- Instytut Historii,
Uniwersytet Warmińsko-Mazurski w Olsztynie,
ul. K. Obitza 1,
10-725 Olsztyn
Poland
Jacek Kowalewski
University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, History, Department Member
- Editor in Chief of Anthropology of History Yearbook (Rocznik Antropologii Historii) http://www.rah.pth.net.pl/edit
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The Book “Practicing memory” is more of a research report than a closed scientific work that marks the end of the research. The reflections presented in the work are not so much a definitive description of the ways of practicing memory in... more
The Book “Practicing memory” is more of a research report than a closed scientific work that marks the end of the research. The reflections presented in the work are not so much a definitive description of the ways of practicing memory in Olsztyn, but rather a thought construction built on research material, and at the same time a proposal to study and interpret such phenomena and processes. This position results from the belief shared by us that both the city and memory are dynamic cultural realities, constantly emerging in the process of reconfiguration of ready and available semantic elements that are constantly produced, transformed, and used by city residents, including memory depositors, and therefore simply practiced. The anthropological perspective used in the publication consists of examining cultural meanings, key concepts and practices related to memory, and the city as created, used, owned, and articulated by the surveyed entities, in this case, the inhabitants of Olsztyn. Due to the perspective used and the source-based method chosen and dominant in this work, which is ethnographic field research, this book can be treated as an anthropological reconnaissance in the cultural world of Olsztyn's memory practitioners.Książkę „Praktykowanie pamięci” traktujemy bardziej jako raport z badań niż domknięte dzieło naukowe wyznaczające kres poszukiwań. Zaprezentowane w niej przemyślenia są zatem nie tyle ostatecznym opisem dookreślającym sposoby praktykowania pamięci w Olsztynie, ile raczej zbudowaną na materiale badawczym myślową konstrukcją, a zarazem propozycją badania i interpretowania tego rodzaju zjawisk i procesów. Stanowisko takie wynika z podzielanego przez nas przeświadczenia, że zarówno miasto, jak i pamięć są dynamicznymi realnościami kulturowymi, tworzącymi się nieustannie na nowo w procesie rekonfiguracji gotowych i dostępnych elementów znaczeniowych, które przez mieszkańców miasta, w tym depozytariuszy pamięci, są nieustannie wytwarzane, przekształcane i wykorzystywane, a więc po prostu: praktykowane. Zastosowana w publikacji perspektywa antropologiczna polega na badaniu znaczeń kulturowych, kluczowych pojęć i praktyk związanych z pamięcią i miastem, jako tworzonych, używanych, posiadanych i artykułowanych przez badane podmioty, w tym przypadku mieszkańców Olsztyna. Z racji zastosowanej perspektywy oraz obranej i dominującej w tej pracy metody źródłotwórczej, jaką są etnograficzne badania terenowe, niniejsza książka może być traktowana jako antropologiczny rekonesans w kulturowym świecie olsztyńskich praktyków pamięci
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A shortened and revised version of the previously published article entitled "Cultural anthropology and archeology: ethnoarchaeology in Toruń" (Anthropology of History Yearbook, 2016, R. VI (9), pp. 349-387).
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The prime objective of the article is to reconstruct basic assumptions that accompany the historical anthropology practiced by Piotr Kowalski. The last decade of Kowalski’s work is dominated by that type of studies and therefore they form... more
The prime objective of the article is to reconstruct basic assumptions that accompany the historical anthropology practiced by Piotr Kowalski. The last decade of Kowalski’s work is dominated by that type of studies and therefore they form a conceptionally mature construct that combines lifetime experience of that culture researcher. At first, when entering the field of historical anthropology, Kowalski referred to the textbook patterns of studies conducted abroad. However, it was not long that he proposed his own understanding of research problems in the history of culture. He refers to the category of colloquial thinking schemes and the vision of culture as a structured semiotic chaos. His rejection of the culture viewed as a coherent and organized whole dynamizes the model of historical culture that he accepts. What makes one of the expressions of that trend is the accepting the situational definition of cultural experience and organization of the world. In the last years before his death, Piotr Kowalski applies a multi-variant research model, in which philological, folkloristic, and anthropological competences are originally included into the task of identifying alien historical re-constructed worlds. His final image of the research method or a bundle of research methods reflects the motives crucial for his studies, mostly in the sphere of the tension between the standing and the change, repeatability and dynamization, as well as individualization of reading the world in historical cultures. The subject of his last studies is formed by the civilizational process, understood in its widest scope, happening in the space of cultural constructs, and watched by a researcher in the micro- and macroscale at the same time. What makes a crucial historical source for the research presented in that way is a narrative text.
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The text presents an analysis of the theoretical foundations of the book by Marta Kurkowska-Budzan and Marcin Stasiak "Stadium on the periphery". The use of elements of well-established theory in the design of the indicated research is... more
The text presents an analysis of the theoretical foundations of the book by Marta Kurkowska-Budzan and Marcin Stasiak "Stadium on the periphery". The use of elements of well-established theory in the design of the indicated research is discussed in detail and - at a later stage - in building a specific historical narrative. The values of binding the theory of social sciences to the interpretation practice of modern historiography are emphasized.
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W 2016 roku w Instytucie Archeologii Uniwersytetu Mikołaja Kopernika w Toruniu obchodzono jubileusz powstania trzech instytucji, z korzeni których wyrosła dzisiejsza toruńska archeologia akademicka: 80lecie opublikowania przez Instytut... more
W 2016 roku w Instytucie Archeologii Uniwersytetu Mikołaja Kopernika w Toruniu obchodzono jubileusz powstania trzech instytucji, z korzeni których wyrosła dzisiejsza toruńska archeologia akademicka: 80lecie opublikowania przez Instytut Bałtycki założeń do programu badań prehistorycznych; 70lecie powołania do życia Zakładu Prehistorii UMK oraz 40lecie powstania Instytutu Archeologii i Etnografii UMK. Z bogatych dziejów toruńskiej archeologii na łamach " Rocznika Antropologii Historii " warto przypomnieć historię powołania etnoarcheologii, specjalności wprowadzonej do programu studiów archeologicz nych na początku lat 90. ubiegłego wieku. Wydarzenie to przykuwa uwagę nie tylko oryginalnością zaproponowanej w tym kształcie formuły humanistycznej edukacji adeptów prahistorii, ale również okolicznościami jego narodzin. Kulisy powstania specjalności wiążą się bowiem bezpośrednio z wpływami wywieranymi na grupę młodych toruńskich archeologów przez środowisko szkoły Nowej Etnologii Polskiej, pokolenie etnografów, które w ciągu lat 80. XX wieku przekształciło swą dyscyplinę w nowoczesną antropologię kulturową 1. Wobec nikłej liczby oficjalnie zachowanych dokumentów odtworzenie dziejów toruńskiej etnoarcheologii wymagało sięgnięcia do zapisów studenckich indeksów, spisów absolwentów oraz przetrwałych do dnia dzisiejszego prywatnych notatek i maszynopisów. Najważniejsze fakty zrekonstruowano na podstawie wspomnień pomysłodawców, animatorów lub uczestników zajmujących nas wydarzeń – obecnych lub byłych pracowników naukowych UMK
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The article is focus on ways of use a cultural representations of illness in contest of Polish political parties. Category of illness is considered as a mean of discreditation of adversaries in medial representation of political contest.... more
The article is focus on ways of use a cultural representations of illness in contest of Polish political parties. Category of illness is considered as a mean of discreditation of adversaries in medial representation of political contest. The article is based on two detailed case studies. In conlusion author claims that there is no permanent cultural meanings of illness in the context of political debate. All time the political goals determine it’s current cultural denotations.
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In the opinion of many scholars working in the field of so-called “anthropology of the contemporary,” there is a deep conviction that historical knowledge is redundant in solving the problems with which their discipline is concerned. As a... more
In the opinion of many scholars working in the field of so-called “anthropology of the contemporary,” there is a deep conviction that historical knowledge is redundant in solving the problems with which their discipline is concerned.
As a result, anthropology is shown in opposition to historical studies, or even historicity. The author disagrees with this opinion, claiming that it requires a thorough review. Citing the findings of Claude Lévi-Strauss, he shows a dual historicity of the area in question, which is revealed both in the features of ethnographic practices and ethnological studies. He concludes that historicity is an immanent element of the research optics of cultural anthropology, inherent to the fundamental, although today often forgotten, ultimate goal of this discipline.
As a result, anthropology is shown in opposition to historical studies, or even historicity. The author disagrees with this opinion, claiming that it requires a thorough review. Citing the findings of Claude Lévi-Strauss, he shows a dual historicity of the area in question, which is revealed both in the features of ethnographic practices and ethnological studies. He concludes that historicity is an immanent element of the research optics of cultural anthropology, inherent to the fundamental, although today often forgotten, ultimate goal of this discipline.
Research Interests: Cultural History, Ethnohistory, Anthropology, Historical Anthropology, Social Anthropology, and 10 moreEthnography, Social and Cultural Anthropology, Cultural Theory, Ethnology, Cultural Anthropology, Historical Methodology, Sociological and anthropological theory, Anthropological Theory, Anthropologie Sociale Et Culturelle, and Anthropological Debates
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Research Interests: Cultural History, Economic History, Social and Cultural Anthropology, Economic Anthropology, Gift Exchange, and 7 moreNumismatics, Cultural Anthropology, Cultural Exchange, Early medieval numismatics, Anthropology of Money, Medieval numismatics, and Archaeology, Historical Archaeology. Medieval Archaeology, Anthropology, Social Identities, Material Culture, Artefact Studies, Diaspora Studies, Trade and Exchange
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Recenzja książki Marii Korybut-Marciniak, Światy i międzyświaty Artura Dolińskiego. Rekonstrukcja biograficzna carskiego urzędnika, Olsztyn 2019, ss. 355.