Published : 2021-09-30

The physical-utilitarian pattern of physical culture and war experiences in former Yugoslavia

Lidia Pac-Pomarnacka



Agnieszka Augustyn



Dariusz Rutkowski



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Culture and cultural patterns created by societies are an important field of research. Many authors have provided evidence showing that cultural patterns also concern the human body. Because people are involved in cultural activities with their bodies, they create patterns of physical culture. The purpose of this article is to identify patterns of physical culture proposed by Florian Znaniecki and body value patterns proposed by Andrzej Pawłucki in a different cultural setting, namely in the countries of former Yugoslavia, in particular in the urban communities of Sarajevo, Vukovar and Zaprešić. The ethnographic study described in the article is an attempt to establish whether the Yugoslav wars waged in the 1990s prevented civilian inhabitants of Sarajevo (especially women and girls) from observing patterns of physical culture and whether the pattern they cultivated was of the physical-utilitarian type. The study was based on data collected by ob-servation, narrative interviews and the analysis of source texts. It was found that women and girls living in Sarajevo during the siege of the city adhered to utilitarian patterns of physical culture, which focused on developing body fitness and readiness to fight. A distorted reflection of this pat-tern could also be observed in the behaviour of children exposed to the reality of war.

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patterns of physical cultural, utilitarian pattern, the war in former Yugoslavia



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Pac-Pomarnacka, L., Augustyn, A., & Rutkowski, D. (2021). The physical-utilitarian pattern of physical culture and war experiences in former Yugoslavia. Studia Periegetica, 35(3), 61–86. https://doi.org/10.5604/01.3001.0015.6040

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