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Aboriginal Siberia
Anthropological Theory
Anthropologist
Anthropology
Arctic Hysteria
Arctic Studies
Author_Grazyna Kubica
Biography
Bristol
Bronislaw Malinowski
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Cultural Study
Eastern Europe
England
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European History
Female Professor
Folklore Society
Gender
History
Lecturer
London
Northern Asia
Oxford
Poland
Polish Ethnology
Race
Racial Discourse
Radical Intelligentcia
Royal Anthropological Institute
Royal Geographical Society
Shamanism
Siberia
Suicide
Teacher
Third Sex
Warsaw
Yenisei Expedition
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- ISBN 9781496222619
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 01 Nov 2020
- Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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This biography of the Polish British anthropologist Maria Czaplicka (1884–1921) is also a cultural study of the dynamics of the anthropological collective presented from a researcher-centric perspective. Czaplicka, together with Bronisław Malinowski, studied anthropology in London and later at Oxford, then she headed the Yenisei Expedition to Siberia (1914–15) and was the first female lecturer of anthropology at Oxford. She was an engaged feminist and an expert on political issues in Northern Asia and Eastern Europe. But this remarkable woman’s career was cut short by suicide. Like many women anthropologists of the time, Czaplicka journeyed through various academic institutions, and her legacy has been dispersed and her field materials lost.
Grażyna Kubica covers the major events in Czaplicka’s life and provides contextual knowledge about the intellectual formation in which Czaplicka grew up, including the Warsaw radical intelligentsia and the contemporary anthropology of which she became a part. Kubica also presents a critical analysis of Czaplicka’s scientific and literary works, related to the issues of gender, shamanism, and race. Kubica shows how Czaplicka’s sense of agency and subjectivity enriched and shaped the practice of anthropology and sheds light on how scientific knowledge arises and is produced.
Grażyna Kubica covers the major events in Czaplicka’s life and provides contextual knowledge about the intellectual formation in which Czaplicka grew up, including the Warsaw radical intelligentsia and the contemporary anthropology of which she became a part. Kubica also presents a critical analysis of Czaplicka’s scientific and literary works, related to the issues of gender, shamanism, and race. Kubica shows how Czaplicka’s sense of agency and subjectivity enriched and shaped the practice of anthropology and sheds light on how scientific knowledge arises and is produced.
Grażyna Kubica is an associate professor of social anthropology in the Institute of Sociology, Jagiellonian University, KrakÓw. She coedited the volume Malinowski between Two Worlds: The Polish Roots of an Anthropological Tradition. Ben Koschalka is a British translator specializing in academic as well as literary texts. He lives and works in KrakÓw, Poland.
