Material Culture and Kinship in Poland
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anthropology of textiles
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Fur Animals
Fur Businesses
Fur Farmers
Fur Industry
Fur Samples
gender and materiality
generational identity
inheritance practices
intergenerational fur traditions Poland
Karol Wojtyla
material culture
PETA Ad
Pic Ture
Poland
Polish kinship
post-socialist societies
Raccoon Dogs
Roman Catholic Church
sensory ethnography
Shock Therapy
social change
Social Reproduction
Soviet Governance
Stare Miasto
Wear Fur
Younger Men
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- ISBN 9780367727932
- Weight: 340g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 31 Mar 2021
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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In this ethnography of Krakowian society, Siobhan Magee explores essential questions on the relationship between fur and culture in Poland. How can wearing a fur coat indicate someone's political views in Krakow, beyond their opinion on animal rights? What kinds of associations are given to someone wearing a fur coat in Poland? And what impact does generational difference have on the fur-wearing traditions of modern day Krakowians? Magee looks further into detailed analyses of conversations held relating to fur, including why fur is an apt inheritance for a grandmother to pass on to her granddaughter; what it was like trading fur on 'black markets' during socialism, and why some anti-fur activists link fur to patriarchal power and the Roman Catholic Church. In so doing, it becomes clear how fur is an evocative textile with an uncommonly rich symbolic and historical significance."Magee's research uncovers the symbolic and historic significance that fur evokes in relation to culture in Poland. In her investigations, her ethnography becomes a means for understanding generational difference in Poland. Written with reference to extensive fieldwork, Magee goes on to show how the classification of generation can be a much more accessible indicator and measure of difference than other categories, including sexuality, class and faith. Thus, 'generation' and 'inheritance' are shown to be uniquely powerful idioms with which to discuss power and social change in Poland. A new contribution to material culture and the sensory turn, this will be of interest to scholars of anthropology, ethnography, eastern Europe and material culture and textiles.
Siobhan Magee is Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Edinburgh, UK.
