Spowiedź antropologiczna. Z notatek PRL-owskiego etnografa – o niektórych kontekstach badań terenowych w Sudanie

Abstrakt

This article is based on field notes from the author’s first independent ethnographic research, conducted in 1989–1991 in Sudan. Reflecting on the path that led him to anthropology during the last decade of the Polish People’s Republic, just before the political
transformation in Poland, he revisits his first ethnographic experience in the field, during student expeditions to Africa, focusing in particular on his long doctoral fieldwork
in Sudan, spanning a year and a half. Examined years later, the text reveals facts, now salient but which then seemed obvious, or, for some reason, were not to be mentioned.
The goal is to provide some insights into the history of Polish ethnography during the communist period.