Kamil Kajkowski
Biographic Data
| ID | 338003 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kamil Kajkowski |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kamil |
| FAMILY NAME | Kajkowski |
| SIGNATURE | KAJKOWSKI K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Zachodniopomorskie Centrum Onkologii |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9538-0963 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 17 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Odcięte stopy, odpiłowane kopyta… W kręgu rozważań nad metodami badań archeologicznych śladów obrzędowości funeralnej dawnych Słowian
The research potential of archaeology in investigating ancient religiosity remains a topic of enduring debate involving both proponents, sceptics and (hyper)critics of the validity of such an approach. The result of this discourse is the emergence of a separate research discipline: archaeology of religions. It has developed its own technique to better understand and interpret traces of ritual practices. However, the research methods used by archa…
Po co archeologom archeologia? Raz jeszcze o „maskach” z Opola
Prezentowane wystąpienie jest odpowiedzią na uwagi P. Szczepanika wyartykułowane w stosunku do opublikowanego w poprzednim tomie „Archeologii Polski” tekstu mojego autorstwa pt. Maski z Opola w kontekście obrzędowości średniowiecznych Słowian. Ze względu na treść uwag polemicznych, dyskusji poddane zostały przede wszystkim zastosowane w nim metody badawcze oraz umiejętność pracy na materiale źródłowym obrazujące spore wątpliwości dotyczące zarówn…
Źdźbło w oku bliźniego widzisz, a belki w swoim nie dostrzegasz” (MAT. 7
Niedugo po opublikowaniu recenzji omawiajcej ksik Pawa Szczepanika dotara do mnie wiadomo, e zdecydowa si on podj polemik z postawionymi w niej uwagami. Wyczekiwaem tej odpowiedzi, liczc, e znajd w niej treci podparte refleksjami podlegajcymi prawidom dyskusji naukowej. Tak si niestety nie stao, a zamiast repliki omawiajcej stawiane zarzuty znajdzie tu Czytelnik bezpardonowy atak peen trudnych do ukrycia emocji i ali wylewanych na osob recenzenta…
Kryzys Monarchi Piastowskiej” I Problem Tzw. Reakcji Pogańskiej Okiem Archeologa
The turmoil of the 1030s in the Polish territory has so far attracted attention of historians. A detailed analysis of the information available in the written sources has strengthened a position in the result of which (in line with the reference to the events in question) the pagan backlash was to stem primarily from religious reasons. This interpretations suggests and provokes reception of Mieszko II’s domain as a completely Christian organisati…
Maski z Opola w kontekście obrzędowości średniowiecznych Słowian
Nadrzędnym celem artykułu jest analiza podstaw źródłowych oraz interpretacyjnych dotyczących tzw. masek z Opola. Przedmioty te na stałe weszły do studiów nad religią przedchrześcijańską Słowian Zachodnich, szybko osiągając status ikonicznych. Tym, co wzbudza zaskoczenie, jest widoczna w literaturze, w zasadzie bezkrytyczna akceptacja identyfikacji obu omawianych przedmiotów, jaką ponad półwiecze temu zaproponowała Helena Cehak-Hołubowiczowa. Żade…
Myth in Action? Figurative Images on Ceramics as a Source for Studying the Pre-Christian Beliefs of Western Slavs
The spiritual culture of Western Slavs is becoming an increasingly prominent research field in archaeology. The dynamic growth of material evidence allows archaeologists not only to expand the corpus of evidence used in their work but also to formulate new hypotheses that broaden the current state of knowledge, as well as to develop new research trajectories. The study of relics of cult-places and the material remains of ritual ceremonies play a …
Slavs and Snakes
This article offers a new perspective on a diverse corpus of high-status Western Slavic objects from the domain of the Piast dynasty in Poland, dated between the tenth and eleventh centuries ad . It is proposed that the lavish zoomorphic decorations, often depicting snakes, found on jewellery, weapons, and equestrian equipment reflected Western Slavic pre-Christian religious ideas and served as material markers of elite identity. The results of t…
Zagadnienie tzw. grodów kultowych na wczesnośredniowiecznym Pomorzu
Zasadniczym problemem badawczym, jakim poświęcono prezentowane uwagi, jest zagadnienievidentyfikacji i obecności na Pomorzu struktur osadniczych określanych w literaturze archeologicznej jako grody kultowe. Charakterystyce poddano cechy konstrukcyjne oraz zarejestrowane w obszarach zamkniętych pierścieniem wałów źródła wykopaliskowe mogące podważać osadnicze i/lub militarne przeznaczenie grodów. Do tych ostatnich zaliczono słabo czytelną warstwę …
Water in Pre-Christian Beliefs in Pomerania (Northern Poland) of the Early Medieval Period Woda w przedchrześcijańskich wierzeniach na wczesnośredniowiecznym Pomorzu (północna Polska)
Based on written sources and archaeological evidence, ethnographic and linguistic material, and the knowledge of the rest of Slavonic-occupied regions, the authors research early medieval Pomeranian communities in which water played a significant role. Water, as a life-providing element on the one hand, and a destructive element on the other, was not only essential for the economy, but also indispensably carried symbolic meaning and played an imp…
Islands as Symbolic Centres of the Early Medieval Settlement Patterns in Middle Pomerania (Northern Poland) Wyspy jako symboliczne centra wczesnośredniowiecznych mikroregionów osadniczych Pomorza środ…
Islands have played a significant role in the region of Pomerania. Isolated from the rest of the landscape, islands appealed to the human psyche in a highly distinct way. Because of their geographic isolation, they allowed their inhabitants to develop relations of a transcendental character. According to scholars of religion, when people searched for a place of settlement, they looked, above all, for a specific, unique area. In a symbolic sense, …
Slavic Journeys to the Otherworld. Remarks on the Eschatology of Early Medieval Pomeranians Słowiańskie wędrówki w zaświaty. Kilka uwag na temat eschatologii wczesnośredniowiecznych Pomorzan
Many obstacles appear in attempts at explore and reconstruct the pagan rituals and beliefs of early medieval Pomeranians. This is not only due to the lack of written accounts referring to such practices, but also because of the various problems with unravelling the meaning and content of the archaeological evidence. Today, it is often difficult to determine how certain places or objects were perceived by past societies and with what symbolism the…
Znaczenie odciętych głów w obrzędowości pogańskiej wczesnośredniowiecznych Słowian zachodnich The Meaning of Severed Heads in Ritualism of Early Medieval Western Slavs
The author of this paper analyses the sources of the early medieval Western Slavs that point to the existence of the beliefs that connected heads with the essence of the life – the spirit/soul, and considered the head as the most important part of the human body, also possessing a mediatory nature. The head was believed to encompass the most significant aspects of human personality and individual skills. It could also have had supernatural qualit…
The Multi-faced So-called Miniature Idols from the Baltic Sea Area Wielotwarzowe miniaturowe idole z basenu Morza Bałtyckiego
The aim of this text is to present early medieval miniature figurines discovered in the Baltic Sea region. The authors review interpretations of this archaeological finds from literature and offer a new perspective for their functions. The next problem dealt with is the ethno-cultural membership of the users of the objects.We would consider those figurines as symbols or perhaps fetishes referring to a particular sacral power, perhaps associated w…
Vampires, criminals or slaves? Reinterpreting 'deviant burials' in early medieval Poland
Unusual funerary behaviour is now an exciting area of research in Central and Western European archaeology. In Poland, since the first half of the twentieth century, finds of atypical or deviant burials have been almost exclusively interpreted as evidence for so-called 'anti-vampire' practices, intended to prevent the dead from rising, haunting and hurting the living. In the last decade or so, new attempts have been made, especially in the UK, to…
The Boar in the Symbolic and Religious System of Baltic Slavs in the Early Middle Ages Dzik w systemie symboliczno religijnym Słowian nadbałtyckich wczesnego średniowiecza
The starting point for the title problem is the passus in Thietmar’s of Merseburg Chronicle related to Abodrit’s sedes idolatriae in Retra/Radogošč. This is one of the really few recorded myths associated with the symbolic perception of reality by the Baltic Slavs or the western Slavs in general. This myth, i.a. certifies a supernatural perception of the wild boar as an animal associated with the chthonic world (underworld). However, it seems tha…
Die heiligen Wälder der Slawen in Pommern im frühen Mittelalter
Jak Historia Badań Nad Religią Słowian Może Stać Się Historią Rozczarowań – O Poszukiwaniu Rzeczywistości Mitycznej I… Etyce Badacza. Uwagi Na Temat Książki Pawła Szczepanika Rzeczywistości Mityczna S…
Jak historia badań nad religią Słowian może stać się historią rozczarowań
Vampires, criminals or slaves? Reinterpreting 'deviant burials' in early medieval Poland
Unusual funerary behaviour is now an exciting area of research in Central and Western European archaeology. In Poland, since the first half of the twentieth century, finds of atypical or deviant burials have been almost exclusively interpreted as evidence for so-called 'anti-vampire' practices, intended to prevent the dead from rising, haunting and hurting the living. In the last decade or so, new attempts have been made, especially in the UK, to…
The Boar in the Symbolic and Religious System of Baltic Slavs in the Early Middle Ages Dzik w systemie symboliczno religijnym Słowian nadbałtyckich wczesnego średniowiecza
The starting point for the title problem is the passus in Thietmar’s of Merseburg Chronicle related to Abodrit’s sedes idolatriae in Retra/Radogošč. This is one of the really few recorded myths associated with the symbolic perception of reality by the Baltic Slavs or the western Slavs in general. This myth, i.a. certifies a supernatural perception of the wild boar as an animal associated with the chthonic world (underworld). However, it seems tha…
Slavs and Snakes
This article offers a new perspective on a diverse corpus of high-status Western Slavic objects from the domain of the Piast dynasty in Poland, dated between the tenth and eleventh centuries ad . It is proposed that the lavish zoomorphic decorations, often depicting snakes, found on jewellery, weapons, and equestrian equipment reflected Western Slavic pre-Christian religious ideas and served as material markers of elite identity. The results of t…
Slavic Journeys to the Otherworld. Remarks on the Eschatology of Early Medieval Pomeranians Słowiańskie wędrówki w zaświaty. Kilka uwag na temat eschatologii wczesnośredniowiecznych Pomorzan
Many obstacles appear in attempts at explore and reconstruct the pagan rituals and beliefs of early medieval Pomeranians. This is not only due to the lack of written accounts referring to such practices, but also because of the various problems with unravelling the meaning and content of the archaeological evidence. Today, it is often difficult to determine how certain places or objects were perceived by past societies and with what symbolism the…
Jak Historia Badań Nad Religią Słowian Może Stać Się Historią Rozczarowań – O Poszukiwaniu Rzeczywistości Mitycznej I… Etyce Badacza. Uwagi Na Temat Książki Pawła Szczepanika Rzeczywistości Mityczna S…
Jak historia badań nad religią Słowian może stać się historią rozczarowań
Die heiligen Wälder der Slawen in Pommern im frühen Mittelalter
The Boar in the Symbolic and Religious System of Baltic Slavs in the Early Middle Ages Dzik w systemie symboliczno religijnym Słowian nadbałtyckich wczesnego średniowiecza
The starting point for the title problem is the passus in Thietmar’s of Merseburg Chronicle related to Abodrit’s sedes idolatriae in Retra/Radogošč. This is one of the really few recorded myths associated with the symbolic perception of reality by the Baltic Slavs or the western Slavs in general. This myth, i.a. certifies a supernatural perception of the wild boar as an animal associated with the chthonic world (underworld). However, it seems tha…
The Multi-faced So-called Miniature Idols from the Baltic Sea Area Wielotwarzowe miniaturowe idole z basenu Morza Bałtyckiego
The aim of this text is to present early medieval miniature figurines discovered in the Baltic Sea region. The authors review interpretations of this archaeological finds from literature and offer a new perspective for their functions. The next problem dealt with is the ethno-cultural membership of the users of the objects.We would consider those figurines as symbols or perhaps fetishes referring to a particular sacral power, perhaps associated w…
Vampires, criminals or slaves? Reinterpreting 'deviant burials' in early medieval Poland
Unusual funerary behaviour is now an exciting area of research in Central and Western European archaeology. In Poland, since the first half of the twentieth century, finds of atypical or deviant burials have been almost exclusively interpreted as evidence for so-called 'anti-vampire' practices, intended to prevent the dead from rising, haunting and hurting the living. In the last decade or so, new attempts have been made, especially in the UK, to…
Znaczenie odciętych głów w obrzędowości pogańskiej wczesnośredniowiecznych Słowian zachodnich The Meaning of Severed Heads in Ritualism of Early Medieval Western Slavs
The author of this paper analyses the sources of the early medieval Western Slavs that point to the existence of the beliefs that connected heads with the essence of the life – the spirit/soul, and considered the head as the most important part of the human body, also possessing a mediatory nature. The head was believed to encompass the most significant aspects of human personality and individual skills. It could also have had supernatural qualit…
Slavic Journeys to the Otherworld. Remarks on the Eschatology of Early Medieval Pomeranians Słowiańskie wędrówki w zaświaty. Kilka uwag na temat eschatologii wczesnośredniowiecznych Pomorzan
Many obstacles appear in attempts at explore and reconstruct the pagan rituals and beliefs of early medieval Pomeranians. This is not only due to the lack of written accounts referring to such practices, but also because of the various problems with unravelling the meaning and content of the archaeological evidence. Today, it is often difficult to determine how certain places or objects were perceived by past societies and with what symbolism the…
Islands as Symbolic Centres of the Early Medieval Settlement Patterns in Middle Pomerania (Northern Poland) Wyspy jako symboliczne centra wczesnośredniowiecznych mikroregionów osadniczych Pomorza środ…
Islands have played a significant role in the region of Pomerania. Isolated from the rest of the landscape, islands appealed to the human psyche in a highly distinct way. Because of their geographic isolation, they allowed their inhabitants to develop relations of a transcendental character. According to scholars of religion, when people searched for a place of settlement, they looked, above all, for a specific, unique area. In a symbolic sense, …
Water in Pre-Christian Beliefs in Pomerania (Northern Poland) of the Early Medieval Period Woda w przedchrześcijańskich wierzeniach na wczesnośredniowiecznym Pomorzu (północna Polska)
Based on written sources and archaeological evidence, ethnographic and linguistic material, and the knowledge of the rest of Slavonic-occupied regions, the authors research early medieval Pomeranian communities in which water played a significant role. Water, as a life-providing element on the one hand, and a destructive element on the other, was not only essential for the economy, but also indispensably carried symbolic meaning and played an imp…
Zagadnienie tzw. grodów kultowych na wczesnośredniowiecznym Pomorzu
Zasadniczym problemem badawczym, jakim poświęcono prezentowane uwagi, jest zagadnienievidentyfikacji i obecności na Pomorzu struktur osadniczych określanych w literaturze archeologicznej jako grody kultowe. Charakterystyce poddano cechy konstrukcyjne oraz zarejestrowane w obszarach zamkniętych pierścieniem wałów źródła wykopaliskowe mogące podważać osadnicze i/lub militarne przeznaczenie grodów. Do tych ostatnich zaliczono słabo czytelną warstwę …
Myth in Action? Figurative Images on Ceramics as a Source for Studying the Pre-Christian Beliefs of Western Slavs
The spiritual culture of Western Slavs is becoming an increasingly prominent research field in archaeology. The dynamic growth of material evidence allows archaeologists not only to expand the corpus of evidence used in their work but also to formulate new hypotheses that broaden the current state of knowledge, as well as to develop new research trajectories. The study of relics of cult-places and the material remains of ritual ceremonies play a …
Slavs and Snakes
This article offers a new perspective on a diverse corpus of high-status Western Slavic objects from the domain of the Piast dynasty in Poland, dated between the tenth and eleventh centuries ad . It is proposed that the lavish zoomorphic decorations, often depicting snakes, found on jewellery, weapons, and equestrian equipment reflected Western Slavic pre-Christian religious ideas and served as material markers of elite identity. The results of t…
Kryzys Monarchi Piastowskiej” I Problem Tzw. Reakcji Pogańskiej Okiem Archeologa
The turmoil of the 1030s in the Polish territory has so far attracted attention of historians. A detailed analysis of the information available in the written sources has strengthened a position in the result of which (in line with the reference to the events in question) the pagan backlash was to stem primarily from religious reasons. This interpretations suggests and provokes reception of Mieszko II’s domain as a completely Christian organisati…
Maski z Opola w kontekście obrzędowości średniowiecznych Słowian
Nadrzędnym celem artykułu jest analiza podstaw źródłowych oraz interpretacyjnych dotyczących tzw. masek z Opola. Przedmioty te na stałe weszły do studiów nad religią przedchrześcijańską Słowian Zachodnich, szybko osiągając status ikonicznych. Tym, co wzbudza zaskoczenie, jest widoczna w literaturze, w zasadzie bezkrytyczna akceptacja identyfikacji obu omawianych przedmiotów, jaką ponad półwiecze temu zaproponowała Helena Cehak-Hołubowiczowa. Żade…
Źdźbło w oku bliźniego widzisz, a belki w swoim nie dostrzegasz” (MAT. 7
Niedugo po opublikowaniu recenzji omawiajcej ksik Pawa Szczepanika dotara do mnie wiadomo, e zdecydowa si on podj polemik z postawionymi w niej uwagami. Wyczekiwaem tej odpowiedzi, liczc, e znajd w niej treci podparte refleksjami podlegajcymi prawidom dyskusji naukowej. Tak si niestety nie stao, a zamiast repliki omawiajcej stawiane zarzuty znajdzie tu Czytelnik bezpardonowy atak peen trudnych do ukrycia emocji i ali wylewanych na osob recenzenta…
Po co archeologom archeologia? Raz jeszcze o „maskach” z Opola
Prezentowane wystąpienie jest odpowiedzią na uwagi P. Szczepanika wyartykułowane w stosunku do opublikowanego w poprzednim tomie „Archeologii Polski” tekstu mojego autorstwa pt. Maski z Opola w kontekście obrzędowości średniowiecznych Słowian. Ze względu na treść uwag polemicznych, dyskusji poddane zostały przede wszystkim zastosowane w nim metody badawcze oraz umiejętność pracy na materiale źródłowym obrazujące spore wątpliwości dotyczące zarówn…
Odcięte stopy, odpiłowane kopyta… W kręgu rozważań nad metodami badań archeologicznych śladów obrzędowości funeralnej dawnych Słowian
The research potential of archaeology in investigating ancient religiosity remains a topic of enduring debate involving both proponents, sceptics and (hyper)critics of the validity of such an approach. The result of this discourse is the emergence of a separate research discipline: archaeology of religions. It has developed its own technique to better understand and interpret traces of ritual practices. However, the research methods used by archa…
Historical and Archaeological Studies (15 works) · Philosophy (11 works) · Ancient and Medieval Archaeology Studies (10 works) · History (10 works) · History (9 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · Ancient history (7 works) · Archaeology (7 works) · Linguistics and language evolution (7 works) · Theology (7 works)