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Ethnographic museum as a way of speaking about other cultures. The case of Paris museums The article focuses on the history of ethnographic museums in Paris. Since 19th century there have been certain signifi cant changes in the way ethnographic objects were treated. In 1937 Museum of Man replaced Museum Trocadero and recently, in 2006 Jacques Chirac opened new ethnographic museum: du Quai Branly...
Inequalities and discrimination connected with gender. Woman at the job market The aim of this article is to put attention on a problem of women’s discrimination at the job market. The are different dimensions of unequal treatment of women at the work field. We can mention stereotypes of so called men and women occupations, or having lower salary for the same type of work. Gender determines also the...
On losing my closests. A contribution to personal ethnography The article – written in a form of a layered account – is an ethnographic document describing a particular existential situation of struggling with loss experienced by Marcin Kafar. Two liminal instants are taken into consideration, namely dying of the beloved Grandmother (suffering from cancer) and a sudden death of author’s Father. The...
Mud in Schools – Anthropology in Pedagogy The following issues are analysed in the article: are children from religious minorities noticed and correctly recognised in state schools (which according to L. Althusser are Ideological State Apparatus)? Does the recognition or misrecognition have an influence on the effectiveness of the educational process? Why did an author of the article, not a member...
Engaging anthropology. Lessons in the asylum field This article describes a personal encounter of practices of the state with asylum applicants. The author raises twofold questions: firstly, how is the preparation of ill-treatment of migrants maintained; and secondly, what kinds of policy-oriented work may anthropology offer. She concludes that there is need for a long-term ethnographic research conducted...
The issue of social exclusion in the context of European Union funds The article is based on Polish strategic governmental documents pointing at the main social problems needed to be solved immediately, which is considered as a crucial issue to economic growth and development supported by European Found. The presented anthropological perspective puts pressure on bureaucratic language used for description...
Engaged anthropologist. About the need of boundaries In this article, the author analyses the ethical and psychological consequences of connecting research with a social activity. Her analysis is based on her own studies. The first example is the research she conducted as a streetworker in the environment of street prostitutes. The second example is the research from the Centre for Crisis Intervention,...
Anthropology and human resources. Ethnologist in corporation Engaged Anthropology helps to redefi ne the entire discourse on the subject. It gives a possibility to go into a dialogue with the surrounding reality. The job market can be a right place for an Ethnologist. Institutions as well as employees need us to solve problems connected with cultural diff erences. It goes without saying that the knowledge...
The anthropologist on a myth. Thoughts on the research in Gdańsk Shipyard The article deliberates on the role of engaged anthropology in the context of an artistic critique, that concerns socially constructed myths about the „Solidarność” social movement. The text also takes up a subject of how betrayed the employees of the liquidated Gdańsk Shipyard feel, especially by Lech Wałęsa, as a symbolic...
Anthropology on a warpath. Wars and ethnic conflicts as a challenge for a modern ethnologist Anthropology on a warpath is not easy and has nothing to do with the appealing and charming exoticism. Rather than that, it is the immersing into the heart of darkness, which is safely thousands of kilometers away from us. In the last two decades, during their „under fire” research, anthropologists (ethnologists)...
Engaged art versus engaged anthropology. Thoughts on the research in Gdańsk Shipyard The article considers the role of engaged anthropology in the context of engaged art, as a critical comment on the changes in meaning of public space and the symbols connected with it. The studies are based on research, conducted among the participants of Artist Colony, which was established on Gdańsk Shipyard’s...
Anthropologist as a researcher or activist? There are a number of sub-disciplines of humanities and social sciences which represent a kind of „non-scientific”, engaged attitude to human being and culture, to name only a few: applied anthropology, action anthropology, public anthropology, cultural critique, cultural policy, cultural animation, socio-cultural animation. For the purpose of this presentation...
Engaged anthropology – between pragmatic choice and methodological proposition The article consists of two main parts. In first one, the author presents two causes that explain why the thought of „Anthropology engaged” emerged. The reasons refer to the structure of „postmodern reality”. Th e fi rst hypothesis, concerns the status of knowledge and refers to ideas of Jean François Lyotard. He assumed...
Ethnology? What do they teach you there? This paper analysis root causes of lack of engaged anthropology in Poland. The major ground of animosity to engage in work that is defined by the problems and not by the discipline author placed in history and „cognitive pessimism”. Author emphasized the need for generate/create new paradigm that will allow practicing of applied anthropology and engaged anthropology,...
Different voices of engagement: from ethnological enunciation to application of anthropological knowledge Since we now have many doubts about culture, especially because of its essentialization and reification, we have to rethink our position in speaking and writing about culture and our dealing with culture. Manifold responsibilities are important when we do engaged and applied ethnography in our...
About the humbugisation of anthropology The authors of the article assume that anthropology is constantly engaged. They wish to see research work and ethnographic transcript somewhere between the truth and fictional creation. As an alternative to anthropological studies and the trivialization of texts, they point out to a program of the discipline’s open humbugisation and its traces in the media displays...
Ethnography as a social activity/cultural animation The authors ponder on the category of engaged ethnographic research, as well as possible areas of using such studies in cultural animation. A clash between the field worker’s social co-existence (field) and the effort of an analytic approach to the described reality (desk), seems to be the crucial issue. To illustrate the matter, the authors present...
„Ostałówek. A common place” – an animation project inspired by ethnographic experiences The article is an overview of activities undertaken by means of cultural animation, based on previous deepened ethnographic research. It refers to the matter of using anthropology as an instrument to stimulate societies endangered with exclusion. Th e project „Ostałówek. A common place”, carried out in one of the...
Instead of an introduction. Microhistory with engagement in the background The essay describes the history and progress of a discussion concerning the issue of engaged anthropology in Poland. An overview of different opinions in this matter, allowed the author to distinguish two main orientations. The first one is connected with the debate among the anthropologists involved with the „(op.cit.,)” magazine...
Engage anthropology (?) Essay is an attempt to indicate that problems with the engage (involve, public) anthropology; is in fact a question about the usefulness of science in general. Author resume Raymond Firth’s and Robert Borofsky’s vision of engage anthropology. He adds main philosophical problems with usefulness category and mark valid historical moments when this category was been change. He...
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