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Kazimiera Zawistowicz-Adamska jako pierwsza wśród polskich badaczy terenowych przyjęła zasadę uznania swoich informatorów za indywidualne podmioty. Jej książka Społeczność wiejska jest dowodem nie tylko doskonałego warsztatu, ale także zawiera istotną warstwę etyczną. Jako jedna z pierwszych podkreślała znaczenie badawczego kontekstu sytuacyjnego. Taką postawę badawczą kontynuowała jej uczennica –...
Wydanie we Lwowie przez Polskie Towarzystwo Ludoznawcze w 1895 roku pierwszego tomu Ludu faktycznie pełniącego funkcję czasopisma ogólnokrajowego, było wielkim wydarzeniem. To ZWAK, Wisła i właśnie Lud, dzięki ruchliwości swoich twórców i ich rozległych krajowych oraz światowych kontaktach, mogły w podzielonym przez zaborców kraju stanowić forum wymiany myśli, przedstawiania w całości dorobku etnologów,...
This paper addresses the influence of a research method on the identity of anthropology as a discipline. Usingmy own academic biography as a point of departure, Iwould like to situate this issue in a wide historical perspective in order to show that its contemporary definitions have emerged from questions already present in the discipline’s past concerns. This paper suggests that deliberations on...
The concept of primitive society was an anthropological response to theories by Darwin and Lyell as well as archeological studies of Paleolithic cultures. It also resulted from the 19th century search for the source of human cultural diversity and the issue of equality vis-à-vis diversity of human cultures. The concept of primitive society covered also uncivilized strata of civilized societies, i...
Already in the 1980s, the academic circles – as if predicting the changes about to happen and supported by more radical freedom movements – were studying European affairs in various centres and in various forms. In 1985, a team of professors from the University of Warsaw put forward a proposal of studies on European culture under the so-called ‘ministry problem’. Initially, the project entitled ‘Foundations...
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