„Dziennik w ścisłym znaczeniu tego wyrazu” Bolesława Malinowskiego i „Dziennik indyjski” Mircei Eliadego – próba analizy porównawczej
"A Diary in the strict sense of the term " by Boleslaw Malinowski and "The Indian Journal" by Mircea Eliade ‒ an attempt at a comparative analysis

Summary/Abstract: The essay Malinowski’s „A Diary in the strict sense of the term” and Eliade’s “The Indian Journal”: a comparative study deals with a comparison of two journals, written by the famous Polish-British ethnographer and the Romanian philosopher of religion. The study covers mainly two domains: construction of both texts, and cultural identity of their authors. Malinowski’s and Eliade’s journals are heterogenous texts, they are scientific notes and spiritual confessions at the same time and use many literary devices and novelistic conventions. Both authors are cultural hybrids, they are not able to identify completely neither with the dominating, white and European community, nor with the groups dominated politically and culturally, respectively the Triobraind Islanders and the Hindu people. According to the author, this fact is due to their Central-European origin, because both Polish and Romanian nations are situated in-between the West and the East and experienced a long political and cultural domination.

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