Henryk Sienkiewicz wobec kryteriów rasowo-antropologicznych. O listach Z wystawy antropologicznej w Paryżu

[Henryk Sienkiewicz and Racial-Anthropological Criteria. On the Letters Z wystawy antropologicznej w Paryżu] This article discusses Henryk Sienkiewicz’s approach to the 19th-century “scientific racism” in his “letters” (press reportage) Z wystawy antropologicznej w Paryżu [From the Anthropological Exhibition in Paris] (1878). The paper proves that the writer’s attitude towards such anthropological criteria as the cephalic index, facial angle, skull volume, and hair shape was significantly influenced by Oscar Peschel’s work The Races of Man and Their Geographical Distribution (1876).