Taktyka pogranicza w praktykach badawczych współczesnej antropologii kulturowej
The Borderland Tactic in the Research Praxis of Contemporary Cultural Anthropology

Summary/Abstract: The target of the educational project of contemporary anthropology is to devise cultural distance. Ethnographic praxis consists of training a follower not only within the range of becoming acquainted with taming “otherness” but, at the same time, a temporary “suspension” of one’s convictions and habits as a sui generis practical epoché – alienation from one’s culture. The effects of such dialogical experience stir reflection on own identity and its perception, similarly as one’s culture conceived as an historical and variable construction is subject to critique. Taming and alienation are two aspects of the same ethnographic praxis, indispensable for more profound studies on the borderland, as well as cultural phenomena of the post-industrial epoch in general.

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