| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 312 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
European anthropology in translation ; volume 6 |
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European anthropology in translation ; volume 6.
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| Contents |
Intro; Hunters, Gatherers, and Practitioners of Powerlessness; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Preface; Introduction; Chapter 1. The Szydłowiec and Przysucha Environs; Chapter 2. Wałbrzych; Chapter 3. The Bełchatów Brown Coal Mine; Conclusion; Appendix; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
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 |
| Notes |
Translation of: Łowcy, zbieracze, praktycy niemocy. Gdańsk : Wydawnictwo słowo/obraz terytoria, 2009 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed August 2, 2018) |
| Subject |
Poverty -- Poland
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Unemployment -- Poland
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Post-communism -- Poland
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Labor.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Labor & Industrial Relations.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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Post-communism
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Poverty
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Social conditions
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Unemployment
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Armut
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Postkommunismus
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Sozialer Wandel
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| SUBJECT |
Poland -- Social conditions -- 21st century
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| Subject |
Poland
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Polen
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781785332418 |
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1785332414 |
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