Globalization and Regionalism

Dangers and Opportunities for Folk culture (a Polish perspective)

Abstract

As part of the great project of integrating Europe at the dawn of the twentyfirst century, modern Poland, undergoing a process of systemic (political) transformation, will be the topic of my musings on folk culture. In Polish ethnographic, ethnological and folklore research this sort of culture is identified with the nonscholarly “minor tradition” of peasant culture inherited from the Common Slavic epoch and subsequently developed within the Polish ethnos.