A JOURNEY TO PRZEMYŚL THANKS TO EUROPEAN ACADEMIA
A JOURNEY TO PRZEMYŚL THANKS TO EUROPEAN ACADEMIA

Summary/Abstract: In this reflection I wish to discuss how my professional career was shaped by fieldwork in Poland and what the conditions were that allowed me to benefit – along with other East Central European anthropologists of my generation – from European integration. I believe the generation of academics born in 1970s has benefited greatly from the post-socialist changes and contributed to the more cosmopolitan profile of their respective national traditions. An important element of the development of this profile was collaboration and exchange across Europe, not least between neighboring national academic settings. I think the relatively successful synthesis of national tradition with Western theoretical debates that have proliferated Eastern Europe after socialism has been particularly achieved in Polish anthropology and ethnology.

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