Select Bibliography of Polish Folkloristics for the Period: 1990-1998 Anna Brzozowska-Kraj~ Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Lublin, Poland The bibliography reveals trends typical of Polish folklore studies. and demonstrates various understandings of the term "folklore" by contemporary Polish folklorists. It especially reflects both textocentric and anthropocentric tendencies. as well as attempts at broadening the field of research. Popularizations of folklore and most literary transformations of folk motifs are excluded from this bibliography. PRIMARY SOURCES (TEXTS) Berysmieszne i ucieszne. Humorslaski. ed. D. Simonides. Warszawa: "Cyldady". 1992. An anthology of Silesian humor. edited by an emine,lt Polish scholar. dealing with the folklore of Upper and Lower Silesia. These popular jokes are classified into groups according to their subjects: married life. miners' work. priests. doctors. peasants. etc. Co~ zf:1YZoteponiechat. {Humoreski podhalaflskieJ. ed. and inoo. A. Brzozowska-Krajka, Krakow: Oficyna Podh~Im1~ka. 1997. A selection of humorous tales from the Podbale region (in the West Carpathians). The book briefly presents the history of the highlanders' humorous tale in the main stages of its development: anonymous tales. semi-anonymous tales (from the tmn of the nineteenth century). and comic stories written by contemporary authors. Czubala. D.• WSoOlczesne le~n4y mieiskie. Katowice: Uniwersytet Sl~ 1993. The first edition of contemporary Polish urban legends: a broad selection of texts collected in Silesia. A comparative dimension is achieved by the inclusion of texts collected in Russia. Belarus. Ukraine and Mongolia. Monographic chapters deal with Polish. European and non-European research on urban legends. with methods of field research. and with other questions that model further investigations of this genre. Czubala. D., Nasze mity wsp6lczesne. Katowice: Fundacja d1a Wspierania SlllSkiej Humanistyki. 1996. An extensive anthology of Polish contempoouy legends collected through local studies since the late 1970s. Its core consists of tales from Little Poland (Malopolska) and Silesia. It is the first publication of this kind in Poland. 11 SEEFA Journal 1999, Vol. IV No. 1 DialeJqy polslde i folk/or z rotnvch re~on6w. ed Z. Sobieszynski, Poznai1: Uniwersytet A. MickiewicZ&, 1991. A dialectological work consisting of a book and an audio cassette. It contains a selection of folk texts (legends. rites. customs) from various regions of Poland, collected from 1960-65. The texts are published in a simplified phonetic transcription. Dobkiewiczowa, K.. Szkarlatnv rycerz. Podania i ooowidci 0 zamkach ilasldch. Katowice: Wydawnictwo Sl~k, 1990. A collection of litemy adaptations of Silesian folk legends and tales concerning old castles of this region. Gawecfy z przeszlosci G6mego Slaska. ed. W. Korzeniowska, Opole: Instytut Sl~ki. 1990. Historical folk tales from Upper Silesia, arranged according to subject and in chronological order - from the beginnings of the Polish state (the ninth century) to contemporary times. Kadlubiec. K. D.• GOmiqy smiech.(Komizm ludowv oogranicza czesko-oolskie~o). Wroclaw: Polskie Towarzystwo Ludomawcze. 1995. Series editor: C. Hemas. vol. 1. A monograph of the humor of the Polish-Czech borderland, focusing on miners' tales - mainly from the second half of the nineteenth and the first half of the twentieth century. It also contains some fairly modem narratives. The book is divided into two parts. The first part constitutes a study of miners' humor. stressing the uniqueness of their mentality as well as the specificity of living in a borderland. The second part comprises comic tales told by various regional stOly-tellers. KsieJ:apieSn; biesiadnvch. ed. E. Lagunionek, Bialystok: Luk, 1994. A selection of Polish popular songs and ballads. Most of them are anonymous folk songs. some are folk texts adapted by professional song and dance ensembles.. The edition also contains songs from various epochs written by Polish poets and playwrights (e.g. M. Balucki. K. Przerwa- Tetmajer. J. Tuwim). which have become popular throughout the ages. Some popular Russian ballads and songs are also included. Ligon. S.• Rery i boik; ilaskie. Katowice: PiK. 1994. The book contains both original folkjokes from Silesia and cOIDiclitemy texts. e.g. dialogues. stories and sketches written by S. LigOJifor his radio programs. Lysko. A. Demony ; duszld boiszowskie. Qpowieici Iudowe z G6mego Slaska. Bojszowy: Stowarzyszenie MiloSnikow Ziemi Rodzinnej Korzyniec. 1992. Tales from Silesia (the region ofpszczyna) collected from 1988-92. They deal with mysterions phantOlDSand unusual events from the world of Silesian folk beliefs. myths and demonic 12 SEEFA Journal 1999, Vol. IV No. 1 characters. Lipowski, J .• Roz widzieli straine l0tJ,lie h Ciantoryi ...Gawetty /udowe z Nawsia kolo Jablonkowa na Slash Cies~ldm_ Wroclaw: Tart (Studio Wydawniczo-Poligraficme). 1992. A collection offolk stories from the Polish-Czech borderland and a study of the Jablonkow dialect (the region of Cieszyn). Lysiak, W .• Downy humor /udowy Pomona Zachodnie~o. Mi~ch6d: Eco. 1993. A collection of humorous folk tales from Pomorze Zachodnie (the area of the western coast of the Baltic Sea) from the turn of the nineteenth century. Lysiak, W., Mnisia GOra. Podania i baiki warciaflsko-noteckie~o miet4yrzecza. Mi~ch6d: Eco, 1992. A collection of traditional folk texts (legends, fairy tales) of the borderland of Great Poland (Wielkopolska) and Brandenburg (at the fork of the rivers Warta and Notec). The book presents beliefs, legends. superstitions and folk medicine common in this region at the turn of the ninet~th century. Nowak, Z., Diabe/ski strze/ec: Po/side baSnie i /e1{enqy-Warszawa: Nasza Ksiegamia, 1991. A substantial collection of fairy-tales and folk legends, many with little known plots. from all over Poland. O.,powie.scii /etJenqy Swieto~slde. ed. R WojewOdzki, Foreword A. Krupska-Perek, Kielce: STON 2, 1996. An anthology of various genres of folk prose from the Kielce region. The texts are arranged by subject: legends and explanations of natural and supernatural phenomena, history and human fate. traditions, beliefs, superstitions. folk medicine, etc. One section contains humorous· tales. All texts are from the twentieth century (some are from the first half of the century, others are contemporary). Piesni domowe i Do/ne spiewanki. ed. M. Brzuskowska, Zamosc: Muzeum Zamojskie, 1990. A collection of traditional (nineteenth century) folk songs from the Zamosc region. It comprises songs of different genres, especially ballads and ritual songs (for weddings, harvests, etc). There are notes to each text with comments on symbolic meanings of particular words. expressions and images. Podania. /etJenqy. baSnie po/skie. ed. A. Sojka, PoZlUl1i:Podsiedlik, Romanowski i SpOIka. 1997. A collection of ancient fairy tales and legends. Their folk and historical motifs are discussed by well-known Polish authors, e.g., J. I. Kraszewski, A. Oppman, E. Szelburg-Zarembina, et al. 13 SEEFA Journal 1999, Vol. IV No. 1 Polslca hal/ado ludowa. Antolo~a. eel E. Jaworska, Krak6w: Polskie Wydawnictwo Muzycme, 1991. An anthology of Polish traditional folk ballads classified according to 43 plot types, e.g., "A lady kills her husband, ""Three roses on a grave," or "Ungrateful daughters." The texts are classified into thematic groups, e. g., murder, loss of virginity, infidelity, infanticide. The author's afterword characterizes the selected types of ballads as crime stories, didactic ballads (parables) and humorous songs. It also provides an overview of research on this genre. Swirko, S., Rok Dlaei - rok trad. Kalendarz przvsiow i DroW'0stykOw rolniezveh. Poznan: Wydawnictwo Pomanskie, 1990. A selection of the most interesting proverbs concerning village life and the work of a fanner in his immediate natural environment (approximately 200 examples, from the fifteenth century to the present). Turek, K., Koleqy fomoslaskie. WvbOr tradel i opraeowanie. Katowice: G6rnoslltska Oficyna Wydawnicza, 1995. A collection of Upper Silesian secular carols and Christmas carols, with notes. The texts come from printed and handwritten sources (fifteenth-nineteenth centuries) and from contemporary local records. Zinkow, J., Krakowskie i iuraiskie (wvbOr) DOdonia. lefemfy. zwyczaie. 2nd eel, revised and enlarged, Krak6w: Platan, 1994. A selection of traditional folk tales and legends from Cracow and its environs (the so-called Jura Krakowsko-C~stochowska). It also contains folkloric traditions and customs still observed there but which have lost their original religious and ritual character. DICTIONARIES AND LEXICONS Kaczmarek, L., Skubalanka, T., Grabias, S., Slownik gwary studenekiei. Lublin: Uniwersytet Marii Curie-SkJodowskiej, 1994. As a dictionary of Polish students' slang, this is a unique book of language humor. It is divided into thematic sections, e.g. man, external appearance, clothes, physiological functions, the campus, love, friends, etc. Kowalski, P., Leksykon. Znaki §Wiata. Omen. przesad znaezenie. Warszawa: Pailstwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe, 1998. A lexicon of superstitions and omens rooted in Slavic mythology that reveals common elements in the traditional beliefs of various nations. Magic in Slavic mythology and culture is 14 SEEFA Journal 1999, Vol. IV No. 1 presented in the context of Ewupean and world folklore. The author's foreword discusses the characteristics of a folkloric and magical understanding of the world (i.e. space and its elements, nature and human activities). Krzyzanowski, J., Madre} f:lowie dose dwie slowie. Warszawa: Panstwowy Instytut Wydawniczy, 1994. A lexicon of Polish proverbs, sayings and quotations from the works of eminent men of letters compiled by a famous Polish folklorist and historian of literature. Each entIy contains an interesting and witty, yet profound, factual analysis. Slownik slereoty.p6w i $JlT1Iboli/udOM!Ych.1.1: Kosmos. ed. J. Bartmiilski and S. Niebrzegowska, Lublii1: Uniwersytet Marii Curie-Sldodowskiej, 1996. A lexicon of folk stereotypes and symbols connected with cosmic space, the sky, stars, fire and stones. This is the first part of a seven-volume series of lexicons representing the ethnolinguistic approach to folklore favored by Jerzy Bartmiitski and his disciples, co-authors of the edition. Ethnolinguistics interprets man, the world and natural phenomena in terms of archaic language stereotypes. The material recorded comes from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and was collected by dialectologists, folklorists and ethnographers. The lexicon is useful for comparative and historical studies of language and folklore. St~pniak, K., Slownik taiemnvch gwar Drzestpeqych. in cooperation with Z. Podgorzec, London: PuIs Publications Ltd., 1993. A unique dictionary of the slang of prisoners, criminals and members of other folk groups. STUDIES Ba.rtmiilski, J., Fo/k/or - ie~k - Doetyka, Wroclaw: Ossolineum, 1990. The author understands folklore as oral and collective verbal production. He emphasizes some basic aspects of the language of folklore as a poetic intO-dialect. He analyzes the structure of folk songs and problems of style, (e.g., compactness and the ritualistic function of repetition). He also examines folk song texts in the context of lexical statistics. Brzozowska-Krajka, A., Symbolika dobowego cvklu powszedniego w DO/skim fo/k/orze Irar!yc~nym. Lublin: Uniwersytet Marii Curie-Sldodowskiej, 1994. English version: Polish Traditional Folklore. The Magic of Time. trans. W. Krajka, Boulder-Lublin-New York: East European Monographs, M. Curie-Sldodowska University, Columbia University Press, 1998. This book discusses the temporal structures of peasant everyday life inherent in various verbal and nonverbal forms of Polish traditional folklore. The author's anthropocentric and interdisciplinary 15 SEEFA Journal 1999, Vol. IV No. 1 approach results in a comprehensive presentation of the examined phenomena through a complex analysis that considers the various codes making up the folk vision of man and the world. The English version of this study is the first substimtial scholarly publication in the field of Polish folkloristics easily accessible to American, English-speaking and international scholars. Dadak-Kozicka, J. K., Folk/or sztuka 2{ycia.U bridel antropologii muU'ki. Warszawa: Instytut Sztuki PAN, 1996. This book presents studies in Polish musical folklore from an anthropological perspective - an area of study thus far not well developed in Poland. This is an attempt at formulating the anthropology of music in theoretical terms. The author applies the structuralist distinction between the spheres of langue and parole of a verbal text to musical folklore. Dynak, W., Z dzieiOwpolskiei piesni lowieckiei. Wroclaw: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Wroclawskiego,I991. A monograph on Polish hunting songs from peasant and student folklore, both anonymous and attributed. The author analyzes both archaic texts from the nineteenth century and modem (twentieth century) examples. Dynak, W., Lowy. lowc;yi zwier:{)lnDw Dr:{)IslowiachDOlskich.Wroclaw: Towarzystwo Przyjaciol Polonistyki Wroclawskiej, 1993. The author analyzes hunters' proverbs, discusses their jargon, and points out both their origin among the nobility and their structural features: didacticism, figurativeness and vividness. He also reconstructs the realm of hunters' superstitions and magical practices. Part of this discussion deals with the game and birds that most frequently appear in these proverbs. Firlet, E. M.• SmoczaJama lIa Wawelu. His/ona. lefenda. smoki. Krakow: Universitas. 1996. The book deals with the history and the legend of the Dragon Den at Wawel Hill. It also discusses the role of the dragon motif in myths, faity-tales and legends. as well as in works of art. The author primarily discusses Polish culture. especially the folklore of the Cracow region, but he also refers to the role of the same motifs in myths and works of art from other cultures. Folk/or - sacrom - reli~a. ed. J. Bartmiilski, M. Jasmska-Wojtkowska, Lublin: Instytut Europy Srodkowo- Wschodniej. 1995. Proceedings from an international scholarly conference dealing with the category of sacrum (the sacred) and with religious values in folklore. The book includes papers by folklorists from Poland, Russia, Bulgaria and Slovakia. They are divided into three parts: traditional beliefs. rites and cultic practices; the realm of folk songs. proverbs, faity tales and prayers; and present-day folk and 16 SEEFA Journal 1999, Vol. IV No. 1 popular culture. The articles present the "poetics of sacrum " in Slavic folklore. FolkJorys(yka. l)ylema(y i perspek(ywy. ed. D. Simonides, Opole: Uniwersytet Opolski, 1995. Proceedings from a symposium of Polish and Slovak folklorists, representing both philological (including ethnolinguistic) and anthropological approaches. They discuss the present state of folkloristics (in Poland and in countries at a similar stage of development), possibilities of its growth, and its position among the humanities and in university education. FolkJorys(yka 1. Zes-tY(yNaukowe. ed. P. Kowalski, Opole: Uniwersytet Opolski, 1995. FolkJorys(yka 2. Zes-tY(YNaukowe. ed. T. SmoJ.iilska. Opole: Uniwersytet Opolski, 1996. These Festschrifts edited by the Institute ofFolkloristics, Opole University, present the scholarly interests of the Opole center of folklore studies. They concern not only Silesian folklore and .its role in the lives of the contemporary inhabitants of this region but also the folklore of other parts of Poland, including written and oral forms of both traditional and modern folklore. FolkJorys(yka. Materialy dla studentOw filolo~i polskie;. part 1, ed. P. Kowalski, T. Smoliilska, Opole: WyZS7J1Szkola Pedagogicma, 1992. A selection of scholarly works by Polish folklorists, ethnologists and ethnolinguists, intended for students of Polish philology specializing in folkloristics. Jaworska, E., Katalo~ Dolsldei balllK{y ludowei. Wroclaw: Ossolineum, 1990. A catalog of ballad motifs and texts of similar genre and type. The classification contains more than 2000 variants which come from published sources ranging from collections from the Romantic period to modern times. Ballads are placed into 11 thematic groups (e.g. murders, tragic events, reunions, etc.). The collection was created under the influence of The Catalog of Czech Folk Ballads compiled by M. Sramkova (Prague, 1970). KapeluS, H., 0 tune zlotoro~m. Szkice koledowe. Warsuwa: Instytut Badail Literackich PAN, 1991. A collection of essays on Polish carols, their poetics, cultural basis and regional variants. Kasjan, J. M., Usta i pi6ro. Studia 0 literatune uslnei i pisanei. Toruil: Uniwersytet M. Kopemika, 1994. The book is a collection of essays on various genres of verbal folklore (fables, riddles, charms) and contains examples' from contemporary folklore of the Chelmno region (Ziemia Chebnii1ska in northern Poland). Kowalski, P., Samotnosc i wsD6lnota. Ins~e w pnestneniach wsD6lczesne~o ~ia. Opole: WyZS7JiSzkola Pedagogicma, 1993. 17 SEEFA Journal 1999, Vol. IV No. 1 This volume.deals with chmch votive (prayer) books and children's graffiti. These two kinds of texts have completely different definitions of time, space and man. The author considers these two contemporaneous folkloric fonns of inscriptions using the anthropology of everyday life. Kowalski, P., Prosba do Pana Boga. Rzecz 0 festach wotywnych. Wroclaw: Towarzystwo PrzyjaciOl Polonistyki Wroclawskiej, 1994. The author's research was based on contemporary entries in votive books - a new field of interest for anthropologically oriented folklorists. The analyzed material reveals imitations of traditional mentality and the special role of the category of sacrifice. Lewandowski, A., Radkiewicz, J., Bocian w mowie i folk/one. Zielona GOm: WyZS'zJJSzkola Pedagogiczna, 1991. A study of the role of the stork in Polish language and folklore, based on recordings from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The authors present various aspects of knowledge about storks (biological descriptions and systematizations are included). Libera, L., Romantycznosc i folk/or. 0 tworczosci Jacka Malczewskiefo i Boleslawa Lesmiana. PoznaiJ.: Scientia, 1994. A comparative study offolklorism in the artistic output ofB. LeSmian (an eminent poet of Young Poland - Polish modernism) and J. Malczewski (a distinguished painter of the period). The author reconstructs the imagination and artistic visions of Malczewski and Lesmian taking into account the expressive function of folkloric and mythical traditions. Lugowska, J., W Swiecie ludowych opowiadafl. Teksty. gatunki. intencie. Wroclaw: Uniwersytet Wroclawski, 1993. The book expands the traditional genre classification and typology of folktales by including the criterion of the creative intention of the peasant narrator. The following kinds of intention are distinguished: infonnative, moralistic (a warning against violating a commonly accepted system of values), comic (evoking laughter), compensatory, and deliberate frightening of a listener. The publication also reflects upon this folklore genre as a unit of classification and contains a textual grammar. Lysiak, W., Ludowa wi~/a przeszlosci: historyzm folk/oro Wielkopolski. PozriaIi: Uniwersytet A. Mickiewicza, 1992. This study is devoted to the image of the past immanent in and interpreted by the folklore of Great Poland (Wielkopolska). It reveals mechanisms for the mythologization of history and people's sensitivity to the temporal limits of imagination and of their knowledge. The scholarly thesis is 18 SEEFA Journal 1999, Vol. IV No. 1 supported by approximately. 200 folk texts, mainly from the region ofWielkopolska: legends, tales connected with names of places, historical tales, reports of eyewitnesses. Lysiak, W., W kref:Uwielkopolskich demonaw i przekonafl niedemonicznych. Mi~dzychoo: Eco, 1993. This book deals with traditional folktales from Great Poland (Wielkopolska) based on beliefs in demonic, half-demonic and nondemonic beings. Its rich folkloric records date back to the turn of the nineteenth centUIy and come from the collections ofO. Knoop, l.W. Malczewski and V. Schweda. Madyda, A, W DOszukiwaniu iednosci czlowieka i §Wiota. Folk/or w tworczosci Stanislawo Vincenzo. Tortn1: Towarzystwo Naukowe w Toruniu, 1992. The author turns our attention to the folklore of East Carpathian (Ukrainian) highlanders in the works of Stanislaw Vincenz. This material was crucial to the creation of his tetralogy No If!YSokiei ooloninie. The author analyzes the highlanders' historical tales Qegends), memoirs, anecdotes, songs, riddles, etc. as elements of the world presented in Vincenz's novels. Niebrzegowska, S., Polski seMik ludowv. Lublin: Uniwersytet M. Curie-Sklodowskiej, 19%. This work constitutes a linguistic description of the oral transmission of folk dreams as a genre of folklore. The material was gathered in various regions of Poland through questionnaires. Theoretical discussions are supplemented by a glossary of dream images. Sielicki, F., Folk/or dzieciecy i mlodzietowy no Wileiszqynie w okresie mied2J1Woiennym.Wroclaw: Uniwersytet Wroclawski, 1992. This monograph is a detailed presentation of the folklore of children and young people of the Wilno region (the author's native land). It contains texts which were popular between World Wars I and II: lullabies, nursery thymes, plays, fairytales, riddles, music and dances. The book is based on ·the reminiscences of the author and those of his informants from the same region. The texts were collected from 1971 to 1988. Sielicki, F., Piesni polskie spiewane no Wileiszc¢flie w okresie mied2J1Woiennym.Wroclaw: Uniwersytet Wroclawski, 1992. A collection of Polish folk songs popular in the Wilno region between World Wars I and II: religious songs, humorous songs, children's songs, soldiers' songs, etc. Texts were taken from the . reminiscences of the author and his informants, and were collected from 1979 to 1991. Sielicki, F., Podanio. le~en4y. ane~doty i p~slowio no Wileiszqyi1lie w okresie mi~d2J1Woiennym_ Wroclaw: Uniwersytet Wroclawski, 1993. The seventh part of a study devoted to the history, culture and folklore of the region of Wilno. 19 SEEFA Journal 1999, Vol. IV No. 1 It deaIs with folk prose: tales (especially humorous), legends, ghost stories, proverbs and sayings. The material was taken from reminiscences of the author and his informants, and was collected from the 1960s to the present. Sierociuk, J., Pies" ludowa i i{WOra. Lublin: Krajowa Agencja WydawnicZ8, 1990. A dialectological study of the language of Polish peasant folk songs, based on recordings from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries from all over Poland. The author suggests the tenn "folklect" for the artistic language offolk song as distinct from "colloquial dialect", i.e. peasants' everyday speech. Simonides, D., 0 wsp6lczesnvch pamietnikach dzieci: Monogrqjia folklorystyczna, Opole: Instytut Sl~ki, 1993. This monograph about children's albums was based on intensive research and collecting. The author points to the early Renaissance origin of this genre and to its significant place in contemporary children's subculture. She characterizes its mode of existence as 'Wellas its rules of folk creation, i.e., their fonnulaic nature and anonymity. SmoliDska, T., Rodzina 0 sobie. Folklorystyezny aspekt rodzinnei tratlycii kulturowei. Opole: WyZs'Dl Szkma Pedagogicma, 1992. This book deals with the question of creation, function, transfonnation and disappearance of folklore within a family. It is based on sociological-ethnographic studies as well as local research, and deals with the structure of family life, family participation in folklore and with family folklore-creating situations. The aim of this work is to provide a model of folkloric family life. Slaskie uciechy i zabawy (materialy etnolo~czno-folklorystyczne). ed. I. Bukowska-Floreilska, Bytom: Muzeum GOmoslllSkie, 1991. A collection of articles about the main categories of play and humour in Silesian ritual and . nonritual folklore of adults and children. Turek, K., Ludowe zwyczaie. obrzel/y i piesni povzebowe na Gomym Slasku. Katowice: Uniwersytet SlllSki, 1993. This study is devoted to funeral rites in Upper Silesia, especially funeral songs, and is based on both traditional and modem records. W~Zowicz-Zi6lkowska, D., Mi/osc ludowa. Wzory mi/osci wiesniaczei w polskiei piesni ludowei XVIII-XXwieku. Wroclaw: Polskie Towarzystwo Ludoznawcze, 1991. A monograph on love in Polish traditional folk songs from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries. The author examines various patterns of love and attitudes toward human sexuality in the 20 SEEFA Journal 1999, Vol. IV No. 1 culture of Polish peasants and in their ballads and songs, which are analyzed from a structural point of view. The attitudes to love revealed in these folk texts vary from frivolous, jocular or even obscene to the tragedy of unfulfilled desire. The songs present youthful and romantic feelings ranging from marital affection to sinful and illicit love. W krau badan nod fo/Horem. Materioly pokonferencljne w dziesiecio/ecie smierci Franciszka Kotuli. ed. A. Kopoczek, K. Ruszel, RzeszOw: WyZsu Szkola Pedagogiczna, 1995. A collection of articles concerning well-known collectors of folklore from Eastern Little Poland (Malopolska): F. Kotula, Z. Wierzchowski, L. Magierski, B. Gustawicz. The vohnne also contains studies of the musical folklore of this region. Ws~stek krag ziemski. Antrop%gia. historia. /iteratura. works dedicated to Professor Czeslaw Hernas. ed. P. Kowalski, Wroclaw: Uniwersytet Wroclawski, 1998. The essays in this volume are dedicated to Professor Czeslaw Hemas, who was a pre-eminent Polish folklorist and a specialist in old Polish literature. They cover roles of encoding meanings in folklore, the identity of a folkloric text, various relationships between belles-lettres and popular literature, and studies of individual folklore genres (beggar's songs, lullabies, andjokes). Zlatanova-Strenk, N., Rodowocfy. ldea wsp6/noty w przekazach rodowodowych (no wybranym materia/e slowiaflskim). Warsuwa: Uniwersytet Warsuwski, 1992. This book discusses the sense of community in genealogical texts from selected Slavic materials. It views genealogy as a cultural phenomenon - a complex image reflecting various aspects of a sense of Community. The study offers some methodological suggestions for the sociological research of group consciousness. The theory of genealogy is the author's main field of interest. The book demonstrates the potential of a pragmatic approach to diverse forms of genealogical knowledge and stresses the importance of folklore texts as family saga. The study calls for further research into various genealogical texts. Z za~adnien po/skiei Ieu/tury mu~cznei. Studia fo/k/orystyczne. ed. A. Dygacz, Katowice: Uniwersytet SI2lski, 1994. This book presents research on musical folklore from Lower Silesia, Upper Silesia and Cieszyn Silesia and miners' folklore, as well as Polish and Czech songs. Analogies between problems of origin and interethnic problems are emphasized (Translated by Agnes Monies-Mizera) 21 SEEFA Journal 1999, Vol. IV No. 1