Hunters, gatherers, and practitioners of powerlessness : an ethnography of the degraded in postsocialist Poland /

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Author / Creator:	Rakowski, Tomasz.
Uniform title:	Łowcy, zbieracze, praktycy niemocy. English
Imprint:	New York : Berghahn Books, 2016.
Description:	1 online resource (xiii, 312 pages) : illustrations
Language:	English
Series:	European anthropology in translation ; volume 6 European anthropology in translation ; volume 6.
Subject:	Poverty -- Poland. Unemployment -- Poland. Post-communism -- Poland. Post-communism. Poverty. Social conditions. Unemployment. Poland -- Social conditions -- 21st century. Poland.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13584516

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ISBN:	9781785332418 1785332414 9781785332401 1785332406
Notes:	Translation of: Łowcy, zbieracze, praktycy niemocy. Gdańsk : Wydawnictwo słowo/obraz terytoria, 2009. Includes bibliographical references and index. Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed August 2, 2018).
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.
Other form:	Print version: 9781785332401

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