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Hunters, Gatherers, and Practitioners of Powerlessness
An Ethnography of the Degraded in Postsocialist Poland
Tomasz Rakowski
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Hunters, Gatherers, and Practitioners of Powerlessness
An Ethnography of the Degraded in Postsocialist Poland
Tomasz Rakowski
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The socio-economic transformations of the 1990s have forced many people in Poland into impoverishment. Hunters, Gatherers, and Practitioners of Powerlessness gives a dramatic account of life after this degradation, tracking the experiences of unemployed miners, scrap collectors, and poverty-stricken village residents. Contrary to the images of passivity, resignation, and helplessness that have become powerful tropes in Polish journalism and academic writing, Tomasz Rakowski traces the ways in which people actively reconfigure their lives. As it turns out, the initial sense of degradation and helplessness often gives way to images of resourcefulness that reveal unusual hunting-and-gathering skills.
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APA 6 Citation
Rakowski, T. (2016). Hunters, Gatherers, and Practitioners of Powerlessness (1st ed.). Berghahn Books. Retrieved from https://www.perlego.com/book/777847/hunters-gatherers-and-practitioners-of-powerlessness-an-ethnography-of-the-degraded-in-postsocialist-poland-pdf (Original work published 2016)
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Rakowski, Tomasz. (2016) 2016. Hunters, Gatherers, and Practitioners of Powerlessness. 1st ed. Berghahn Books. https://www.perlego.com/book/777847/hunters-gatherers-and-practitioners-of-powerlessness-an-ethnography-of-the-degraded-in-postsocialist-poland-pdf.
Harvard Citation
Rakowski, T. (2016) Hunters, Gatherers, and Practitioners of Powerlessness. 1st edn. Berghahn Books. Available at: https://www.perlego.com/book/777847/hunters-gatherers-and-practitioners-of-powerlessness-an-ethnography-of-the-degraded-in-postsocialist-poland-pdf (Accessed: 14 October 2022).
MLA 7 Citation
Rakowski, Tomasz. Hunters, Gatherers, and Practitioners of Powerlessness. 1st ed. Berghahn Books, 2016. Web. 14 Oct. 2022.