2012, No. 2 (3), Readings of the Past

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Editorial

Jacek Kowalewski, Paweł Żmudzki, Readings of the Past

Studies and Dissertations

Czesław Robotycki, Discussions about the Borderline of Cultural Anthropology and History Will Never End (and That Is the Point)
Roger Chartier, Text, Symbols and Frenchness
Robert Darnton, The Symbolic Element in History
Dominick LaCapra, Chartier, Darnton, and the Great Symbol Massacre
James Fernandez, Historians Tell Tales: Of Cartesian Cats and Gallic Cockfights
Zbigniew Libera, The Great Cat Massacre, Symbols and Historical Anthropology
Andrzej P. Kowalski, Symbols in History and the History of Symbols. On the Anthropological Interpretation of Historical Facts
Piotr Kowalski, Semiotics of Chronicles. Old Polish Chronicles as a Source in the History of Culture
Michał Tomaszek, Hungarians in Sankt Gallen in 926: A Narrative about Barbarians in Ekkehard IV’s Casus Sancti Galli
Przemysław Pazik, A Tale about the Suicide of a Knight from Chapter 26, Book III of the Polish Chronicle of Master Vincent

Reprints and Archives

Jacek Banaszkiewicz, The Legend of Lestek I the Goldsmith by Master Vincent, ‘The Polish Chronicle’ I 9, 11
Jacek Banaszkiewicz, ‘Coup d’etat in Gniezno,’ or Some Remarks on the Margins of the Book ‘The Legend of Piast and Popiel’

Debates and Polemics

Jacek Banaszkiewicz, Jacek Kowalewski, Paweł Żmudzki, Magister ludi – a conversation with Professor Jacek Banaszkiewicz
Philippe Minard et al., History and Anthropology: New Convergences? A Debate organised by the Société d’histoire moderne et contemporaine

Reviews

Czesław Robotycki, Wojciech Piasek’s Project of Practising Anthropology in History (W. Piasek, History as Local Knowledge. An ‘Anthropological Shift’ in the Research on the Historiography of the People’s Republic of Poland)
Tomasz Pawelec, Anthropology of Culture in the Procedures and Methods of A Historian of Historiography (W. Piasek, History as Local Knowledge. An ‘Anthropological Shift’ in the Research on the Historiography of the People’s Republic of Poland)
Jarema Drozdowicz, A Triumph of Nature over Culture? Franz Boas and His ‘The Mind of Primitive Man’ in a Historical Perspective (F. Boas, ‘The Mind of Primitive Man’)
Paweł Żmudzki, J. Banaszkiewicz, Some Trifling Medieval Fables
Jacek Kowalewski, M. Mazurek, Anthropology of Shortage in the German Democratic Republic and the People's Republic of Poland 1971–1989

Chronicle

Marcin Kafar, Autobiography – Biography – Narration. Biographical Perspectives in Research Practice
Michał Mokrzan, Claude Levi-Strauss in the Academic Discourse. Inspirations, Reception, Critique
Filip Skowron, A Hunt For the Avante-garde. Forbidden Art in the Third Reich. Gallery of the International Cultural Centre in Krakow