Ethnography is a Practice of Semiotics (Example from Polish Ethnography of the 19th Century and Later) Cover Image

Etnografia jest praktykowaniem semiotyki (przykład z polskiej etnografii XIX wieku i później)
Ethnography is a Practice of Semiotics (Example from Polish Ethnography of the 19th Century and Later)

Author(s): Zbigniew Libera
Subject(s): Cultural history, Semiotics / Semiology, Customs / Folklore, Ethnohistory, 19th Century
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Keywords: ethnography; history; writing ethnography; ethnographic fieldwork; cultural semiotics;

Summary/Abstract: The article concerns the history of ethnography in Poland in the 19th century. This one illustrates that field research serves to validate theories, not to disprove them. Therefore, the article is divided into parts that relate to working in libraries, and then to searching for signs in the field for the concepts learned.

  • Issue Year: 49/2021
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 185-200
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: Polish