Historia - folklor - tradycja a kwestia "małej ojczyzny"

History, folklore, tradition and "Local Homeland"

„A local homeland" is a derivative of the notion, or better to say, a figure of„homeland”. their connotations from the same trunk of mythical convictions, values and traditions. They are the after - math of the romantic attitude in Poland, and the semantic firld of both version of the notion „homeland" is situated between privacy and cosmopolitism, universality and particularism, rootedness and alienation.  In the contemporary culture the „local homeland” appears as subject of literary, scientific or essayists' reflection in various forms of literary production, in the study of" folklore and anthropology, in sociology and town-planing.  The volk vision of' the „local homeland”, created by numerous authors of poetry, memoirs anti prose, has been analysed by folklorists and ethnographers. The authors of these analysed by folklorists and ethnographers. The authors of these analyses emphasize the fact that the Statements of' folkloristic thinking. Stereotypes and figures of'collective imagination are used in them.  Applying the notion of „a local homeland” in various ways is not conducive to reflecting on its orginal, proper meaning. On the contrary, more and more remote associations are used, washing away its semantic field. One can say even more in the semantic relation „local homeland - space”, pragmatics evidently prefere space (area). There by, the dominant of the field is changing. It is the „own", our" area which is to be valorized afterwards that becomes promary in use.  The cultural effect of the change of meanings in the lexical field of „local homeland” is plainly visible. A sociological notation has become an idea accompanied by numerous sociotechnical manipulations in order to turn the place of living into realistically understood native land. ln these various ways of reception the category „local homeland” evokes now an association with tradition, folklore, sings of identification.