Społeczna rola antropologa - powinność a zaangażowanie

• Authors: Katarzyna Kaniowska

Title variants

EN

The Social Role of the Anthropologist - Responsibility and Engagement

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

PL

This paper on engaged anthropology is focused on several issues which, on the one hand, define the characteristic features of this current of anthropology, and, on the other, allow us to reflect on how the social role of an anthropologist can be understood today. The author begins her remarks by pointing to the ambiguity of the term “commitment” and to some of the consequences. She compares Norbert Elias’s position with the ways of understanding commitment adopted by contemporary anthropologists. She draws attention to the basic epistemological problems of engaged anthropology in regard to understanding cognition processes, and above all in regard to understanding the position of the researcher and the subject. She is then able to comment on contemporary attempts to establish the nature of an anthropologist and his or her potential social role. At the same time, she points to similarities with earlier sociological and anthropological concepts, stressing that the project of engaged anthropology shows a particularly clear link between methodology and ethical reflection.

Keywords

PL

antropologia zaangażowana; rola społeczna antropologa; badacz i badany; procedury poznania naukowego; refleksja etyczna

EN

engaged anthropology; social role of the anthropologist; researcher and subject; scientific cognitive process; ethical reflection

• Publisher: Instytut Studiów Politycznych PAN
• Journal: Kultura i Społeczeństwo
• Year: 2020
• Volume: 64
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 15-31

Dates

published

2020-06-25

Contributors

author

Katarzyna Kaniowska

• Instytut Etnologii i Antropologii Kulturowej Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego

Identifiers

DOI

10.35757/KiS.2020.64.2.2