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Uolume 1
flnthropology
of Contemporary
Culture
Cover: Photo by Kinga Łozińska
T
he selected texts presented in this edition appeared in KO NTEKSTY from the late
1970s to the 1990s and are featured up to this day; inspired by the experiences of struc
turalism, semiotics, phenomenology and hermeneutics they reflect the spirit of our pe
riodical. The anthropology of contemporary society and culture, the anthropology of memory,
historical anthropology, the anthropology of literature, the anthropology of the town and, fi
nally, the anthropology of film and visual anthropology comprise characteristic fields readily
pursued by authors publishing their studies in KO NTEKSTY and cooperating both with the
quarterly and the Department of Cultural Anthropology, Film and Audiovisual Arts at the
Institute of Art of the Polish Academy of Science, which publishes it.
We dedicate this collection of texts to the memory of Professor Aleksander Jackiewicz, au
thor of Antropologia Filmu (1975) and numerous publications dealing with film studies.
The special English-language issue of “KO N TEKSTY” was prepared as part of the “N a
tional Programme for the Development of the Humanities”. We would like to treat our publi
cation as an opportunity to share noteworthy research tendencies in Polish studies concerning
the anthropology of contemporary culture and anthropology of film discussed in our quarterly.
It is our intention to indicate interesting phenomena in this field by highlighting anthropology
of culture as an experience of reflections as well as interpretations developed between Anthro
pology and Art (between Science and Art), and to present “K O N TEKSTY” as important for
reflections on the anthropology of contemporary culture and anthropology of film, involving
authors from all academic centers dealing with anthropological studies in Poland.
In memoriam Professor Aleksander Jackiewicz
Krzysztof M. Bednarski, Victoria, 1983.
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Roads. Photo: Zofia Rydet