yugoslavian discourse affected the fate of refugees in Poland making the refugees of Greek origin a favored group and treating those of Macedonian origin as Tito collaborators. The paper aims to present the Macedonian schooling system organized in Poland for the refugees together with an unknown case of the Macedonian textbooks for school children prepared and printed in Poland. The analysis of the textbooks is situated in the broader framework of the international policy of the Eastern Block and Yugoslavia, Polish-Macedonian relations in the 20th century as well as the sociology and history of knowledge.
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The article focuses on the phenomenon of pottery produced in Bolesławiec, a town that underwent a shift in state affiliation: after World War II the formally German town became Polish. Nowadays, Polish Bolesławiec ceramics is widely... more
The article focuses on the phenomenon of pottery produced in Bolesławiec, a town that underwent a shift in state affiliation: after World War II the formally German town became Polish. Nowadays, Polish Bolesławiec ceramics is widely recognised as a trademark, part of the Polish heritage and a national symbol. The article was initiated by a simple question: how is it possible, considering that only a couple dozen years before, Bolesławiec pottery was in fact Bunzlau pottery, made by German craftsmen for hundreds of years? The authors analyse the process of creating heritage by reconstructing the biography of the ceramics and emphasising two coexistent forces that influenced the course of cultural production: political ideology and neoliberal mechanisms. Finally, they propose two terms: 'multi-heirs heritage' and 'economics of (non)memory' that enable them to grasp the complexity of the actors (people and institutions), attitudes and strategies that affected the researched case.
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Wangel Durlow is one of 7.5 thousand Aegean Macedonians that came to Poland as a result of the Greek civil war. In his narration he mostly recounts events related to the war and mandatory resettlement from his hometown in Northern Greece... more
Wangel Durlow is one of 7.5 thousand Aegean Macedonians that came to Poland as a result of the Greek civil war. In his narration he mostly recounts events related to the war and mandatory resettlement from his hometown in Northern Greece seen from the child’s perspective – Mr. Durlow was 12 when he left Greece. His account provides us with information on daily life and customs of the Macedonians living in Greece, difficult beginning of his stay in Poland resulting from cultural and civilization differences between Poland and Greece as well as education and upbringing of Greek children in Poland. Despite pleas of his parents, who settled in Yugoslavia after the Greek civil war, he has not decided to leave Poland where he graduated from school and married a Polish woman. There is a long description of the first meeting with his parents which took place only after 16 years of separation. The account of travels to Yugoslavia again emphasizes cultural differences between Poland Macedon...
This article analyses the phenomenon of stenciled ceramics from Bolesławiec, a city in Lower Silesia, which was annexed to Poland after the Second World War. On the basis of theories from the field of cultural heritage, memory stud- ies,... more
This article analyses the phenomenon of stenciled ceramics from Bolesławiec, a city in Lower Silesia, which was annexed to Poland after the Second World War. On the basis of theories from the field of cultural heritage, memory stud- ies, and economics, the authors trace the discrepancy between the modern view of these ceramics and their social and historical biography. As a result, they pro- pose the use of two new terms, “multi-hairs heritage” and the “economy of (non)memory,” which would help people to understand this multidimensional phenomenon and would encompass the appropriation of cultural heritage, the ne- gotiation of its meanings, and the role of cultural heritage in a neoliberal economy.
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The village was and is seen as a bastion of tradition (traditional family model, annual rituals, folklore) placed in opposition to the town as being conservative and unchanging, closer to nature, and “authentic”. The Lower Silesian... more
The village was and is seen as a bastion of tradition (traditional family model, annual rituals, folklore) placed in opposition to the town as being conservative and unchanging, closer to nature, and “authentic”. The Lower Silesian village, however, does not conform to this assumption. Postwar migrations led to the creation of a gap, contradicting the classical definition of tradition, for which the basic determinants are continuity and duration. In the article, I look at those activities serving the transmission, creation and recreation of tradition in the villages of Lower Silesia, both during the period of the Polish People’s Republic and nowadays. I have made use of empirical resources from research into artists and folk groups as well as harvest festivals conducted in Lower Silesia since 2012 by the Dragonfly Foundation. Analysis of the material has allowed me to draw two conclusions: 1) all the traditions currently practised in Lower Silesia are a kind of creation – but, using Jerzy Szacki’s nomenclature, they are still
“authentic”; and 2) a large role in the search for one’s own traditions is played by a sense of “rurality”, which serves as a framework for identity and that which comes from this: cultural heritage and traditions in Lower Silesian villages.
“authentic”; and 2) a large role in the search for one’s own traditions is played by a sense of “rurality”, which serves as a framework for identity and that which comes from this: cultural heritage and traditions in Lower Silesian villages.
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Artykuł analizuje debatę, która toczyła się w macedońskim parlamencie w grudniu 2018 w związku z wprowadzeniem poprawek do konstytucji-w tym zmiany nazwy kraju na "Republika Północnej Macedonii"-pomiędzy dwoma głównymi aktorami... more
Artykuł analizuje debatę, która toczyła się w macedońskim parlamencie w grudniu 2018 w związku z wprowadzeniem poprawek do konstytucji-w tym zmiany nazwy kraju na "Republika Północnej Macedonii"-pomiędzy dwoma głównymi aktorami politycznymi: prawicową partią VMRO-DPMNE oraz socjaldemokracją z premierem Zoranem Zaevem na czele. Ramy teoretyczne analizy wytyczają kulturowa koncepcja narodu Anthony'ego D. Smitha oraz pojęcie mitomotoryki zaproponowa-ne przez Jana Assmanna. Koncentrując się przede wszystkim na budowanej przez partię prawicową emocjonalnej narracji, autorka analizuje koncepcję narodu jako historycznego i niezmiennego, wytyczonego grobami poprzednich pokoleń oraz świętego, a także wiarę w sprawczą moc słowa oraz rolę samookreślenia w budowaniu tożsamości narodowej. Analiza obejmuje kontekst historyczny powstania Macedonii, a także jej charakter jako państwa wielonarodowego i wieloetnicznego.
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Streszczenie: Artykuł jest propozycją nowego spojrzenia na wielowątkowe, wielonarodowe i wie-loetniczne dziedzictwo kulturowe współczesnego Dolnego Śląska. Bazując na wieloletnich bada-niach terenowych oraz wcześniejszych koncepcjach... more
Streszczenie: Artykuł jest propozycją nowego spojrzenia na wielowątkowe, wielonarodowe i wie-loetniczne dziedzictwo kulturowe współczesnego Dolnego Śląska. Bazując na wieloletnich bada-niach terenowych oraz wcześniejszych koncepcjach teoretycznych, autorka proponuje koncepcję "translokalności" zaczerpniętą z obszaru badań nad migracjami oraz studiów nad globalizacją. Koncepcja jest spójna z charakterem Dolnego Śląska jako regionu postmigracyjnego, uwypukla dialektykę mobilności z lokalnością, a także pozwala opisać praktyki przekraczające granice czasu i przestrzeni, a służące afirmacji lokalnej tradycji i tożsamości. Słowa klucze: dziedzictwo kulturowe, Dolny Śląsk, lokalność, translokalność, trudne dziedzic-two, postkonfliktowe dziedzictwo Summary: The article aims to propose a new look on the multithreaded, multinational and multi-ethnic cultural heritage of the present-day Lower Silesia. Based on the her own field research as well as previous theoretical frameworks, the author proposes a concept of "translocality" taken from the field of migration and global studies. The idea is consistent with the character of Lower Silesia as a post-migration region, and it emphasizes the dialectics of mobility with locality. In addition , it allows to describe practices exceeding the boundaries of time and space, that aims to affirm the local tradition and identity.
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The subject of this article is a group of returnees from France, who settled in Lower Silesia between 1946 and 1948. On the basis of my research – the biographical interviews I conducted with the returnees living in the area of Wałbrzych,... more
The subject of this article is a group of returnees from France, who settled in Lower Silesia between 1946 and 1948. On the basis of my research – the biographical interviews I conducted with the returnees living in the area of Wałbrzych, Kowary and Bolkow – I discuss the first years of their lives in Poland. These years were characterised, as determined by me, by maintaining a common “French experience structure”, which consisted of elements of everyday life these people knew from France: dishes, beverages, their speech and outfits, coffee meetings. Based on my research, I claim that for the returnees the common experience structure became a way of combating the not always favourable new reality in the post-war Poland as well as a field of individual and collective identification.
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Traditional Lower Silesian cuisine? Searching for the culinary identity of the region after 1989 In Poland, for several years, one can observe the turn towards locality and regionalism connected with searching, perceiving and affirming... more
Traditional Lower Silesian cuisine? Searching for the culinary identity
of the region after 1989
In Poland, for several years, one can observe the turn towards locality and regionalism connected with searching, perceiving and affirming the local cultural heritage. One of its elements is traditional cuisine, which – at the same time – is often used in region-branding. Lower Silesia is subjected to similar tendencies, however, as one of the regions given to Poland after World War II, it does not have a clear local heritage pattern, but it constantly oscillates between defining and creating its own regional tradition(s). The article analyses various strategies of searching for the culinary identity of the region, as well as its definition based on the palimpsestic “long-term multiculturalism” or “personal multiculturalism”.
of the region after 1989
In Poland, for several years, one can observe the turn towards locality and regionalism connected with searching, perceiving and affirming the local cultural heritage. One of its elements is traditional cuisine, which – at the same time – is often used in region-branding. Lower Silesia is subjected to similar tendencies, however, as one of the regions given to Poland after World War II, it does not have a clear local heritage pattern, but it constantly oscillates between defining and creating its own regional tradition(s). The article analyses various strategies of searching for the culinary identity of the region, as well as its definition based on the palimpsestic “long-term multiculturalism” or “personal multiculturalism”.
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Tekst dotyczy dwóch niezależnych teatrów działających w Michałowicach koło Jeleniej Góry: Teatru Naszego i Teatru Cinema.
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Rozdział dotyczy dolnosląskich prywatnych instytucji kultury (PIK),a przede wszystkim ich roli w procesie budowania dolnośląskich lokalności.
During the few weeks I spent in Kalisz in 2015, a middle-sized city situated in the center of Poland I realized that a triangle composed of music classes, a Catholic private school—but no religious weddings—constituted the base of the... more
During the few weeks I spent in Kalisz in 2015, a middle-sized city situated in the center of Poland I realized that a triangle composed of music classes, a Catholic private school—but no religious weddings—constituted the base of the group that I came to call the new “Kalisz bourgeoisie.” Taken together they point to a special attitude characteristic of a “web” or “network” of “bourgeois” institutions in Kalisz.
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Terminy " archiwistyka społeczna " i " archiwa społeczne " jeszcze do niedawna były nieobecne w polskim dyskursie publicznym i naukowym, choć samo zjawisko funkcjonuje od dziesiątek, a nawet setek lat, gdyż dotyczy potrzeby gromadzenia,... more
Terminy " archiwistyka społeczna " i " archiwa społeczne " jeszcze do niedawna były nieobecne w polskim dyskursie publicznym i naukowym, choć samo zjawisko funkcjonuje od dziesiątek, a nawet setek lat, gdyż dotyczy potrzeby gromadzenia, porządkowania i upowszechniania wybranych fragmentów przeszłości. Oba terminy zostały wprowadzone i rozpowszechnione przez warszawski Ośrodek KARTA, który w 2012 r. wydał podręcznik do archiwistyki społecznej i rozpoczął szereg działań pomagających archiwistom-amatorom w porządkowaniu, ewidencji i promocji swoich zbiorów.[1] Podobnie jak public history, koncepcja archiwistyki społecznej szybko zyskała zwolenników, choć daleko jej jeszcze do najbardziej popularnej w Polsce historii mówionej.[2]
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Wszystkie cztery województwa objęte badaniami w ramach projektu są regionami administracyjnymi. Niemniej jednak wyraźnie różnią się one od siebie pod względem historyczno-kulturowym. Między dolnośląskim z lubuskim a łódzkim z... more
Wszystkie cztery województwa objęte badaniami w ramach projektu są regionami administracyjnymi. Niemniej jednak wyraźnie różnią się one od siebie pod względem historyczno-kulturowym. Między dolnośląskim z lubuskim a łódzkim z kujawsko-pomorskim przebiega swoista granica. Choć etniczna struktura wszystkich objętych badaniami regionów była na przestrzeni dziejów skomplikowana i niejednolita, tereny dzisiejszych województw łódzkiego i ku-jawsko-pomorskiego od stuleci (z przerwą w czasie zaborów) leżały w granicach Rzeczypospolitej. Od niemal 200 lat etnografowie wyodrębniali na tych terenach regiony lub grupy etnograficzne określając je jako polskie i wskazując – za po-mocą rozmaitych kryteriów – ich specyficzne cechy 1. Przystępując do badań można było zakładać, że uda się nawiązać kontakt z członkami zespołów, którzy mają świadomość długiego trwania na tych terenach ludzi (w znaczeniu genealo-gicznym) i treści folkloru przekazywanych w muzyce, mowie, strojach i że bę-dzie to stanowiło dodatkowy budulec znaczeń dla uprawianej działalności. Pro-wadzone w ramach projektu badania miały także wykazać czy i w jakim stopniu siatka podziałów na regiony i subregiony etnograficzne funkcjonuje nadal w świadomości członków zespołów, których aktywność związana jest wszak z dziedzictwem kultury ludowej na tych terenach. Z drugiej strony chodziło o to, aby wykazać jakie figury myślenia o regionie pojawiają się w narracjach człon-ków zespołów ludowych na terenach zamieszkałych przed 1945 rokiem głównie przez ludność niemiecką. Ramy teoretyczne prezentowanych tu rozważań wyznaczają definicje ujmu-jące regionalizm w dwojaki sposób: 1) jako postawa jednostki wobec regionu oraz 2) jako stan świadomości społecznej jego mieszkańców 2 .
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Pionierska monografia podejmująca w sposób całościowy zagadnienie macedońskich uchodźców wojennych na Dolnym Śląsku. Praca ma charakter interdyscyplinarny, opracowana została na styku nauk historycznych, antropologii kultury i socjologii.... more
Pionierska monografia podejmująca w sposób całościowy zagadnienie macedońskich uchodźców wojennych na Dolnym Śląsku. Praca ma charakter interdyscyplinarny, opracowana została na styku nauk historycznych, antropologii kultury i socjologii. Oparta została na archiwaliach krajowych i zagranicznych. Myślą przewodnią monografii jest ukazanie uchodźców wojennych z Grecji, Macedończyków, ze szczególnym uwzględnieniem różnych aspektów, jak rozróżnienia narodowego, specyfiki organizowania się macedońskich uchodźców, ich adaptacji i integracji. Ważną częścią rozważań autorskich jest polityka pamięci, która jest związana z wojną i wychodźstwem.
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In Poland, the concept of history in the public space is still fairly new and obscure. Although its subdisciplines such as community archives or oral history already enjoy recognition in the scientific and social discourse and are... more
In Poland, the concept of history in the public space is still fairly new and obscure. Although its subdisciplines such as community archives or oral history already enjoy recognition in the scientific and social discourse and are promoted by the activities of various associations, centres and organizations, a deeper reflection on the nature, dimensions, and possibilities of public history still has not been present in Poland.
Interestingly, unlike American studies for example, public (and oral) history, in both its theoretical and practical aspects, is regarded as a matter of interest to anthropologists,
sociologists and cultural researchers rather than historians. The aim of my presentation will be a brief overview of the activities and debates related to public history in Poland as well as a reflection - based on my own research experience - on the need of small communities (villages and minority groups) to preserve their own local history which would mobilize members of the group as well as build their common identity.
Interestingly, unlike American studies for example, public (and oral) history, in both its theoretical and practical aspects, is regarded as a matter of interest to anthropologists,
sociologists and cultural researchers rather than historians. The aim of my presentation will be a brief overview of the activities and debates related to public history in Poland as well as a reflection - based on my own research experience - on the need of small communities (villages and minority groups) to preserve their own local history which would mobilize members of the group as well as build their common identity.
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"The articles that make up this volume are related to the multidimensional aspects of the narrative- biographical research. Individual authors, positioning themselves between their source areas of knowledge (pedagogy, psychology,... more
"The articles that make up this volume are related to the multidimensional aspects of the narrative- biographical research. Individual authors, positioning themselves between their source areas of knowledge (pedagogy, psychology, anthropology, sociology and literary studies) and a transdisciplinary auto/biographical research plane, pick up as their starting point the processual perspective of the socio-cultural world, whose central element is the active subject as the creator of his/her own biography. Such assumptions (expressed explicitly and implicitly) have provided the basis for reports on the Authors' own research projects and a framework for ordering the purely theoretical aspects of narrative-biographical studies" http://cup.columbia.edu/book/autobiography-biography-narration/9788323336976
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Władysław Ząbek was born and raised in France, in Pas-de-Calais department, as a child of Polish emigrants who had come to France looking for work. After the Second World War he returned to Wałbrzych in Poland together with his parents,... more
Władysław Ząbek was born and raised in France, in Pas-de-Calais department, as a child of Polish emigrants who had come to France looking for work. After the Second World War he returned to Wałbrzych in Poland together with his parents, where he still lives. Władysław Ząbek describes mostly his daily life in a mining town in the north of France, dominated by Polish immigrants, he speaks about a Polish school, friendly relationships and the lifestyle of Poles in France. A significant part of the account is dedicated to the years of war and Nazi occupation of France. The next stage of Władysław Ząbek’s life was his return to Poland, to post-war Lower Silesia, which at that time was a national and religious melting-pot. The account shows the difficult beginnings of life in the unknown homeland, issues of Wałbrzych’s reconstruction after the war, the housing situation but also about the habits of re-emigrants from France, who constituted a distinct group in the post-war Wałbrzych and the region. Another important fact in Ząbek’s account is the time of studies in Donieck in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic which he started following the advice of the headmaster of his secondary school. During his studies, Władysław participated in the Fifth World Festival of Youth and Students in Warsaw (1955) as a French interpreter. It was one of many significant events connected with his contact with France and the French language after his return to Poland proving that the childhood and teenage years spent in France had an impact on his life.
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The following article constitutes just another voice in a discussion on the social and cultural dimensions of remembrance and different relationships between different kinds of remembering and commemorating and biographical narration. On... more
The following article constitutes just another voice in a discussion on the social and cultural dimensions of remembrance and different relationships between different kinds of remembering and commemorating and biographical narration. On the basis of the subject literature and empirical materials, i.e. accounts of Macedonian refugees and re-emigrants from France who came to Lower Silesia after the Second World War, the author analyzes three levels of memory. They are the following: autobiographical memory seen from the angle of experience and narration, collective memory of a generation together with the concept of collective identity and the policy towards memory revealed mostly in different practices of commemorating
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The article focuses on the material culture of regions that underwent a shift in statehood when, post-World War II, formally German territories became Polish. It seeks to analyse how the heritage of post-conflict territories was... more
The article focuses on the material culture of regions that underwent a shift in statehood when, post-World War II, formally German territories became Polish. It seeks to analyse how the heritage of post-conflict territories was integrated into everyday life and, in some instances, affirmed and appreciated by second and third-generation settlers. Through research conducted amongst contemporary city-dwellers, the authors scrutinise the relationships between people and pre-war German objects, identifying a form of relation referred to as ‘kinship’. By exploring the mechanisms through which objects are incorporated into individual and/or group history, they elaborate on the concept of ‘adopted heritage’, as demonstrated in various field research cases. This concept is derived from the idea of affinity and its application to material culture studies, and enhanced by theories that emphasise the role of emotions in heritage.
