Varia: Codzienność jako przedmiot badań. Malinowski i Geertz
Varia: Commonplaceness as an Object of Study. Malinowski and Geertz

Summary/Abstract: As a departure point the author of the essay treats Bronis³aw's Malinowski's claim that the successful ethnographic activity can only take place "in the field" i.e. while living together with the natives in their natural environment. Such perspective inevitably redefines the relation between theory and practice in anthropological studies and, by extension, points to the general methodology of cultural studies as such. The key prescription behind the latter is now the idea of participation which necessarily reduces the safe critical perspective not only between theory and practice but also between the researcher and the object of study. The analysis of commonplaceness, which can only take place through direct contact, becomes thus a vital stage in constructing the image of a culture in which particular instances constitute a network of functional relations.

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