VALUES AND INTANGIBLE CULTURAL HERITAGE - KATARZYNA SMYK

Discover the fascinating analysis of value systems of intangible heritage in Katarzyna Smyk's monograph. The author, based on selected cultural theories, examines the inheritance of Christmas Eve in Poland at the beginning of the 21st century. This is an original concept that combines the sanctioned discourse of heritage with the bottom-up discourse, creating a valuable cognitive work. Immerse yourself in anthropologically oriented axiological cultural studies and cultural axiosemiotics, where the author's knowledge and experience build a specific conceptual framework for capturing the values of intangible heritage.

• Original concept and methodology for describing values.
• Analysis of the inheritance of Christmas Eve in Poland.
• Combination of heritage discourse with bottom-up discourse.
• Anthropological orientation of cultural studies.
• Specific conceptual framework for capturing heritage values.

Katarzyna Smyk, the author of the monograph, positions herself directly in anthropologically oriented axiological cultural studies and cultural axiosemiotics. Her knowledge, research practice, and experience had a great impact on building a specific and original conceptual framework for capturing and describing the values of intangible heritage. It is a work that shows that there is room for a meeting of the sanctioned discourse of heritage with the bottom-up discourse, resulting in an excellent, cognitively very valuable text.

Katarzyna Smyk's monograph is an analysis of the value systems of intangible heritage, based on the example of the inheritance of Christmas Eve in Poland at the end of the first quarter of the 21st century. The author presented an original concept and methodology for describing values, creating a work that shows that there is room for a meeting of the sanctioned discourse of heritage with the bottom-up discourse. It is an excellent, cognitively very valuable text.

From the publishing review by Dr. habil. Grażyna Ewa Karpińska, em. Prof. UŁ, we learn that the author has created a work that shows that there is room for a meeting of the sanctioned discourse of heritage with the bottom-up discourse, resulting in an excellent, cognitively very valuable text. The author of the monograph positions herself directly in anthropologically oriented axiological cultural studies and cultural axiosemiotics.