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All Kazimierz's Chlidren: An Intimate Ethnography of Sex, Death and Polish-Ukrainian kinship

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Volume 2

Intimate Ethnography



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All Kazimierz's Chlidren

An Intimate Ethnography of Sex, Death and Polish-Ukrainian kinship

Michał P. Garapich

280 pages, 21 figs, bibliog., index

ISBN  978-1-80768-196-8 $135.00/£104.00 / Hb / Not Yet Published (May 2027)


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This is a powerful and original work that fits the remit of an 'intimate ethnography' remarkably well. It stages, with considerable stylistic skill, the encounter between family history and ethnographic inquiry, between the political lives of the dead and the moral uncertainties of their descendants. Keith Murphy, Dublin City University

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Kazimierz, a wealthy landowner and the author's great-grandfather, fathered more than a dozen children with village women. By tracing his life and encountering previously unknown relatives, the author examines parental love, sibling relationships, and how family history is shaped through memory and concealment. It is an intimate ethnography of sexual violence, patriarchy, class, illegitimacy, death, and hidden family histories, set against 200 years of Polish–Ukrainian relations. It reflects on the practice and ethics of anthropology: what researchers choose to reveal, why they tell certain stories, and what draws them to investigate the lives of others.

Michał P. Garapich is currently a Professor at London Metropolitan University and is also affiliated with the University of Białystok, Poland. He has authored and contributed to three monographs and more than 70 publications on migration, diaspora, whiteness, nationalism, the far right, resistance, homelessness, intimate ethnography, Roma, illegitimacy, and gentry-peasant relations in Poland.

Subject: Anthropology (General)


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