Dziedzictwo, pamięć, ciągłość
Heritage, Memory, Continuity

Summary/Abstract: Kazimiera Zawistowicz-Adamska was the first Polish field researcher to adopt the principle of treating her interviewees as individual subjects. Her book Społeczność wiejska [The Rural Community] not only constitutes an eloquent proof of her excellent research skills, but also contains a vital ethical stratum. Zawistowicz-Adamska was one of the first scholars to highlight the importance of the situational research context. This approach was adopted also by her disciple, Bronisława Kopczyńska-Jaworska, even though her research, being conducted in the period of the People’s Republic of Poland, was acutely constrained by the policies of the ruling party, especially with respect to the selection of questions she could ask her interviewees; years later she frankly wrote about this aspect of her work. The author emphasises the fact that now, decades later, blank pages in the history of our fieldwork are still being discovered, and we come to appreciate the importance of continuity in scholarship and the value of maintaining links without intellectual ancestors.

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