Hunters, Gatherers, and Practitioners of Powerlessness : : An Ethnography of the Degraded in Postsocialist Poland / / Tomasz Rakowski.
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...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2016 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2016] ©2016 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | European Anthropology in Translation ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (332 p.) |
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Table of 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