Obcy wśród obcych i obcy wśród swoich. O ludoznawstwie w rękach literatów z dworów i miast w Polsce XIX wieku

A Stranger among Strangers and a Stranger Among One’s Own: Folk Studies in the Perspective of XIX Century Manor and Patrician Writers in Poland

The article concerns the history of ethnography in the XIX century Poland as well as the problems of fieldwork and scientific writing itself. It argues that the predicaments related to multiple changes of the researcher’s external and internal point of view in the field and in the process of writing – together with the assumption about the ethnographer as an “outsider” and the “scientific excursions” as rites of passage – are as old as are the ethnographic interests in Poland and Europe.

* Niniejszy artykuł jest fragmentem przygotowywanej książki Etnografia to piękna zabawka w rękach literatów z dworów i miast w Polsce XIX wieku i później.