scholarly journals Traditional games and fun of the Roma community inhabiting eastern Poland. An anthropologicalethnomethodological perspective

2013 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 288-293
Author(s):  
Ernest Szum ◽  
Ryszard Cieśliński
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Material Culture ◽  
Social Interactions ◽  
Ethnic Group ◽  
Interpersonal Relations ◽  
Physical Culture ◽  
Social Actions ◽  
Polish Society ◽  
History Of ◽  
Entire History

Abstract Introduction. The Roma for strangers are a people of serenity and fun. By the majority of the Polish society they are perceived as people who have lost touch with a broader context of social reality. The aim of the research was to gather material concerning traditional Gypsy fun and games, systematize the knowledge about the physical culture of the Polish Roma and also determine the sense of social actions taken within the scope of games and fun of this ethnic group. Material and methods. The research, belonging to the current of anthropological-ethnological thought, was carried out among the Roma from the eastern part of Poland. The findings were presented as elements of non-material culture and a form of physical activity of this ethnic group. The traditional games and fun of the Polish Roma were presented against the background of general characteristics of the ethnic group and the entire history of the Gypsies presence on Polish soil. Results and conclusions. The research has shown that the physical culture of the Polish Roma, displayed in the form of games and fun, is crucial for strengthening the existing social bonds and shaping new ones. The research has proven that the joint physical culture of the Polish Roma, being an integrating factor, initiates and intensifies social interactions, and is conducive to the development of interpersonal relations. It has been found that there are patterns of physical culture and forms of physical activity of characteristic of the Roma community. The study and the interpretation of the findings, has enabled the authors to systematize the knowledge on the physical culture of the Polish Roma, and also determine the sense of the actions taken by them in this scope.

scholarly journals Fun and Games as a Form of Physical Culture in the Traditional Religious and Social Rituals of the Lemkos. the Ethnomethodological Approach

2013 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 44-50
Author(s):  
Ryszard Cieśliński ◽  
Ernest Szum
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Ethnic Group ◽  
Cultural Anthropology ◽  
Broad Sense ◽  
Community Living ◽  
Physical Culture ◽  
Cultural System ◽  
South Eastern ◽  
History Of ◽  
Entire History

Abstract This article presents the Lemkos games and fun as popular forms of physical culture of the Lemko community living in former areas of south-eastern Poland. It presents them as part of the intangible culture of the vanishing ethnic group. The traditional elements of physical culture of the Lemko community, especially fun and games have been presented on the basis of the general characteristics of this ethnic group, and the entire history of the presence of the Lemkos in Poland. Folk fun and games, as a form of physical activity are presented in the broad sense of physical and cultural system and the Lemko community located within the cultural system. The need for such a study is due to the fact that there are no other ethnological or cultural anthropology studies on physical culture of this ethnic group.

scholarly journals Physical Culture Patterns in the Lifestyle of the Polish Society

2013 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Alicja Nowak
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Human Development ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
The Body ◽  
Physical Culture ◽  
Gender And Education ◽  
European Tradition ◽  
Polish Society ◽  
Positive Traits

Abstract Society's lifestyles, influenced by the evolving preferences of values of subsequent generations, are subject to gradual changes. This variation in lifestyles requires a reflection on the patterns of physical culture and values amongst the youth, adults and the elderly. Patterns of physical culture shaped in the European tradition are also present in the contemporary lifestyles of all generations. People's choices concerning physical culture depend on the type and level of their physical activity, attitudes towards of the body, age, gender and education. In the classic physical types distinguished by Polish sociologists we can identify positive traits conducive to human development, traits inducing controversial attitude, and clearly negative ones that are health-threatening. In conclusion the paper puts forward a question about the direction of the development of physical culture patterns in future and the level of recognition of particular values by different generations. Some of the contemporary lifestyles arouse concerns of educators.

scholarly journals Physical Culture in the Tradition and Rites of the Tatar Population Inhabiting Polish Territory

2012 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 91-96
Author(s):  
Ernest Szum ◽  
Ryszard Cieoeliński
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Ethnic Group ◽  
National Culture ◽  
Cultural Anthropology ◽  
Physical Culture ◽  
History Of

Abstract This report presents the findings of a qualitative study on the physical culture of the Tatar community inhabiting Polish territory. Historical elements of the physical culture of the Tatar community have been presented against the background of general characteristics of this ethnic group and the history of the presence of Tatars on Polish soil. The article shows particular aspects of the Tatar tradition of physical culture and its place in Tatar national culture. This is the first known report on the physical culture of this ethnic group on the ground of ethnology or cultural anthropology.

scholarly journals Theatre as Contagion: Making Sense of Communication in Performative Arts

Text Matters ◽  
2017 ◽  
pp. 291-304
Author(s):  
Małgorzata Sugiera
Keyword(s):  
Social Interactions ◽  
Social Bonds ◽  
Communicable Diseases ◽  
Tipping Point ◽  
Fictional World ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
Art Forms ◽  
History Of ◽  
Audience Responses ◽  
Entire History

Contagion is more than an epidemiological fact. The medical usage of the term is no more and no less metaphorical than in the entire history of explanations of how beliefs circulate in social interactions. The circulation of such communicable diseases and the circulation of ideas are both material and experiential. Diseases and ideas expose the power and danger of bodies in contact, as well as the fragility and tenacity of social bonds. In the case of the theatre, various tropes of contagion are to be found in both the fictional world on the stage (at least since Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex) and in many theories defining the rules of interaction between theatre audiences, fictitious characters and/or performers. In consequence, the historically changing concept of contagion has in many respects influenced how mimesis was conceived and understood. The main goal of my article is to demonstrate how the concept of contagion has changed over the last few decades and how it may influence our understanding of the idea of mimesis and participation in performative arts. This will be achieved in two steps. Firstly, I will compare the concept of contagion as the outbreak narrative that had influenced, among others, Antonin Artaud’s The Theater and the Plague with the more recent and dynamic concept of epidemic structured around the tipping point. Secondly, I will look for performative art forms with similar structure of audience responses, analyzing Mariano Pensotti’s project Sometimes I Think, I Can See You (2010), in order to demonstrate new forms of performativity and (re)presentation.

scholarly journals TRADITIONAL COSTUME OF THE ORLOVSKY KOMI: SPECIFICITY AND DYNAMICS AT THE “HISTORICAL TURNING POINT” OF THE 1920s

2020 ◽  
pp. 139-146
Author(s):  
I. Yu. Trushkova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Ethnic Group ◽  
Turning Point ◽  
Glass Beads ◽  
Ethnic Culture ◽  
History Of ◽  
Group A

Western Permian Komi lived in the Orlovsky district of the Vyatka province, and their ethnic culture revealed a series of features and similarities with other communities of the Komi and neighboring peoples. The article analyzes the costume complexes of this ethnic group. A bright page in the history of material culture is represented by the traditional women's costume at the “historical turning point”, i.e. in the 1920s. Its early version includes a magpie headdress, a shirt with slanting Cumack rugs, a straight sleeve with longitudinal embroidery, a red Kosoklinny sarafan, a belt, an apron, beads with Kauri shells and glass beads, double-sided copper earrings and rings, and nasal jewelry. Kosoklinny sarafans from purchased red fabric or blue dyed canvas were decorated with a green woolen cord laid in a stylized tree on the chest and in the centre of the hem in front. The back was decorated with braid sewn above the shoulder blades. The later version includes shirts with yokes, like the Russians in the Veliko-Ustyug district had, and straight pest-row sarafans, like in the middle Vyatka region. Headdresses, scarves, aprons and belts were reproduced in the old way.

scholarly journals Przemiany w sporcie łódzkim po 1956 r

2020 ◽  
pp. 44-52
Author(s):  
Julian Jaroszewski
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Social Life ◽  
The Other ◽  
Physical Culture ◽  
National Council ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Polish Society ◽  
Communist Countries ◽  
The City

The sport movement along with other aspects of social life was strictly controlled in the communist countries. After Joseph Stalin’s death in 1953 the «thaw» was a hope for democratization. On the other hand, a hope for the Polish society appeared in 1956 when, after a wave  of demands and criticism, people enforced the liberalization of home politics. The Head Committee of Physical Culture also believed in the necessity of unavoidable changes. It aimed, however, at the rigid control of the direction and the tempo of the changes by the party apparatus. Although post-October changes followed the mainstream ones, the local specificity can be noticed. They resulted, among the others, from the fact that there existed two committees of physical culture, one in the city of Łódź, the other one in the voivodeship. The process of changes in Łódzkie region was initiated by the national council of sport activists in which regional delegates participated. Both the meeting itself and further changes were scrutinously supervised by party authorities. As a consequence of talks and implemented acts the majority of clubs and associations returned to their traditional names. Sport activists expelled after 1949 were welcome to work in them. This process did not concern all of them. An attempt to reactivate ‘Sokół’ Gymnastics Association was not approved by party authorities because it was a counter proposition to The Society for the Promotion of Sport and Physical Activity ‒ a unit newly created by the communists. Previous sport sections functioning under The Voivodeship Committee of Physical Culture and Łódzki Committee of Physical Culture, after being combined, reflected county sport unions that were in operation until 1949.

scholarly journals Scandinavian walking as a mean of maintaining a healthy lifestyle among university students

2018 ◽  
pp. 85-87
Author(s):  
Igor Mikhailovich Dobrynin ◽  
Vadim Aleksandrovich Shemiatikhin
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Physical Education ◽  
University Students ◽  
Physical Health ◽  
Healthy Lifestyle ◽  
Correct Choice ◽  
Physical Culture ◽  
History Of ◽  
Russian Universities ◽  
Physical Preparation

The article is devoted to the questions of Scandinavian walking development as one of the types of physical culture among students. In practical terms this means that such physical preparation of students is necessary, which would maximally contribute to the formation of a sustainable motivational attitude to physical education. The article examines the history of the development of Scandinavian walking in Russian universities, the specifics of preparing for this type of physical activity: the correct choice and individual adaptation of the inventory, the effective and technically correct methods of applying Scandinavian walking and its impact on the physical health of students.

Forms of physical activity of the elderly

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 221-228
Author(s):  
Piotr Czarnecki ◽  
◽  
Justyna Podgórska-Bednarz ◽  
Lidia Perenc ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Elderly People ◽  
Population Aging ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Good Health ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Polish Society ◽  
Central Statistical ◽  
Key Phrases ◽  
The Impact

Introduction. Physical activity is known to be an important factor influencing health throughout human life. This issue has become crucial for public health due to the aging of the population in both developed and developing countries. Aim. is to present a literature review on the forms of physical activity undertaken by the elderly, as well as on issues related to physical activity and the population aging. Material and methods. The study was prepared on the basis of a review of Polish and foreign literature. The following databases and data sources were used: EBSCO, ScienceDirect and Google Scholar. An additional source of data were the websites of the Central Statistical Office. Strictly defined key phrases were used during the collection of literature. The work has been divided into thematic subsections on the aging of the society, the impact of physical activity on health and the main topic, i.e. forms of physical activity selected by the elderly. Analysis of the literature. The number of elderly people in Polish society has increased by almost 3.7 million over three decades. Therefore, an important topic is prophylaxis aimed at increasing the number of days in good health, largely covering the broadly understood activation of the elderly. The available data indicate that only 12% of elderly people undertake physical activity once a week. The most common form of spending free time actively is walking (as many as 73% of people in this population declare this form of physical activity in one of the presented studies). Conclusion. Organized forms of physical activity are undertaken much less frequently by the analyzed age group mainly due to financial limitations and limited availability of sports infrastructure.

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