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On Differences Between the Rural and the Urban: Traditional Polish Peasant Dancing

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 February 2019

Roderyk Lange*
Affiliation:
St. Peter, Jersey, Channel Islands
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In anthropological research one usually turns to cultures where social bonds are still closely knit, and as a result “primitive” or tribal peoples are often the centre of interest in Western anthropology. But in many areas of Europe peasant culture has retained highly integrated patterns of life with relatively little disturbance almost up to the present day. Professionally organised field work reveals astonishing features of culture unexpectedly so close at hand in neighbouring industralised Europe.

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Copyright © 1975 By the International Folk Music Council 

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