Description

• Title:
  The Farmers’ Calendar as an example of a cultural factor shaping the knowledge about the countryside and agriculture in Poland
• Creator:
  Wójcik, Marcin
• Contributor:
  Uniwersytet Łódzki
• Description:
  Knowledge as a factor of rural development; Chapter;
  The paper presents The Farmers’ Calendar – a source of knowledge about agriculture addressed to farmers, which carries not only useful information but also a specific cultural transfer. This information is in fact embedded in the traditional cultural pattern, strongly associated with religious practices, the sphere of the family values and all the elements which stress the specific (magical and religious) dimension of the relation between a farmer and the nature. Although they cannot be regarded as the main source of knowledge about agriculture, these materials should be considered as an important expression of the cultural transmission and the way of thinking of a large group of people engaged in farming in Poland, especially in the eastern and southern regions of the country. The information from The Farmers’ Calendar was divided according to different criteria, including the volatility of the information over time (since the 1990s), the promoted interpretation of the vision of farmers’ work and the changes that have been taking place in the Polish agriculture.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Date:
  2014.01.31;
  2013
• Type:
  Book chapter
• Language:
  English
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURE AND FOOD ECONOMICS - NATIONAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE POZNAŃ UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES
• Relation:
  EUROPEAN RURAL DEVELOPMENT NETWORK;Rural areas and development, 10
• Subject:
  knowledge;
  cultural factors;
  agriculture;
  Poland
• Identifier:
  978-83-7658-378-5;
  http://hdl.handle.net/11089/3353
• Data provider:
  Repozytorium Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
• Can I use it?:
  seek permission
• Type:
  text