Witold Kula’s Concept of Economic History Understood as Historical and Comparative Anthropology

• Authors: Wojciech Piasek

Abstracts

EN

The article presents the concept of the economic history of Witold Kula. He understands economic history as historical and comparative anthropology. However, he does not see the need to change the name of the discipline because he understands anthropology in a traditional way. This name refers to a separate discipline of knowledge which is primarily interested in primitive societies. Taking account of the existence of different research styles in anthropology, it must be stated that Kula’s research on the economy represents the scientistic style of researching culture.

Keywords

EN

Witold Kula; economic history; anthropological perspective; scientistic anthropologisation of history

• Publisher: Polska Akademia Nauk
• Journal: Historyka Studia Metodologiczne
• Year: 2021
• Volume: 51
• Issue: Spec. iss.
• Pages: 131-151

Dates

published

2021

Contributors

author

Wojciech Piasek

• Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń

• https://orcid.org/0000000259975844

Identifiers

DOI

10.24425/hsm.2021.138883

Biblioteka Nauki

20312024