Mushrooms: Polish Traditions and Modern Practices. Online Examples

摘要

For many years, mushrooms have fascinated not only biologists and those who have discovered and appreciated their culinary qualities, but also cultural anthropologists and ethnologists who have recognised the significance of mushrooms in eultural systems, traditions and customs. Therefore, reflections on mushrooms are often located on the borderline between the natural sciences and the humanities, fitting into the broadly discussed nature-culture opposition. An interdisciplinary field concerned withstudies of interactions between the natural and human worlds, between plants and people, is called ethnobotany (cf. Martin, 2004; Luczaj 2013, pp. 9-15).