Etnologia? A czego was tam uczą?

Ethnology? What do they teach you there?
This paper analysis root causes of lack of engaged anthropology in Poland. The major ground of animosity to engage in work that is defined by the problems and not by the discipline author placed in history and „cognitive pessimism”. Author emphasized the need for generate/create new paradigm that will allow practicing of applied anthropology and engaged anthropology, at the same time underlying that anthropologists who block it’s progress also bear the responsibility for the future shape of the discipline.