Open AccessNarracje (relacje świadków) w warsztacie antropologa kultury. Pamięć i antropologia
Author(s) -
Lucyna Ratkowska-Widlarz
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
wrocłwski rocznik historii mówionej/wrocławski rocznik historii mówionej
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2719-7522
pISSN - 2084-0578
DOI - 10.26774/wrhm.6
Subject(s) - ethnography , perspective (graphical) , anthropology , subject (documents) , cognition , subject matter , sociology , epistemology , cognitive science , psychology , philosophy , art , computer science , visual arts , pedagogy , curriculum , neuroscience , library science
The article is divided into three parts. The first one (“The past is a foreign country [L.P. Hartley] History and Anthropology. Meeting points) is devoted to bringing history and anthropology of culture closer together, since in both of them a great deal of attention is paid to the issue of memory. In the second part (Problems with relations), by means of examples from ethnographical studies, we are presented with some of the difficulties that memory researchers can encounter when doing fieldwork. The last part of the text contains theoretical ponderings on the matter of memory as presented from the perspective of anthropology of culture. The problem of memory is discussed: the way it is understood by today’s anthropologists and what role it plays in the cognitive processes (memory as a source of anthropological knowledge, memory as a subject of knowledge, memory as a cognitive tool).