No. 2 (2016): Ethnography. Practices, Theories, Experiences.

This volume reflects on three key aspects of contemporary anthropology: method, theory and personal experience. The texts revolve around fundamental questions: How does the specificity of ethnographic methods shape the identity of the discipline? What theories enable the field to transcend its boundaries? What role do researchers' personal experiences play in the process of knowledge production? The volume invites readers to consider how modern social and cultural anthropology defines its identity through fieldwork and theory. 

Topics include ethnographic research methodology, tensions between formalised and participatory methods, empiricism in fieldwork, and the institutional challenges facing Polish anthropology today. 

The volume includes a text by Katarzyna Wala on Tim Ingold's concept of the environment (Reconstructing Tim Ingold's Concept of the Environment (Part I)). This is the first part of a triptych to be published in subsequent issues of Etnografia, which will explore in depth the Scottish anthropologist's theoretical assumptions and proposals.

Keywords: fieldwork, anthropology at home, Sierra Leone, transmigrants, Islam, community, Tim Ingold, weather world, things, theory, environment, agency, Kyrgyzstan, marriage by abduction, anthropological knowledge,ethnogra- phic experience, methodology and ethics in field research, Michel Foucault, Vilém Flusser, biopower,apparatus, questionnaire, inquiry, methodology, academic ideals, cultural anthropology, ethnographic fieldwork,history of cultural anthropology, models of academic disciplines, ethnography, survey, participant observation,writing, collaborative ethnography, Żywiec/Sporysz, Waleria Prochownik, dialogue, couchsurfing, symbolic community, neotribalism, sharing economy, sobreparto, postpartum illness, childbirth, embodiment of emotions,Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia, healers, complementary medicine, folk medicine, healing practices, medical pluralism, state, Ukraine, identity, ethnographic experience