Kulturowe podstawy osobowości. Zaproszenie do lektury
The Cultural Background of Personality. An invitation to reading

Author(s): Ewa Kosowska
Subject(s): Cultural Essay
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: Ralph Linton; The Cultural Background of Personality; history of anthropology; reception;
Summary/Abstract: The text The Cultural Background of Personality by Ralph Linton; considered as a specific kind of a message; interpreted in terms of methodical rather than methodological guidelines; nowadays seems to be a noteworthy starting point for understanding the processes that have taken place in cultural sciences in the previous decades. The reasons for marginalizing this proposal in Poland seem interesting as well; especially in the context of Linton’s reflection on ”why members of a given society accept or reject certain inventions”. Three issues will appear in the considerations presented: a fragmentary reconstruction of Linton’s argument taking into account the debts to then leading humanist concepts; the non-obvious Polish reception of his concepts and the potential embedded in his proposals; especially when it comes to the instruments that can be used in interdisciplinary research of historical and contemporary cultures.

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