2012, No. 1 (2), Anthropology / history of the Contemporary World

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Editorial

Rafał Kleśta-Nawrocki, Wojciech Piasek, Towards An Antropological History of the Contemporary World

Studies and Dissertations

Paweł Łuczeczko, Anthropology of the Contemporary in Poland. Origin, Development, Prospects
Waldemar Kuligowski, A Study of Tattoo on the Basis of the Magdeburg Rights. Anthropology of the Contemporary in Relation to History
Marcin Brocki, Anthropology and History in the Face of Mythicising the Past
Marcin Napiórkowski, In Defence of Ordon’s Redoubt. History and Myths
Misgav Har-Peled, Decolonising Western History. Political Sources of Historical Anthropology
Rafał Kleśta-Nawrocki, History: Democracy and Contemporary Times
Tiiu Jaago, Ene Kõresaar, (Re)constructing Conflict and Dialogue in Soviet Estonia and Post-Soviet Estonia: on Multivocality in Understanding of History
Tadeusz Czekalski, (No)Memory of Communism. The Albanian Case
Dobrochna Kałwa, On the Peripheries of the Peripheries? Everyday Life in the People’s Republic of Poland in Historiography – a Review of Research Work
Barbara Klich-Kluczewska, The Case of Maria from the Area of Bochnia. An Attempt at a Micro-Historical Analysis of an Abortion Court Case from 1949
Marcin Stasiak, Between Disability and Normalcy. An Individual Model of Disability in Poland in the 1950s and 1960s as Illustrated by the Example of People Disabled by Polio
Ewelina Szpak, The Concept of Health, Illness and Physicality in the Rural Perception of the World after 1945, or on Changes in Mentality in Polish Rural Areas
Leena Rossi, Ordinary Man’s Everyday Places

Reprints and Archives

Wojciech Wrzosek, A Contribution to the Problem of Truth in the Recent History
Dariusz Jarosz, Historiography of the Social History of Poland in the 20th Century after 1989: Research Perspectives and Means, Methodology

Debates and Polemics

Natalia Aleksiun, Błażej Brzostek, Tomasz Chinciński, Jacek Dębicki, Anna Muller, Daniel Wojtucki, Marta Kurkowska-Budzan, Michał Januszkiewicz, Wojciech Kucharski, Anna Kurpiel, Paweł Sowiński, Ethics in Examining the Past

Reviews

Michał Mokrzan, What Is It That We Call the Humanities After the Ethical and Political Turn (The Humanities and Domination. Grassroots Social Experience from the Viewpoint of External Examination, ed. T. Rakowski, A. Malewska-Szałygin)
Anna Zalewska, On Establishing Meanings, Historical Sensitivity and Historical Awareness at the Moments of Happening (I. Skórzyńska, Shows of the Past. Alternative Policies of Memory 1989-2009)
Katarzyna Majbroda, Fieldwork as (Not Only) Book-Learned Fact, (Field in Anthropology. Research Practice in Contemporary Cultural Anthropology, ed. T. Buliński, M. Kairski)
Wojciech Piasek, Crime Novel as a Source of Anthropological Study of the Contemporary (Mariusz Czubaj, An Ethnologist in Sin City. Crime Novel as Anthropological Evidence)
Marta Kurkowska-Budzan, Lynn Abrams, Oral History Theory

Chronicle

Maciej Sawicki, Genealogies of Memory in Central and Eastern Europe: Theories and Methods
Adam F. Kola, The Humanities of the (Semi-)Peripheries
Monika Widzicka, History in Art. Museum of Contemporary Art in Kraków
Weronika Plińska, Ethnographic Conceptualism: Performing Methodological Experiments. Courtauld Institute of Art in London
Jerzy Jastrzębski, Piotr Kowalski (1952-2011) - rememberance
Mariusz Filip, Paweł Chyc, Neil Lancelot Whitehead (1956-2012) - Between Historical Anthropology and Political Anthropology