Publisher:

Instytut Archeologii i Etnologii Polskiej Akademii Nauk

Place of publishing:

Kraków

Description:

ill. ; 24 cm

Type of object:

Journal/Article

Abstract:

This article aims to explore the festival heritage of Mrągowo, which since the 1980s has contributed to shaping an image of an “imagined America”. Using concepts from the anthropology of tourism, particularly Visiting Friends and Relatives (VFR) tourism, the study examines journeys to a “personal city” – a space linked to individual memories of a specific historical reality. Mrągowo’s version of Amer-ica is also interpreted as an “imagined homeland” – a vision of freedom longed for by the citizens of the People’s Republic of Poland at the time. The analysis considers both physical travels, in the form of tourist visits, and symbolic journeys, as during festival days the city’s residents immerse themselves in a different, imagined space. To answer the research questions, qualitative methods were used, including in-depth interviews and a semiotic analysis of Mrągowo’s urban landscape.

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Relation:

Journal of Urban Ethnology

Volume:

23

Start page:

45 ; 58

Detailed Resource Type:

Article

Format:

application/octet-stream

Resource Identifier:

1429-0618 ; e-ISSN 2719-6526 ; doi:10.23858/JUE23.2025.003

Source:

IAiE PAN, call no. P 714 ; IAiE PAN, call no. P 1505 ; click here to follow the link

Language:

pol

Rights:

Creative Commons Attribution BY 4.0 license

Terms of use:

Copyright-protected material. [CC BY 4.0] May be used within the scope specified in Creative Commons Attribution BY 4.0 license, full text available at: ; -

Digitizing institution:

Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences

Original in:

Library of the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences

Access:

Open