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'THAT REAL KRAKAUER'. KRAKOW ROOTS OF FELIKS GROSS

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Kubica G.

Kultura i Społeczeństwo

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2006

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vol. 50

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issue 3

31-78

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The article presents the Cracow-centered biography of Feliks Gross. It is primarily based on archival documents, reminiscences, interviews, Professor's letters and his publications. The authoress describes the history of the Gross family, concentrating on Adolf, Feliks' father, politician and social worker. The important quality of this family seemed its religious diversity, liberal political views and its belonging to the Polish intelligentsia. Feliks also exhibited his pacifist and socialist sympathies rather early. The period of his studies at the Law Department of the Jagiellonian University was the time of his political activism and growing interest in social problems and sociology. On the list of his mentors we could find: Stanislaw Estreicher, Jan Stanislaw Bystron, and (later) Bronislaw Malinowski. Gross merged his careers as an attorney with political activism (Polish Socialist Party and education of adults) and scholarly work (Ph.D. in ethnology of law). When growing antisemitism prevented him from doing his post-doctoral dissertation, Malinowski came to his aid and offered Gross the opportunity to lecture at the London School of Economics. The WWII disabled those plans. The authoress analyzes documents related to Gross in terms of the Fritz Schütze biographical process theory and points to the models of action, institutional patterns, trajectories and concealments.

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AN ANTHROPOLOGICAL BIOGRAPHY: ANDRZEJ WALIGORSKI

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Kubica G.

Sprawy Narodowościowe

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2006

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issue 29

29-32

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The article tackles methodological problems connected with biographical research on anthropologists carried out by other anthropologists. The authoress takes the perspective of Michael Herzfeld and his concept of 'anthropologizing history', i.e., giving voice to those who are deprived of it. Another source of inspiration is George Stocking's idea of the contextualized history of the discipline seen as the background of contemporary assumptions and controversies. Andrzej Waligorski's (1908-1974) biography is analyzed from various perspectives: the liberal and intellectual background of Cracow; the influence of Bronislaw Malinowski and of British anthropology; Waligorski's fieldwork in Kenya and colonialism; his lectureship at the Jagiellonian University and, finally, the marginalization of both the person of Waligorski and the discipline of anthropology. .

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JOZEF OBREBSKI AND JOZEF CHALASINSKI WITH BRONISLAW MALINOWSKI AND FLORIAN ZNANIECKI IN THE BACKGROUND

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Winclawski W.

Sprawy Narodowościowe

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2006

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issue 29

35-48

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Sociology underwent major changes between both World Wars. Empirical sociology began to dominate and field work conducted according to the methodology of the Chicago School was developing. Similar changes also took place in Polish sociology where developments were influenced by Florian Znaniecki's sociological school in Poznan. This was also a period of intensive development in ethnological research, due to Bronislaw Malinowski's seminar in the London School of Economics which was attended by many Polish ethnologists and sociologists. The young generation of social scientists soon dominated sociological research. Among the most important of them were sociologist Jozef Chalasinski, a student of Znaniecki, and ethnologist Jozef Obrebski, a disciple of Malinowski. New developments in field research allowed these two to meet and to cooperate in the field of empirical sociology.

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'THAT REAL KRAKAUER'. KRAKOW ROOTS OF FELIKS GROSS

AN ANTHROPOLOGICAL BIOGRAPHY: ANDRZEJ WALIGORSKI

JOZEF OBREBSKI AND JOZEF CHALASINSKI WITH BRONISLAW MALINOWSKI AND FLORIAN ZNANIECKI IN THE BACKGROUND