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    Published: 2023-12-20
    Vol. 21 (2023)

    “Folk-type culture” as an element of the development strategy of small ethnocultural groups in the example of Poznań Bambers

    dr Agnieszka Szczepaniak-Kroll
    Journal of Urban Ethnology
    Section: Articles
    DOI https://doi.org/10.23858/JUE21.2023.003

    Abstract

    The Bambers were immigrants from Upper Franconia who settled in villages near Poznań, Poland, over 300 years ago. At the beginning of the 20th century, these villages were incorporated into the city and became its districts, but the identity of the settlers’ descendants, known as Bambrzy in Polish (German: Posener Bamberger), their sense of cultural identity, remained strongly linked to the rural roots of their ancestors. Since the 1990s, the leaders of the Bambers’ association, Towarzystwo Bambrów Poznańskich, have been taking a number of effective actions to consolidate this group, preserve its heritage and popularise it. Their reference to folk elements of culture turns out to be an effective way of achieving these goals. Based on
    the example of the Poznań Bambers, I look at the phenomenon of using folk-type elements in the survival strategy of small ethnocultural groups. The article is based on my own qualitative research – interviews and observations. I also used the experience arising from the cooperation between the Poznań Bambers’ Association, the Bamber Museum in Poznań, and the Ethnology Laboratory of the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology, Polish Academy of Sciences, which was initiated in the 1990s and continues to this day.

    Keywords:

    the Bambers, folk culture, folk-type culture, region, local identity

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    Szczepaniak-Kroll, A. (2023). “Folk-type culture” as an element of the development strategy of small ethnocultural groups in the example of Poznań Bambers. Journal of Urban Ethnology, 21, 45–65. https://doi.org/10.23858/JUE21.2023.003

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