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2012, No. 1 (2), Anthropology / history of the Contemporary World
Waldemar Kuligowski
A Study of Tattoo on the Basis of the Magdeburg Rights. Anthropology of the Contemporary in Relation to History
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Keywords: cultural/social anthropology; history; common places; historical overrepresentation.
Abstract: Commenting on “anthropological history”; carries a high level of risk, as this orientation have already been discussed by numerous experts in both fields. Does it promise anything of significance to an anthropologist? With the help of ideas born within anthropology of contemporaneous world, I would like to verify whether there are places common to the history and to the achievements of cultural/social anthropology. Among the places common for Polish historians and Polish anthropologists are study of myth, nostalgia, memory, postsocialism and performances. On the other hand, I observe specific overrepresentation historical perspectives on many levels anthropological activity: in the field, in process of interpretation, and also in B.A., M. A., and PHD theses. From my point of view it is a expression of former structure in Polish academy and former relations between history and anthropology (central-peripheral, big-small, power-subordination etc.).
About Author:
WALDEMAR KULIGOWSKI - cultural anthropologist, associate professor at the Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology of the University of Adam Mickiewicz in Poznan.