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entity…intheinterestsofwhichwesacrificetheempiricalentityweinfact
encounter…Thesacrificeis,however,asunnecessaryasitisunavailing.1
Whenothernessisconsideredapropertyofhumanideasandactions,
understandingthespecificityofculturalandsociallifeisimpossible
withoutknowingtheirdistinctiveness.Referringtoadetailedpresenta-
tionoftheethnographyofhistoricalthoughtinthefieldofhistoryand
anexplanationofwhythesacrificeisasunnecessaryasitisunavailing
tothefirstpartofmypublicationentitledHistoriajakowiedzalokalna
[HistoryasLocalKnowledge]andtheintroductorychaptersofmyworks
onWitoldKulaandKarolGórski,letmemakeafewcommentshere,
whichmaybeofusetoreadersofthiswork.2
Ilocatetheethnographyofhistoricalthoughtwithintheframework
oftheculturalperspectiveinthestudyofhistory.Anthropologyisthe
foundationoftheethnographyofhistoricalthoughtanditorganises
aviewofhistoriographyfromthelevelthatmakesitanditsissuesthe
consequencesofaculturalapriori.Inanthropology,theconceptofcul-
tureisanalyticalandsuperiortootherconcepts.Moreover,itisvery
important,thatfromitsverybeginningsandbyitsveryessence,anthro-
pologyhasbeenascienceinterestedintheproblemofdifferenceun-
derstoodpreciselythroughtheconceptofcultureandculturaldiversity.
Inrecentyears,asaresultoftheanthropologisationofitsowncul-
ture,anthropologyhastransferredtheproblemofculturaldifferences
tothelimitsoftheculturethatgavebirthtoit.Anthropology,asshown
andconfirmedinpracticebyanthropologiststhemselves,expandsits
traditionalareaofinterest,ceasingtobeasciencethatonlyfocuseson
theexoticinhabitantsofdistantarchipelagos.Scholarsarealsoinits
1C.Geertz,TheInterpretationofCultures:SelectedEssays,NewYork1973,p.51.
2W.Piasek,Historiajakowiedzalokalna.„Antropologiczneprzesunięcie”wbada-
niachnadhistoriografąPRL[HistoryasLocalKnowledge.(TheAnthropological
Turn)inResearchontheHistoriographyofthePolishPeople)sRepublic],Toruń
2011;Idem,AnthropologisingHistory:AHistoriographicandMethodologicalCase
StudyofWitoldKula,Toruń2018;Idem,AHistoriographicandMethodologicalCase
StudyofKarolGórski:TheEthnographyofHistoriographyDevelopedinthePolish
People’sRepublic,Toruń2022.
