Title:

Post-Socialist or Post-Peasant? Reflections on Mountain-Dwellers’ Image of the State and the Authorities

Subtitle:

Ethnologia Polona 31-32 (2010-2011)

Creator:

Malewska-Szałygin, Anna

Publisher:

Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology Polish Academy of Sciences

Place of publishing:

Warszwa

Date issued/created:

2010-2011

Description:

24 cm

Type of object:

Journal/Article

Subject and Keywords:

peasants (farmers) ; image (stereotypes) ; authorities ; state ; employment

Abstract:

The text offers a summary of a research project on “Perceptions of Power, State and Democracy in Rural Areas”, based on ethnographic fieldwork carried out in villages in Nowy Targ county in 2000–2005. A knowledge of traditional peasant culture proved to be essential to a thorough interpretation of discussions carried out in the field. The results of this research challenge the idea that the images re-constructed during these discussions are the heritage of socialism and are post-socialist in nature. The contemporary rural image of power and the state were neither constructed or disseminated in the area of socialism, and therefore the term “post-peasant perception” seems more adequate

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Relation:

Ethnologia Polona

Volume:

31-32

Start page:

73

End page:

83

Resource type:

Text

Detailed Resource Type:

Article

Format:

application/pdf

Resource Identifier:

0137-4079

Source:

IAiE PAN, call no. P 366 ; IAiE PAN, call no. P 367 ; IAiE PAN, call no. P 368 ; click here to follow the link

Language:

eng

Digitizing institution:

Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences

Original in:

Library of the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences

Access:

Open