Author: Anna Sznajder
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1498584322
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 335
Book Description
AnnaSznajder centers this ethnography of gendered creative practice in the lace-making community of Bobowa, Poland. Grounded in rural gender studies and feminist epistemology, Polish Lace Makers: Gender, Heritage, and Identity is a pivotal historical and modern account of the social and economic behaviors of entrepreneurial craftswomen tasked with preserving the originality and symbolic value of lace. Sznajder traces the evolving work strategies and occupational identities of this community from the early 19th nineteenth century up to the modern day, outlining the challenges of World War II, communist rule, and socialist Poland. The case studies included in this account are emulative of the larger struggle of female entrepreneurs to self-manage, innovate, create, and provide for themselves and their families. This book is recommended for scholars of anthropology, sociology, gender studies, and European studies.
Polish Lace Makers
Author: Anna Sznajder
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1498584322
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 335
Book Description
AnnaSznajder centers this ethnography of gendered creative practice in the lace-making community of Bobowa, Poland. Grounded in rural gender studies and feminist epistemology, Polish Lace Makers: Gender, Heritage, and Identity is a pivotal historical and modern account of the social and economic behaviors of entrepreneurial craftswomen tasked with preserving the originality and symbolic value of lace. Sznajder traces the evolving work strategies and occupational identities of this community from the early 19th nineteenth century up to the modern day, outlining the challenges of World War II, communist rule, and socialist Poland. The case studies included in this account are emulative of the larger struggle of female entrepreneurs to self-manage, innovate, create, and provide for themselves and their families. This book is recommended for scholars of anthropology, sociology, gender studies, and European studies.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1498584322
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 335
Book Description
AnnaSznajder centers this ethnography of gendered creative practice in the lace-making community of Bobowa, Poland. Grounded in rural gender studies and feminist epistemology, Polish Lace Makers: Gender, Heritage, and Identity is a pivotal historical and modern account of the social and economic behaviors of entrepreneurial craftswomen tasked with preserving the originality and symbolic value of lace. Sznajder traces the evolving work strategies and occupational identities of this community from the early 19th nineteenth century up to the modern day, outlining the challenges of World War II, communist rule, and socialist Poland. The case studies included in this account are emulative of the larger struggle of female entrepreneurs to self-manage, innovate, create, and provide for themselves and their families. This book is recommended for scholars of anthropology, sociology, gender studies, and European studies.
Enduring Socialism
Author: Harry G. West
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 9781845454647
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Against the historical backdrop of successive socialist and post-socialist claims to have completely remade society, the contributors to this volume explore the complex and often paradoxical continuities between diverse post-socialist presents and their corresponding socialist and pre-socialist pasts. The chapters focus on ways in which: pre-socialist economic, political, and cultural forms in fact endured an era of socialism and have found new life in the post-socialist present, notwithstanding revolutionary socialist claims; continuities with a pre-socialist past have been produced within the historical imaginary of post-socialism; and socialist economic, political, and cultural forms have in fact endured in a purportedly post-socialist era, despite the claims of neo-liberal reformers. Harry West is a lecturer in Social Anthropology at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS). His has conducted research in the northern district of Mueda in Mozambique, where nationalist guerrillas based themselves during the anti-colonial war (1964-1974). As part of his project, he has studied how various social groups experienced, and coped with, violence during and after the war for independence. He has also taken interest in how colonialism and revolutionary socialism reconfigured the institutions of local authority, and, more recently, how post-socialist reforms have fostered a "revival of tradition" in rural Mozambique. Parvathi Raman is a lecturer in Social Anthropology in the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS). She has conducted research in South Africa on the role of Indians in the South African Communist Party and has written about the changing character of the socialist imagination in the twentieth century. She also works on the politics of diaspora, and multiculturalism and the neo-liberal state.
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 9781845454647
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Against the historical backdrop of successive socialist and post-socialist claims to have completely remade society, the contributors to this volume explore the complex and often paradoxical continuities between diverse post-socialist presents and their corresponding socialist and pre-socialist pasts. The chapters focus on ways in which: pre-socialist economic, political, and cultural forms in fact endured an era of socialism and have found new life in the post-socialist present, notwithstanding revolutionary socialist claims; continuities with a pre-socialist past have been produced within the historical imaginary of post-socialism; and socialist economic, political, and cultural forms have in fact endured in a purportedly post-socialist era, despite the claims of neo-liberal reformers. Harry West is a lecturer in Social Anthropology at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS). His has conducted research in the northern district of Mueda in Mozambique, where nationalist guerrillas based themselves during the anti-colonial war (1964-1974). As part of his project, he has studied how various social groups experienced, and coped with, violence during and after the war for independence. He has also taken interest in how colonialism and revolutionary socialism reconfigured the institutions of local authority, and, more recently, how post-socialist reforms have fostered a "revival of tradition" in rural Mozambique. Parvathi Raman is a lecturer in Social Anthropology in the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS). She has conducted research in South Africa on the role of Indians in the South African Communist Party and has written about the changing character of the socialist imagination in the twentieth century. She also works on the politics of diaspora, and multiculturalism and the neo-liberal state.
Polish Encyclopaedia ...
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Category : Poland
Languages : en
Pages : 838
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Category : Poland
Languages : en
Pages : 838
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Polish-English
Author: Kazimierz Bulas
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3112319311
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 784
Book Description
No detailed description available for "Polish-English".
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3112319311
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 784
Book Description
No detailed description available for "Polish-English".
Polish Encyclopaedia: Economic life of Poland
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Category : Poland
Languages : en
Pages : 836
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Category : Poland
Languages : en
Pages : 836
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Polish Encyclopædia: Economic life of Poland
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Category : Poland
Languages : en
Pages : 828
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Category : Poland
Languages : en
Pages : 828
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Mennonites in Early Modern Poland and Prussia
Author: Peter J. Klassen
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 0801891132
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
Klassen brings them to light and life by focusing on an unusual oasis of tolerance in the midst of a Europe convulsed by the wars of religion.
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 0801891132
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
Klassen brings them to light and life by focusing on an unusual oasis of tolerance in the midst of a Europe convulsed by the wars of religion.
The Art of Poland
Author: Irena Głębocka Piotrowska
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Category : Art, Polish
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
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Category : Art, Polish
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Poland and the Minority Races
Author: Arthur Lehman Goodhart
Publisher: London, Unwin
ISBN:
Category : Jews
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
Publisher: London, Unwin
ISBN:
Category : Jews
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
Wrapping and Unwrapping Material Culture
Author: Susanna Harris
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 131541564X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
This innovative volume challenges contemporary views on material culture by exploring the relationship between wrapping materials and practices and the objects, bodies, and places that define them. Using examples as diverse as baby swaddling, Egyptian mummies, Celtic tombs, lace underwear, textile clothing, and contemporary African silk, the dozen archaeologist and anthropologist contributors show how acts of wrapping and unwrapping are embedded in beliefs and thoughts of a particular time and place. Employing methods of artifact analysis, microscopy, and participant observation, the contributors provide a new lens on material culture and its relationship to cultural meaning.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 131541564X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
This innovative volume challenges contemporary views on material culture by exploring the relationship between wrapping materials and practices and the objects, bodies, and places that define them. Using examples as diverse as baby swaddling, Egyptian mummies, Celtic tombs, lace underwear, textile clothing, and contemporary African silk, the dozen archaeologist and anthropologist contributors show how acts of wrapping and unwrapping are embedded in beliefs and thoughts of a particular time and place. Employing methods of artifact analysis, microscopy, and participant observation, the contributors provide a new lens on material culture and its relationship to cultural meaning.