Wojciech Połeć

Warsaw University of Life Sciences - SGGW | SGGW · Faculty of Social Sciences

The aim of this work is to identify social constraints on the preservation and sustainable development of traditional crafts in a developed society and to propose a sociological model of possible actions and changes considering not only the situation of a craftsman, but also the potential consumers of goods produced by craftsmen using traditional t...

W niniejszym artykule skupiam się na buriackich społecznościach lokalnych we wschodniej Mongolii. Poruszam kwestię roli społeczności lokalnych i lokalnych miejsc kultu dla budowania tożsamości na poziomie mezostrukturalnym, który można uznać za podstawowy poziom odniesień tożsamościowych. Podstawą niniejszych rozważań są badania o charakterze jakoś...

A minority language in the globalizing world: The Buryat language on the Internet The situation of languages on the Internet seems to reproduce their situation in offline reality: dominant languages with a large number of users and support from state and society are more widespread. This does not mean, however, that minority languages are not pres...

In this study, I refer to the metaphor of the cry of Minerva’s owl, which was supposed to herald the twilight of a given phenomenon into the classic scientific descriptions of Siberian shamanism, which was treated by many scientists as part of the phenomenon “universal” for the history of the religion of humanity, and at the same time belonging onl...

Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, religious revival has played an important role in the changes taking place in the lives of peoples who inhabit Siberia. Religion has been regarded as one of the most important factors shaping national consciousness and, at the same time, one of the primary means through which national identity can be expresse...

The study focuses on factors considered to be essential in determining opinions about the indissolubility of marriage, reasons which are regarded as important for decisions about potential divorce, and reasons which are seen as supportive of staying in a relationship despite a crisis and dissatisfaction with a marriage. The study was performed on a...

In the paper, the author proposes a reflection on contemporary Buryat shamanism in the framework of cultural reflexivity. The text is based on fieldwork in the Republic of Buryatia and the Baikal region (from 2000, 2010, 2013 and 2014). The author argues that the Buryat shaman can be seen as a 'cultural expert' building a system of cultural reflexi...

In this article the author examines the ways of describing transvestism of shamans in the scientific literature. The author extends the analysis of literature through a case study based on fieldwork. The main objective of the study is to show how the image of apparently very similar phenomena changes when we put it in a broader cultural context. Th...

The subject of this article is a reflection on the bonds between the sex of a shaman and the concepts of gender prevailing in the culture in which we meet male and female shamans. Based on notions of differentiation of sexes among shamans, widespread in scientific and popular science literature, the author’s intention is to show intercultural condi...

In the paper authors analyze conflicted actions focused on revival of Buryat ethnic minority culture and state unification policy on the local level, in the Siberian part of the Russian Federation. Using the example of the fifteen-year history of a Siberian ethno-cultural festival authors show how manipulation of categories of “traditional culture”...