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Search for: [Abstract = %22Anthropology of the everyday as practised in winter %5C(a genuine%2C properly snowy and frosty one%5C) takes the author to an urban park. Although this park is relatively small and situated in the very centre of an urban agglomeration%2C in wintertime it offers seclusion and soothing silence%5C%3B time flows there at a leisurely pace and the noisy environment is truly far away. In this space%2C the walk turns into an anthropological practice and the anthropologist himself becomes le promeneur %E2%80%93 a mindful walker. While strolling around the park%2C he looks at it with a unique curiosity and a pensive sensitivity. Thus%2C the gaze of an anthropologist of the everyday becomes a contemplative gaze%2C i.e. one that penetrates into %E2%80%9Cthe middle of things%E2%80%9D. The author presents various modes and forms of anthropological contemplation. He also puts forward the assumption that anthropological contemplation requires a very special attitude%2C which %E2%80%93 following Baruch Spinoza%2C and especially Jos%C3%A9 Ortega y Gasset%2C Arne Naess and Jan Kurowicki %E2%80%93 may be termed amor intellectualis %5C(an anthropological one%5C). The author%E2%80%99s reflections have an undisguised autobiographical perspective%2C since the park in which he practises his wintertime anthropology of the everyday is the Sienkiewicz Park in his native city of %C5%81%C3%B3d%C5%BA%2C and thus a space with which he was intimately familiar while a child%22]

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