Biograficzne spojrzenie na życie Bronisława Piłsudskiego oraz jego badania etnograficzne na Sachalinie

• Authors: Antoni Kuczyński

Title variants

EN

A biographical view on Bronisław Piłsudski and his ethnographic research on the Sakhalin

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

A biographical view on Bronisław Piłsudski and his ethnographic research on the Sakhalin The legacy of Bronisław Piłsudski (1866–1918) as a researcher studying the cultures of the Ainu, the Nivkh and the Orosk has been assessed by Japanese scholars (Koichi Inoue, Kazuhiko Sawada), Russian scholars (Vladislav Latishev) as well as Polish scholars (Antoni Kuczyński, Alfred Majewicz and Zbigniew Wójcik). In 1998 the prestigious scholarly publishing house Mouton de Gruyter (Berlin-New York) began to publish a series, planned for 10 volumes, entitled The Collected Works of Bronisław Piłsudski. Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk (Russia) hosts the B. Piłsudski Legacy I nstitute, which since 1998 has been publishing its annual journal; an interesting study entitled A Critical Biography of Bronisław Piłsudski (vols. 1–2, ed. Kazuhiko Sawada, Koichi Inoue, Saitana 2010) has been published in Japan. In addition, B. Piłsudski’s scholarly legacy has been examined in many articles devoted to culture, language as well as historical and social matters, usually following international conferences (held in Japan, Poland and Russia), articles which significantly complement Piłsudki’s biography and scholarly legacy. The variety of Piłsudki’s ethnographic interests is the subject of the present article, which explores the complicated life of this Siberian exile, humanist and ethnographer, to which new facts are added again and again. The article contains information about all stages of his biography as well as the reception of his works in international anthropological-cultural studies dealing with the culture of the indigenous peoples of Sakhalin and the so-called Amurian Pomerania. However, the author of the article focuses not only on B. Piłsudski’s scholarly legacy. He also provides the readers with new information about Piłsudski’s family life, records his successes and failures, filling the existing gaps in his biography. The article expands our knowledge of B. Piłsudski’s life and of his ethnographic research on the Sakhalin; it also presents various commemorative signs associated with him: symbolic grave in a cemetery in Zakopane, a monument on the Sakhalin, a commemorative plaque, portraits, coins with his image minted by the National Bank of Poland, films, correspondence cards, stamps, geographic names etc. The article is an orderly presentation of material concerning B. Piłsudski’s biography as well as his ethnographic studies on the Sakhalin and their reception in cultural anthropology. Translated by Anna Kijak

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Wroclawskiego
• Journal: Wrocławskie Studia Wschodnie
• Year: 2012
• Volume: 16
• Pages: 25 - 41

Contributors

author

Antoni Kuczyński

• Katolicki Uniwersytet L ubelski J ana Pawła II