Published: 2018-12-31

THE ROLE OF A HUMAN BODY IN THE TRANSMISSION OF HISTORICAL KNOWLEDGE. NON-DISCURSIVE SOURCES IN ANTHROPOLOGICAL RESEARCH ON HISTORICAL REENACTMENT

Kamila BARANIECKA-OLSZEWSKA

Abstract

The article contributes to the ongoing and well established debate on the relation between anthropology and history. The author explores anthropological approaches to sources on the past and the discipline’s particular focus in the reflection on history. More specifically, the text discusses the role of the human body in evoking sources (both discursive and non-discursive) on the past. However, deriving from theories formulated in the area of performance studies, the author points to the importance of non-discursive sources in anthropological reflection on cultural representations of the past. She assumes the idea of body archive coined by Rebecca Schneider to discern the role of bodies in performances of history. The body appears both as a transmitter, creator and user of historical knowledge.

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Non-discursive sources, body archive, historical reenactment, anthropological research, embodient

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BARANIECKA-OLSZEWSKA, K. (2018). THE ROLE OF A HUMAN BODY IN THE TRANSMISSION OF HISTORICAL KNOWLEDGE. NON-DISCURSIVE SOURCES IN ANTHROPOLOGICAL RESEARCH ON HISTORICAL REENACTMENT. Etnografia Polska, 62, 221–231. Retrieved from https://journals.iaepan.pl/ep/article/view/139

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