Benefits of Rereading Texts about Folklore by Professor Kazimiera Zawistowicz-Adamska
The paper presents and analyses views of the scholar, ethnographer and founder of the so-called Łódź school of ethnography, Kazimiera Zawistowicz-Adamska (1897–1984) concerning the issues of cognitive difficulties they encountered – as well as some that are still experienced by folklore researchers....
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doaj-638f2188598f457d96372dcaa1f254a52021-10-04T11:44:08ZpolLodz University PressZeszyty Wiejskie1506-65412657-43732017-12-0123112110.18778/1506-6541.23.012985Benefits of Rereading Texts about Folklore by Professor Kazimiera Zawistowicz-AdamskaMaria Wieruszewska0Instytut Rozwoju Wsi i Rolnictwa Polskiej Akademii NaukThe paper presents and analyses views of the scholar, ethnographer and founder of the so-called Łódź school of ethnography, Kazimiera Zawistowicz-Adamska (1897–1984) concerning the issues of cognitive difficulties they encountered – as well as some that are still experienced by folklore researchers. While perceiving a close relationship between folklore and folk artistic culture this scholar emphasized the extent of studies devoted to these issues in the global science and their popularity in non-scientific circles. Simultaneously, she presented an opinion that ethnographers should not be constrained to studies on so-called material culture that is always conditioned socially and always appears in the context of phenomena (fairly conventionally) of both, social and spiritual culture. Thus, the scholar’s standpoint functions as a kind of conciliation for op-posing standpoints – supporters of things, on the one hand, and defenders of symbols on the other.https://czasopisma.uni.lodz.pl/zwiej/article/view/3460kazimiera zawistowicz-adamskaethnographyfolklore |
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Benefits of Rereading Texts about Folklore by Professor Kazimiera Zawistowicz-Adamska |
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Benefits of Rereading Texts about Folklore by Professor Kazimiera Zawistowicz-Adamska |
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Lodz University Press |
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The paper presents and analyses views of the scholar, ethnographer and founder of the so-called Łódź school of ethnography, Kazimiera Zawistowicz-Adamska (1897–1984) concerning the issues of cognitive difficulties they encountered – as well as some that are still experienced by folklore researchers.
While perceiving a close relationship between folklore and folk artistic culture this scholar emphasized the extent of studies devoted to these issues in the global science and their popularity in non-scientific circles. Simultaneously, she presented an opinion that ethnographers should not be constrained to studies on so-called material culture that is always conditioned socially and always appears in the context of phenomena (fairly conventionally) of both, social and spiritual culture. Thus, the scholar’s standpoint functions as a kind of conciliation for op-posing standpoints – supporters of things, on the one hand, and defenders of symbols on the other. |
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