THE IDEA OF MAN AND DIVINITY IN ANTIQUITY PART II: Mesopotamian Divination. Some Historical, Religious and Anthropological Remarks

Divination was a salient characteristic of Mesopotamian civilization. Divination was basedon the idea that to some extent the future is pre-determined; but that the gods, especiallyShamash and Adad (“Shamash, lord of the...

MULTIVOCALITY OF CROSS IN POLISH SOCIETY PRACTICES The Semantics of the Cross in Contemporary Polish Language: As Based on Questionnaires, Culture and Dictionaries

The symbol of the cross has been with humans for centuries. Its significance, meticulously described by ethnologists and ethnographers, is not limited to the sacred, though this is the prevailing domain, which is illustr...

Słowo od redakcji: Cultures of the Past and the Past in our Cultures

ARCHITEKTONIKA WIEDZY Mitologiczny kontekst kanonicznych obrazów teorii ewolucji

Tekst stanowi analizę krytyczną zaprezentowanego przez Stephena Jay Goulda opisu kanonicznych przedstawień teorii ewolucji, takich jak drzewo czy drabina ewolucji. Autor niniejszego artykułu wyjaśnia trwałość obrazów kan...

MIĘDZY CZŁOWIEKIEM A BESTIĄ: Human-Woman-Animal: contexts, paradoxes and ambivalences of the sexual politics of meat

The direct impulse to write this essay was the recent twentieth anniversary of the first edition of Carol Adams’s famous book-manifesto The Sexual Politics of Meat. One of the most important themes in Adams’s work is the...