Published: 2024-12-20

Wisła nie jest kobietą. Antropologia a historia w kontekście biografii rzeki [Eng. Vistula is not a Woman. Anthropology and History in the Context of River Biography

Łukasz Smyrski Polish
Etnografia Polska
Section: Articles
DOI https://doi.org/10.23858/EP68.2024.3920

Abstract

This article is a proposition to broaden the historical perspective of river studies to include anthropology, which, inspired by posthumanist philosophy and blue humanities, incorporated water and other more-than-human subjects into ethnographic research for good. It has also developed specific approaches to the relational study of rivers, to identify how social and hydrological relations are intertwined and how they are mutually constitutive. A critical approach is taken to anthropocentric conceptions present in history that assume the dominance of humans over nature and that describe relations with rivers in terms of rivalries. Specifically, there is a need for a more interdisciplinary and interdisciplinary approach to rivers.Thus, there is a need for an interdisciplinary approach to nature-related research, inspiring and extending the boundaries of epistemological cognition.

Keywords:

Vistula river, posthuman anthropology, nature, human-river relationship, anthropocentrism

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Polish, Łukasz. (2024). Wisła nie jest kobietą. Antropologia a historia w kontekście biografii rzeki [Eng. Vistula is not a Woman. Anthropology and History in the Context of River Biography. Etnografia Polska, 68. https://doi.org/10.23858/EP68.2024.3920

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