Powielając własne błędy czy ucząc się od siebie? O związkach historii mówionej z antropologią kulturową oraz potrzebie silnej tożsamości

• Authors: Kurpiel Anna

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Manifolding your own mistakes or learning from yourself? On the relationships of oral history with cultural anthropology and the need for a strong identity

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

The article is an extended version of the paper presented during the session: ‘Oral history - ethnography - cultural anthropology’ of the Polish Ethnological Association’s Conference (Wrocław 2016). Mutual (and sometimes difficult) relation of anthropology, oral history, and history results in several “lessons” or “traps” for scientists who stayed in between those disciplines. The author referring to her own experience of an ethnologist who has been dealing with oral history for years raises and outlines a number of them, such as: returning to the field, methodological slackness, ethical reflection or a ‘trap of a positive hero. The article's conclusion is an attempt to reflect on the essence of the identity of oral history as a separate academic discipline, according to the author based on three pillars: orality, human-oriented attitude and understanding cognition.

Keywords

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history; oral history; anthropology; research methods; disciplines’ identity

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Polskiego Towarzystwa Historycznego
• Journal: Rocznik Antropologii Historii
• Year: 2018
• Issue: 11, Kulturowa historia wiedzy
• Pages: 173-187

Contributors

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Kurpiel Anna

• Centrum Studiów Niemieckich i Europejskich im. Willy’ego Brandta Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego