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ADAM FISCHER - WORK, PERSONALITY, AND CHOICES IN EXTREME SITUATIONS

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Jasiewicz Z.

Sprawy Narodowościowe

2006

issue 29

23-28

The article discusses the academic work and personality of Adam Fischer (1889-1943), whose contribution to the development of Polish ethnology is noteworthy. In the interwar period, between 1918 and 1939, he held the Chair of Ethnology at Lvov University and was president of the Polish Ethnological Society. Moreover, he was editor of the periodical 'Lud', and published a lot, including handbooks for ethnology. An exponent of the social and national roles of ethnology, he developed cooperation with worldwide scholarship. In 1939, after Lvov was occupied by the Soviet Union, Adam Fischer, in an extremely difficult political and material situation, continued his work at a Russian university, and exchanged correspondence with the Russian ethnologist Dmitri Zelenin. The author also demonstrates the significance of biographical studies for the history of scholarship.

STUDIES OF FOLK LITERATURE, ETHNOGRAPHY, ETHNOLOGY, AND ANTHROPOLOGY. INTERESTS OF THE EMERGING POLISH ETHNOLOGY/CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY IN MID 19TH CENTURY (Polish title below)

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Jasiewicz Z.

Lud

2010

vol. 94

191-220

(Polish title: Studia nad literatura ludowa, etnografia, etnologia, antropologia. Kierunki zainteresowan kształtujacej sie w polowie XIX wieku polskiej etnologii/antropologii kulturowej). The aim of the article is to discuss the importance of mid 19th century (1840-1865) for the development of Polish ethnology and cultural anthropology. On the basis of publications and archival materials from that time the author presents ethnological/anthropological interests and studies. Using the terms applied at that time, the author identifies studies of folk literature, ethnography, ethnology and anthropology and indicates the subject and problems of those studies. Folk literature was no longer the main object of interest; it was more often connected with a broader scope of folk culture, studied within the framework of ethnography. A concept of ethnology that focused not on the people - a social layer, but on nationalities and peoples - ethnic groups was developed. Ethnology understood in this way comprised ethnography as an empirical science, aimed at collecting materials. The concept of anthropology as a science with the broadest scope, i.e. comprising the human being belonging to both the world of biology and culture was also known. Polish ethnological/anthropological research was pursued on the basis of the knowledge of the achievements of European science, mainly German and French. The conditions connected with the lack of a national state were also important for the directions of studies. Besides, the lack of the national state made establishment of scientific institutions much more difficult, which, in turn, prevented professionalisation of researchers. Studies pursued in mid 19th c. did not result in the identification of ethnology/cultural anthropology as an independent scientific discipline. However, they created foundations for its emergence at the turn of the 19th c.

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ADAM FISCHER - WORK, PERSONALITY, AND CHOICES IN EXTREME SITUATIONS

STUDIES OF FOLK LITERATURE, ETHNOGRAPHY, ETHNOLOGY, AND ANTHROPOLOGY. INTERESTS OF THE EMERGING POLISH ETHNOLOGY/CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY IN MID 19TH CENTURY (Polish title below)