TRAJEKTORIE RELACJI POLSKIEJ ETNOLOGII I ANTROPOLOGII Z NAUKĄ ŚWIATOWĄ
TRAJECTORIES OF THE RELATIONSHIP OF POLISH ETHNOLOGY/ANTHROPOLOGY AND WORLD SCIENCE

Summary/Abstract: The relationship with world science, its connections and location on the international map of the discipline is a recurring theme in Polish ethnology and anthropology. The article suggests that the problem of cooperation between the Polish variant of the discipline called anthropology and world science results from the gap in contacts caused by World War II and its geopolitical consequences. In the region of Central and Eastern Europe, science was dominated by the Soviet model and, for a long time, remained isolated from the outside world. Before this period, ethnologists were cosmopolitan researchers, but after the war, they became largely separated from the world. The situation improved during the period of late socialism, although insufficiently. In a sense, the last three decades are a return to the situation from before 1938. The inclusion of Polish science into the bloodstream of „world anthropologies” is, after all, a complicated process influenced, besides other factors, by the stigmatizing hierarchies of global knowledge.

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