POSTMODERNISTYCZNE OTWARCIE W POLSKIEJ ANTROPOLOGII SPOŁECZNO-KULTUROWEJ. PROJEKT URZECZYWISTNIONY?
THE POSTMODERN OPENING IN POLISH SOCIO-CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY. A PROJECT REALISED?

Summary/Abstract: The aim of this paper is attempt to show the postmodern opening in the Polish ethnology. On the one hand, the text shows that the character of “Polish” postmodernism was shaped over the course of the accelerated reception of theory and concepts formulated in international anthropology two decades earlier. On the other hand, the article stresses that postmodernism – understood as a condition of socio-cultural reality, but also as a general context of the trends and currents of thought arising from the criticism of negatively valued modernism – sharpened and delineated intuitions and trends, as well as existing theories. This postmodern opening, which took place in anthropology at the ontological, epistemological and meta-discursive levels, covered not only the anthropological literature, but also had an impact on the rethinking of field research and on the related research practices. This was also an important stimulus for “self-reporting” in anthropology, which proved to be a significant development not only for increasing the self-awareness of researchers, but also for redefining their proposed cognition.

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