Tożsamość regionalna a postrzeganie świata. Paul Joachim Schebesta – niestrudzony badacz ludów niskorosłych
Regional Identity and the Perception of the World. Paul Joachim Schebesta – a Tireless Researcher of Short-statured Peoples

Summary/Abstract: The author of the article inquires how regional identity affects a person’s perception of the world. The subject of his reflection is the figure of Paul Schebesta, a monk and a missionary, a researcher of short-statured peoples. Schebesta belonged to the group of Wilhelm Schmit’s collaborators as part of the Anthropos Institute. The first part of the article presents the context of Schebesta’s origin, namely, a village inhabited by people speaking the Moravian language and with strong Catholic roots. The next part focuses on the ethnologist’s biography. The third part points out some advantages and disadvantages resulting from Schebesta’s regional identity, which influenced his process of perceiving the world. A short fragment is also devoted to the exhibition organized on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the ethnologist’s death. The author, referring to the words of Johannes Fabian, admits that “in the epistemological sense, autobiography is the core of ethnography”

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