Full-text resources of CEJSH and other databases are now available in the new Library of Science.
Visit https://bibliotekanauki.pl

Results found: 2

first rewind previous Page / 1 next fast forward last

Search results

help Sort By:

help Limit search:
first rewind previous Page / 1 next fast forward last
1
Content available remote

JOZEF OBREBSKI: ETHNOLOGIST AND SOCIOLOGIST OF WARSAW

100%
Engelking A.
Sprawy Narodowościowe
|
2006
|
issue 29
91-101
EN
Jozef Obrebski studied ethnography and ethnology with Kazimierz Moszynski and Kazimierz Nitsch in Cracow and social anthropology with Bronislaw Malinowski in London, but did his independent work in Warsaw, where in 1934-1946 he was active among both sociologists and ethnologists. Until 1939 Obrebski worked in the Institute for the Study of Nationalities, and under its auspices conducted ethno-sociological fieldwork in the Polesie region. He was also Vice-director of the National Institute for Rural Culture, where he focused on peasant universities and memoirs, and village migration. Obrebski was active in the Polish Sociological Institute and became editor-in-chief of the 'Sociological Library', as well as co-editor of 'Przeglad Socjologiczny'. He lectured on sociology at the Free University in Warsaw and Lodz. In 1940-1944, he was active in clandestine structures of academic life in Warsaw under the Nazi occupation. After World War II Obrebski at first held the Chair of Ethnology of Lodz University, but continued his career at Warsaw University. However, soon he left Poland for good; this stage in his career began with guest lectures in the U.K., continued with field work in Jamaica and subsequent work for the United Nations in New York, where he spent the final twenty years of his life. The only Warsaw (and Polish) institution with which he established contacts in the later period (in 1960) was the Polish Sociological Association.
2

Obrebski on Malinowski. The Reception of Functionalism in Poland

100%
Engelking A.
Studia Socjologiczne
|
2004
|
issue 2(173)
17-34
EN
The following article is an extended commentary to Jozef Obrebski's writings regarding Bronislaw Malinowski's anthropology. Obrebski's archival text is included in this volume. The author starts with presenting Obrebski's (1905-1967) scholarly biography. He was a student and a doctoral candidate of Malinowski who became ardently devoted to popularizing Malinowski's theories by virtue of further studies and translations. Most of Obrebski's archival legacy can be found at the University of Massachussetts at Amherst, USA. The second part of the article deals with the history of relations between the two scholars, which the author managed to trace through a meticulous search of various source materials and archives. In the third part of the article the author sums up the results of her findings. By juxtaposing Obrebski's newly found Malinowskiana with his published works related to Malinowski, of which there are very few and often and only fragmentary, we find important testimony to the initial reception of functionalism in Poland.
first rewind previous Page / 1 next fast forward last
JavaScript is turned off in your web browser. Turn it on to take full advantage of this site, then refresh the page.