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Hunters, gatherers, and practitioners of powerlessness : an ethnography of the degraded in postsocialist Poland /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Polaco |
| Publicado: |
New York :
Berghahn Books,
2016.
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| Colección: | European anthropology in translation ;
volume 6. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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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| Notas: | Translation of: Łowcy, zbieracze, praktycy niemocy. Gdańsk : Wydawnictwo słowo/obraz terytoria, 2009. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiii, 312 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781785332418 1785332414 |