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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.
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.
Anthropologists often have fieldwork experiences that are not
explicitly analysed in their writings, though they nevertheless
contribute to and shape their ethnographic understandings, and can
resonate throughout their work for many years. The task of this
volume is precisely to uncover these layers of anthropological
knowledge-making. Contributors take on the challenge of
reconstructing the ways in which they originally entered the worlds
of research subjects – their anthropological Others – by
focusing on pre-textual and deeply phenomenological processes of
perceiving, noting, listening and sensing. Drawing on a wide range
of research experiences – with the Dogon in Mali, immigrant
football players in Spain, the Inuit of the Far North, Filipino
transnational families, miners in Poland and students in Scotland
– this book goes beyond an exploration of the development of
increased ethnographic sensitivity towards words or actions. It
also commences the foundational project of developing a new
language for building anthropological works, one stemming from
recurring acts of participation, and rooted primarily in the
pre-textual worlds of the tacit, often non-visible, and intense
experiences that exceed the limitations of conventional textual
accounts.
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