Kombinowanie : agency, informality, and the poetics of self in Highland Poland
Kombinowanie : agency, informality, and the poetics of self in Highland Poland
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Kombinowanie:波兰高地的能动性、非正式性和自我诗学
DOI:
10.1111/1467-9655.12857
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发表时间:
2018
影响因子:
1.2
通讯作者:
Makovicky N
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作者:
Makovicky N
This article asks what role local models of agency and subjectivity play in the structure and interpretation of informal economic practices, and how this influences the ways in which people narrate their behaviour to others. Exploring the use of a common Polish idiom for informal activities –kombinowanie– amongst villagers in the Carpathian Highlands, it argues that the term acts as a ‘master‐trope’ for local identity, providing villagers with a narrative model for asserting and broadcasting their social agency to peers. Furthermore, it shows how in this particular ethnographic context, the retelling of instances of informal or illegal activity askombinowaniecan be seen as part of a Highlander ‘poetics of self’, in that each manifestation of the term carries with it a series of implicit sociohistorical and normative meanings that relate to notions of ‘typical’ Górale (Highland) behaviour. By characterizingkombinowanieas a type of tactics, I open up the term for comparative analysis with other local conceptions of agency which value insubordination.