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Hunters, Gatherers, and Practitioners of Powerlessness - An Ethnography of the Degraded in Postsocialist Poland (Hardcover) Loot Price: R3,084
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Hunters, Gatherers, and Practitioners of Powerlessness - An Ethnography of the Degraded in Postsocialist Poland (Hardcover)

Tomasz Rakowski

Series: European Anthropology in Translation

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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.

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Imprint: Berghahn Books
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Series: European Anthropology in Translation
Release date: October 2016
Authors: Tomasz Rakowski
Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 332
ISBN-13: 978-1-78533-240-1
Categories: Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > Social & cultural anthropology > General
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LSN: 1-78533-240-6
Barcode: 9781785332401

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