Historia i kultura – problemy antropologii kulturowej i antropologii historycznej
History and Culture – the Problems of Cultural Anthropology and Historical Anthropology

Summary/Abstract: Every socio-cultural order constructs history in its own way. Such history is always the outcome of a semiotic transformation of the past in texts of culture. Historical knowledge becomes rendered inedible in assorted ways and in multiple forms of culture. The latter is a form of an articulation of the world, but also a programme of conduct, a ”semiotic network” determining the sequence of events and their results in practical life. The recreation of culture, especially its maximum symbolic forms: the myth and the ritual, sets history into motion. The events, persons and things that constitute it must be treated as significant structures, referring to the model of the world binding in a given tradition (together with its assessment of time and space, chronology, casuistic, etc.) so that they could be regarded as sensible and purposeful. Are such theories of the history of culture acceptable for historians seeking in ethnology and socio-cultural anthropology solutions for their problems?

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