Antropologia społeczno-kulturowa w Polsce dzisiaj – dziedzictwo, teraźniejszość, wyzwania i strategie na przyszłość. Wokół ankiety antropologicznej
Socio-Cultural Anthropology in Poland Today: Heritage, Present Challenges, and Strategies for the Future. Around an Anthropological Survey

Summary/Abstract: The considerations in this text concern the goals, methods, challenges, and research areas of sociocultural anthropology both today and in the future. The text is centered around an analysis of responses to a 2016 anthropological survey entitled, Etnografia – etnologia – antropologia kulturowa dzisiaj. Cele, zakresy i praktyki badawcze oraz wyzwania na przyszłość (Ethnography, Ethnology, and Cultural Anthropology Today: Goals, Scope, Research Practices, and Future Challenges). Survey responses clearly indicated participants’ opinion that anthropology should be a critical, cosmopolitan discipline that, in researching similarities between various sociocultural spaces, respects differences and does not essentialize. Future anthropology must be capable of reflective criticism of modern phenomena; a discipline whose imperative is to stimulate cultures, and to contribute to the creation of open societies through education. An important task facing subsequent generations of anthropologists is to unify the external image of the discipline in broadly defined social communication. This would help strengthen its social capital, which seems extremely important in terms of its goals and challenges.

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