National Cultures at Grass-root Level /

National Cultures at Grass-root Level / / Antonina Kłoskowska.

The major dilemma this volume addresses is the function of national identity in a modern society, for despite the trend towards globalization, the world continues to be riddled with national conflict. Kłoskowska begins by looking at the controversy between two competing concepts of the origin of the...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Central European University Press eBook-Package 2013-1998
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Kłoskowska, Antonina,
Place / Publishing House:Budapest ;, New York : : Central European University Press, , [2022]
©2001
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (462 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Foreword
  • PART I THE THEORY, HISTORY AND ANTHROPOLOGY OF THE NATION
  • 1. Controversies Surrounding the Concept of Nation
  • 2. Historical Perspective
  • 3. "Patria "—Fatherland, Homeland— as the Correlate of the Nation
  • PART II THE CULTURALISTIC SOCIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE
  • 4. The Complexity and Diversity of National Symbolic Communities
  • 5. National Stereotypes and the Concept of National Identity
  • 6. Personal Identity as Related to National Identification and to the Appropriation of National Culture— the Valence of National Culture
  • 7. Empirical Materials—Concepts and Methods
  • PART III NATIONAL CONVERSIONS
  • 8. National Conversion as a Borderland Phenomenon
  • 9. The Polish Conversion of Albert Winkler
  • 10. German Conversions: Arrested or Realized
  • PART IV NATIONAL MINORITIES—PERIPHERIES OF THE DOMINANT CULTURE
  • 11. Variants of Ukrainity in the Light of Autobiographies
  • 12. The Problem of Belarussian Nationality in the Autobiographical Approach
  • 13. Silesian National Dilemmas: the Older Generation of Silesians
  • 14. Silesian National Dilemmas: the Younger Generation of Silesians
  • 15. Open and Closed National Attitudes in a Borderland Situation
  • PART V THE CENTER OF NATIONAL CULTURE
  • 16. A Portrait of the Wartime Generation in the Background
  • 17. Young Poles in the Period of the Democratic Breakthrough
  • 18. Young Poles Facing Others. An Open or a Closed Nation?
  • PART VI AN EPILOGUE ON EMIGRATION
  • 19. Scales of Polishness
  • 20. Józef Czapski: Polish Identification and Cultural Polyvalence
  • Conclusions. The Nation: What for?
  • Bibliography
  • Name Index

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