Nauka na usługach polityki? Przypadek Józefa Obrębskiego
Research in the service of politics? The case of Józef Obrębski
Author(s): Anna EngelkingSubject(s): Social history, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, Interwar Period (1920 - 1939), Ethnic Minorities Studies
Published by: Instytut Slawistyki Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Keywords: Józef Obrębski; Bronisław Malinowski; Polesie; functionalism; ethnosociology; fieldwork; history of anthropology; science policy;
Summary/Abstract: The paper concentrates on the circumstances of the production of anthropological knowledge, created in a dynamic tension between its cognitive goal and the way it is used for political purposes. It provides an insight into a complex network of conditions (intelectual, institutional, financial, personal, political) which determined the production of knowledge in interwar Poland within the then emerging disciplines of ethnology and sociology, in the scope of what today we would call social anthropology. This case study takes a closer look at Polish anthropologist Józef Obrębski (1905-1967), a close student of Malinowski, whose outstanding achievements remained mostly unpublished and thus never came into existence in the master narrative of the history of our discipline. In the 1930s Obrębski conducted ethnosociological field research in the Polesie region
Journal: Sprawy Narodowościowe
- Issue Year: 2019
- Issue No: 51
- Page Range: 1-24
- Page Count: 24
- Language: Polish