Published: 2017-12-31

CONFLICT ABOUT A SCYTHE’ IN EDWARD REDLIŃSKI’S BOOK KONOPIELKA AND THE CHANGING WAYS OF SEEING IN CONCEPTUAL SCHEMAS

Michał Rydlewski

Abstract

In this article, I make an intellectual experiment which is focused on how people and their worldview are determined by culture. The text is centered around a well-known story called ‘conflict about a scythe’ contained in a Polish novel by Edward Redliński, Konopielka. Using ethnological and philosophical texts of A.P.Kowalski, M. Foucault, M.Mauss, I explain how our knowledge and the magical culture determine the way of thinking. I ask to what extend folk communities described in Konopielka are determined by the magical way of seeing the world. In my opinion, there is a strong magical echo in the folk society which makes it problematic to understand different interpretations of the ‘conflict about a scythe’ in Polish ethnological descriptions.

Keywords:

Edward Redliński, Konopielka, cultural dimension of human perception, archeology of vision, conceptual schema, magic culture, Andrzej P. Kowalski, Michel Foucault, Marcel Mauss

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Rydlewski, M. (2017). CONFLICT ABOUT A SCYTHE’ IN EDWARD REDLIŃSKI’S BOOK KONOPIELKA AND THE CHANGING WAYS OF SEEING IN CONCEPTUAL SCHEMAS. Etnografia Polska, 61, 147–166. Retrieved from https://journals.iaepan.pl/ep/article/view/122

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