TY  - BOOK
AU  - Krzysztof Zajas
PY  - 2013
CY  - Berlin, Germany
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 2191-3293
SN  - 9783653032420
TI  - Absent Culture
T2  - The Case of Polish Livonia
DO  - 10.3726/978-3-653-03242-0
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1047105
N2  - The book forms a monograph of the local culture of the old Polish Livonia, practically absent in contemporary humanistic research. It includes historical and anthropological recapitulation of the phenomenon, but it also tries to describe cultural mechanisms characteristic in the so-called border situations, on a specific example. An important part of the description is an attempt to capture the phenomenon of local Polish-Livonian identity, enshrined in the literary and scientific projects of Polish Livonians. They form a misguided, unsuccessful representation the land in the discourse of Polish humanities. The book treats Polish Livonia in two ways: as an example of a dispersed, multi-cultural Polish borderland identity and as a unique phenomenon, grown up on the outskirts of the old Republic of Poland.
KW  - narrative historiography, multiculturalism, borderlands, multiplied identity, peripheries, Nowhereland
LA  - English
ER  -