https://czasopisma.bg.ug.edu.pl/index.php/etnografia/issue/feedEtnografia. Praktyki, Teorie, Doświadczenia2023-10-17T19:56:40+00:00dr Aleksandra Paprot-Wielopolska, PhDaleksandra.paprot-wielopolska@ug.edu.plOpen Journal Systems<p>Czasopismo „Etnografia. Praktyki, Teorie, Doświadczenia” jest periodykiem naukowym, w którym zamieszczane są artykuły naukowe oraz inne teksty naukowe z zakresu antropologii kulturowej/etnologii, socjologii, pedagogiki, historii, folklorystyki, studiów kulturowych oraz innych dyscyplin nauk społecznych i humanistycznych stosujących etnografię jako praktykę badawczą.</p>https://czasopisma.bg.ug.edu.pl/index.php/etnografia/article/view/9958Antropologia psychologiczna. Wprowadzenie2023-10-17T13:29:06+00:00Michał Żerkowski<p>The text is an introduction to psychological anthropology, a subdiscipline of cultural<br>anthropology that looks into interactions linking cultural phenomena with human psychological processes. The history of the concept of psychological anthropology and its definitions is discussed and then juxtaposed with explanations of the concepts of ethno-psychology, cultural psychology, and cognitive anthropology. The discussion is contextualized by the history of the subdiscipline itself, which over the last 150 years has been developed and co-developed – often in a complex and convoluted way – by subsequent anthropological approaches and trends, with which it has at times been identified.</p>2022-10-17T00:00:00+00:00Prawa autorskie (c) 2023 https://czasopisma.bg.ug.edu.pl/index.php/etnografia/article/view/9969Spotkanie dwóch światów. O różnicach kulturowych w percepcji rzeczywistości2023-10-17T19:39:58+00:00Sara Szweda<div class="page" title="Page 262"> <div class="layoutArea"> <div class="column"> <p>In this essay, I present and analyze differences in the perception of the world by two people who are representatives of two different cultures and societies. The first one is the anthro- pologist Fernando Santos-Granero and the second is a man from the Amazonian Yanesha group named Matar. Focusing on the description of a specific event that happened during the ethnographic fieldwork, I deal with the differences in its interpretation. Referring to the interactionist theory of reasoning proposed by Dan Sperber and Hugo Mercier and on Anil Seth’s research on perception, I assume that these differences are the result of each person’s individually shaped perceptions and ways of reasoning. In this paper I seek to explain how perception and reasoning influence the formation of representations that arise in the human mind in relation to cultural as well as environmental phenomena.</p> </div> </div> </div>2022-10-17T00:00:00+00:00Prawa autorskie (c) 2023 https://czasopisma.bg.ug.edu.pl/index.php/etnografia/article/view/9970„Wojna idzie”. Autoetnograficzne studium praktyk proksemicznych w czasach zarazy2023-10-17T19:47:00+00:00Jan Frydrych <div class="page" title="Page 274"> <div class="layoutArea"> <div class="column"> <p>At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Polish government introduced a number of restrictions related to the use of public spaces. During a two-month period – from March to April 2020 – the authorities implemented provisions regulating “social distance,” imposing relevant limitations, introducing the obligation to cover mouth and nose, restrict- ing movement in public spaces, limiting the number of people in shops, public facilities and public transport, and later either eased or lifted those restrictions. An ethnographic study of the consequences of these restrictions, i.e., their social impact, requires both special approach and tools. In this paper, I present my efforts to develop such an approach, based on the combination of insights from Edward T. Hall’s proxemics and Marc Augé’s non-place theory, as well as phenomenology of the body and autoethnography. Based on autoethnographic notes, I present the outcomes of my endeavor – the description of my embodied experience of pandemic restrictions in non-places.</p> </div> </div> </div>2022-10-17T00:00:00+00:00Prawa autorskie (c) 2023 https://czasopisma.bg.ug.edu.pl/index.php/etnografia/article/view/9971Una nueva compilación de entrevistas con antropólogos (americanistas)2023-10-17T19:56:40+00:00Juan Javier Rivera Andía <div class="page" title="Page 276"> <div class="layoutArea"> <div class="column"> <p>RESEÑA DE LIBRO<br>Francisco Pazzarelli (ed.). (2020). Conversar Mundos: Naturalezas, Culturas y Onto- logías en la Antropología Contemporánea. Entrevistas a Denise Arnold, Bruno Latour, Marcio Goldman, Pedro Pitarch, Eduardo Viveiros de Castro. Buenos Aires: Rumbo Sur. 144 páginas.</p> </div> </div> </div>2022-10-17T00:00:00+00:00Prawa autorskie (c) 2023 https://czasopisma.bg.ug.edu.pl/index.php/etnografia/article/view/9960Kognitywne badania nad religią a antropologia kulturowa2023-10-17T14:41:16+00:00Maciej Czeremski<p>Cognitive science of religion (CSR) is an interdisciplinary research project focusing on the cognitive foundations of religion. The aim of this article is to discuss the specificity of CSR and demonstrate that, although it is part of cognitive science, it can also be seen as an anthropological paradigm in its own right. I argue that such a view can be supported by highlighting the importance of cultural anthropology for the SCR genesis (especially the role of anthropological theories and the resulting research methods, the involvement of anthropologists in the emergence of the new paradigm) and stressing the way in which contemporary anthropology benefits from theories formulated within CSR, the debates they generate and inter-institutional collaborations. Thus, I wish to highlight the dual nature of CSR as part and parcel of both cognitive science and contemporary psychological anthropology.</p>2022-10-17T00:00:00+00:00Prawa autorskie (c) 2023 Etnografia. Praktyki, Teorie, Doświadczeniahttps://czasopisma.bg.ug.edu.pl/index.php/etnografia/article/view/9961“The most ideal form of scientific collaboration”: Applied racial psychology at the Institut für Deutsche Ostarbeit in Kraków (1942)2023-10-17T17:35:15+00:00Lisa M. Gottschall<p>In August 1942, anthropologist Elfriede Fliethmann and psychologist Ferdinand Carspecken tried various standardized psychological tests during a field examination in the Southern Polish town of Witów. Sources suggest that subsequent studies were intended to provide a “scientific” justification for the regime’s ethnic reorganization plans, similarly to a study in the Reichsgau Wartheland by psychologist Rudolf Hippius in the same summer. By employing a comparative mode of enquiry, the case study presented here gives a rare insight into then newly established scientific field: on the interface between anthropology and psychology, the concept of Rassenpsychologie (racial psychology) aimed to close the proclaimed gap between the natural sciences and humanities. Due to its fundamental conception the field was thus predestined to serve the Nazi regime. Investigating specific research practices of the (junior) scientists involved helps us under- stand further development of the concept of race, and thus the foundation of National Socialist ideology.</p>2022-10-17T00:00:00+00:00Prawa autorskie (c) 2023 https://czasopisma.bg.ug.edu.pl/index.php/etnografia/article/view/9962Transfer osobowości jako figura myślenia potocznego o transplantacji komórek, tkanek i narządów. Perspektywa etnopsychologiczna2023-10-17T17:56:03+00:00Sebastian Latocha<div class="page" title="Page 106"> <div class="layoutArea"> <div class="column"> <p>The article presents an analysis of ethnographic research data focused on non-professional, common knowledge about transplantation among local inhabitants of a village, and their reflections on the consequences of cell, tissue or organ transplantation. During research I looked at cultural factors that may fuel the fear of such procedures. One of these factors is an ethnotheory of the donor’s personality transfer (or the “psychology” of an individual) resulting from transplanting his/her biological material into the recipent’s body. The aim of the article is to operationalize this concept from an ethnopsychological perspective. The research was carried out with a group of 35 residents of a village located in central Poland, where there is a popular “urban legend” about kidney theft for transplantation that involves the local disco venue. The ethnographic material (interviews with residents) was collected in 2014–2016.</p> </div> </div> </div>2022-10-17T00:00:00+00:00Prawa autorskie (c) 2023 https://czasopisma.bg.ug.edu.pl/index.php/etnografia/article/view/9963Potknięcie. Etnograficznie o psychiatryzacji dzieci i młodzieży w kontekście adopcji zamkniętej w Polsce2023-10-17T18:12:35+00:00Anna Witeska-Młynarczyk<div class="page" title="Page 132"> <div class="layoutArea"> <div class="column"> <p>In the text, I look at the processes of psychiatrization as they unfold within social policies implemented in Poland. The presented ethnographic description focuses on the institution of adoption. I am telling the story of a young girl adopted as an infant. By creating an ethnographic commentary on the story, I raise the issues of epistemic inequalities, diagnostic cultures, biological reductionism and biopolitical bureaucracy. Methodologically, my analysis is based on in-depth interviews with the adoptive parents, the adopted girl and the people taking care of her at the youth educational centre, as well as numerous diagnostic documents developed by experts co-creating the system of social care in Poland.</p> </div> </div> </div>2022-10-17T00:00:00+00:00Prawa autorskie (c) 2023 https://czasopisma.bg.ug.edu.pl/index.php/etnografia/article/view/9964Etnografia afektywnych poruszeń: coaching i neoliberalna psyche2023-10-17T18:28:29+00:00Michał Mokrzan<div class="page" title="Page 147"> <div class="layoutArea"> <div class="column"> <p>The article seeks to defamiliarize coaching practices based on the premises of positive psy- chology that were the focus of the author’s inquiry during ethnographic research among the Polish community of professional coaches and their clients: managers, entrepreneurs and university teachers. The author argues that coaching practices equip individuals with tools to cope with the social and personal risks associated with living conditions of late-capitalism. These practices are also a space within which we fase the circulation of affects and the power of desires that support capitalist regimes of productivity and, consequently, produce a neoliberal psyche (neoliberal type of subjectivity). In this paper, the author aims to answer the following questions: how do people participating in a coaching process govern themselves (construct, negotiate or contest their own self) by means of affective movements? What is the persuasive dimension of the affective work on self undertaken by coachees that results in subjectification and/or objectification along the lines of neoliberal rationality? And finally: how is the affective-rhetorical process of embodying the neoliberal type of governance manifested in coaching? The answers to these questions have been developed based on the findings of affect theory and rhetoric culture theory.</p> </div> </div> </div>2022-10-17T00:00:00+00:00Prawa autorskie (c) 2023 https://czasopisma.bg.ug.edu.pl/index.php/etnografia/article/view/9965Doświadczenie traumatyczne w Rwandzie2023-10-17T18:41:46+00:00Małgorzata Wosińska<div class="page" title="Page 170"> <div class="layoutArea"> <div class="column"> <p>In the article, I redefine the traumatic experience that has been ubiquitous on both individ- ual and collective levels for people in Rwanda since the 1994 genocide. Using ethnographic and psychotraumatological methods, I point out the limitations of the Western-centric psychoanalytic approach and the presence of discursive elements derived directly from the public discourse on the Holocaust, which – too often understood as a model discourse – in practice makes it impossible to recognize the nature of a specific trauma or real identities of the injured subjects. In the text, I propose to adopt an emic/vernacular position on this issue, and to ponder the decolonization potential inherent in such a perspective.</p> </div> </div> </div>2022-10-17T00:00:00+00:00Prawa autorskie (c) 2023 https://czasopisma.bg.ug.edu.pl/index.php/etnografia/article/view/9966Utracona obecność. Doświadczenie żałoby po śmierci zwierzęcia towarzyszącego2023-10-17T18:55:10+00:00Małgorzata Roeske<div class="page" title="Page 193"> <div class="layoutArea"> <div class="column"> <p>Dying is one of the basic existential experiences which, at the most fundamental level, both connects and separates humans from the rest of animate nature. What they have in common is the biological dimension, while divisions occur at the cultural level. Within Western culture, based on the Christian religion, the death of an animal, seen as a soul-less being, is deprived of the sacred dimension and perceived as a biological act of cessation of all vital functions. This belief is contrasted with the perspective of companion animal caretakers, for whom the individual experience of going through the process of dying and the death of their pet can be a traumatic experience, comparable to the experience of the death of a human loved one. In this article, I consider the following: caretakers’ reac- tions to the loss, the specificity of the bond that affects grief, analogies between mourning after the death of a human and a pet, the role of ritual in the mourning process, strategies and ways of reorganizing the relationship with the deceased pet, and social attitudes faced by the caretakers in response to their grief, with particular emphasis on the phenomenon of disenfranchised grief. The text is based on ethnographic qualitative research focused on the caretakers’ experiences related to the disease and death of companion animals.</p> </div> </div> </div>2022-10-17T00:00:00+00:00Prawa autorskie (c) 2023 https://czasopisma.bg.ug.edu.pl/index.php/etnografia/article/view/9967„You can’t stop the FUTURE”. Wprowadzenie do badań nad problematyką tożsamości mieszkańców Wysp Japońskich2023-10-17T19:06:47+00:00Jacek Splisgart<div class="page" title="Page 221"> <div class="layoutArea"> <div class="column"> <p>The issue of identity among of the people of Japan is very complex. On the one hand, there is the prevalent and promoted myth of their homogeneous origin and the Japanese culture, while on the other – along with the development of social and cultural sciences – there is a growing awareness of the country’s ethno-cultural diversity. The Japanese are now increasingly facing the question of ethnic stereotypes and the issue of cultural competences of people living in the Japanese Archipelago. This article presents an analysis of identity-building among of the Japanese and two minority groups: ethnic Koreans (zainichi) and children born to mixed couples (hāfu).</p> </div> </div> </div>2022-10-17T00:00:00+00:00Prawa autorskie (c) 2023 https://czasopisma.bg.ug.edu.pl/index.php/etnografia/article/view/9968 Odżibuejska ontologia, zachowanie i światopogląd2023-10-17T19:20:24+00:00A. Irving Hallowell tłum. Michał Żerkowski<div class="page" title="Page 253"> <div class="layoutArea"> <div class="column"> <p>In this paper I have assembled evidence, chiefly from my own field work on a branch of the Northern Ojibwa, which supports the inference that in the metaphysics of being found among these Indians, the action of persons provides the major key to their world view. While in all cultures “persons” comprise one of the major classes of objects to which the self must become oriented, this category of being is by no means limited to human beings. (...) Although not formally abstracted and articulated philosophically, the nature of “persons” is the focal point of Ojibwa ontology and the key to the psychological unity and dynamics of their world outlook. This aspect of their metaphysics of being permeates the content of their cognitive processes: perceiving, remembering, imagining, conceiving, judging, and reasoning.</p> </div> </div> </div>2023-10-18T00:00:00+00:00Prawa autorskie (c) 2023