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New Polish Anthropology

Janusz Baranski ; Jagiellonian University, Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, Krakow, Poland


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Abstract

Despite the fact that anthropology in Poland faces the same crisis as anthropology worldwide, namely, the disappearance of the traditional subjects of interest, it still maintains, a unique theoretical and methodological perspective, the main points of which are: holism, qualitative methods, methodical skepticism and a focus on the primacy of culture. This approach also appears to be useful in doing research on complex modern cultures. In its shift from the more traditional to more modern subjects of interest, Polish anthropological research has focused on national identity, popular culture, subcultures, consumer culture, and lifestyle, among others.

Keywords

ethnology/cultural anthropology; crisis; tradition; modernity; theory; methodology; cultural studies

Hrčak ID:

29455

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/29455

Publication date:

4.12.2008.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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