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Hunters, gatherers, and practitioners of powerlessness : an ethnography of the degraded in postsocialist Poland / Tomasz Rakowski ; translated by Soren Gauger.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rakowski, Tomasz, author.
- Series:
- European anthropology in translation ; Volume 6.
- European anthropology in translation ; Volume 6
- Standardized Title:
- Łowcy, zbieracze, praktycy niemocy. English
- Language:
- English
- Polish
- Subjects (All):
- Poverty--Poland.
- Poverty.
- Unemployment--Poland.
- Unemployment.
- Post-communism--Poland.
- Post-communism.
- Poland--Social conditions--21st century.
- Poland.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (338 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Berghahn Books, 2016.
- Language Note:
- In English and Polish.
- 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.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- Introduction: The Anthropologist as a Poverty Inspector
- Chapter 1 The Szydłowiec and Przysucha Environs— The Świętokrzyskie Foothills
- Chapter 2 Wałbrzych—Boguszów-Gorce
- Chapter 3 The Bełchatów Brown Coal Mine—The Shadowlands of the Exposed Mine
- Conclusion
- Appendix
- Bibliography
- Index
- Notes:
- Translation of: Łowcy, zbieracze, praktycy niemocy. Gdańsk : Wydawnictwo słowo/obraz terytoria, 2009.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 278-302) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-80758-765-7
- 1-78533-241-4
- OCLC:
- 1046990648
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