Between Tradition and Postmodernity

Spis treści: Introduction Zofia Sokolewicz I. What Has Happened to Culture? Magdalena Zowczak The Apocryphal Text as a Trial of Faith Andrzej Perzanowski Oddity as Challenge Anna Malewska-Szałygin Ethnopolitology — Talking with Highlanders about Politics Grażyna Ewa Karpińska Place and Space in the Postmodern City: The View of an Anthropologist on Tenement Houses Monika Baer In Search of Identity? Reflections on the Category of `Women` in Transitional Poland Agnieszka Kościańska The Shakti Power. The Brahma Kumaris Worid Spirituał University: an Idea of Female Leadership Wojciech Burszta Globalisation from the Perspective of the Anthropology of Culture. On the Circulation of Symbolic Transmissions II. Inventing Traditions Michał Buchowski `The Other` in Orientalizing and Liberał Discourses Jarosław Derlicki The New People. The Yukaghir in the Process of Transformation Wojciech Lipiński From Autostereotype to Megalomania. Cultural Changes among the Smali Peoples of the North in Yakutia Lech Mróz, Jerzy S. Wasilewski Regressing to Naturę, Reviving Tradition, Building Ethnicity. A Case of the Reindeer-breeders of the Mongolian Taiga Łukasz Smyrski Hoły Fires, Oaks and Stones — Is the Old Faith Returning to Lithuania? Katarzyna Waszczyńska The Eastern Orthodox Faith, Catholicism, and the Uniate Faith — Selected Aspects of Religion in the Republic of Belarus Kamila Dąbrowska The `Chosen` Nation: Rebuilding the Jewish Community in Poland. On the Basis of the Youngest Generation of Polish Jews Róża Godula A Renewal of Christian Origins in Central Europę. St Vojtech-Adalbert`s Patronage III. Reports on Conducted Research Wojciech Olszewski Around the Theory and Politics of Cultural Identity. The Ethnologisfs Diiemma at the Beginning of the 21 Century Halina Rusek The Polish-Czech Borderland in the Process of Transformation: a Research Report Jerzy Szałygin The Cultural Landscape of the `Dutch` Villages as an Example of Man`s Coexistence with Nature Marzena Godzińska The Felt-Makers` Workshop between High Politics and Great Religion IV. Etnography in Poland. Teaching and Institutions Zbigniew Jasiewicz, Aleksander Posern-Zieliński Ethnology Studies at Polish Universities after 1989. Notes on Contibutors Notes on Institutes