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Jagiellonian University in Kraków

Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology

Etnologia i antropologia kulturowa

Bachelor's
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⇑Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology at UJ

Language: PolishStudies in Polish
Subject area: social
Kind of studies: full-time studies
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⇑Test: check whether Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology is the right major for you!

Etnologia i antropologia kulturowa

Find Out if Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology Is the Right Major for You!

1. Are you deeply curious about how different cultures live, think, and organize their societies?

2. Do you enjoy listening to people's stories, conducting interviews, and understanding their perspectives?

3. Are you interested in doing fieldwork—immersing yourself in a community to study it from the inside?

4. Do you enjoy analyzing symbols, rituals, language, and everyday practices to uncover deeper meanings?

5. Are you comfortable grappling with ambiguity, complexity, and multiple valid perspectives simultaneously?

6. Do ethical considerations—respect, consent, representation—matter to you when studying people?

7. Are you interested in connecting cultural understanding to broader social issues like identity, power, migration, or globalization?

8. Do you enjoy reading and synthesizing academic and ethnographic texts from different theoretical traditions?

9. Are you motivated to communicate cultural insights to others, whether in education, policy, media, or advocacy?

10. Do you enjoy working cross-culturally and adapting your approach when engaging with unfamiliar social norms?

⇑Definitions and quotes

Anthropology
Anthropology is the study of humans and human behaviour and societies in the past and present. Social anthropology and cultural anthropology study the norms and values of societies. Linguistic anthropology studies how language affects social life. Biological or physical anthropology studies the biological development of humans.
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Ethnology
Ethnology (from the Greek ἔθνος, ethnos meaning "nation") is the branch of anthropology that compares and analyzes the characteristics of different peoples and the relationship between them (cf. cultural, social, or sociocultural anthropology).
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Anthropology
Adventure has no place in the anthropologists profession; it is merely one of those unavoidable drawbacks, which detract from his effective work through the incidental loss of weeks or months
Claude Lévi-Strauss (1955) Tristes Tropiques
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Anthropology
The last bastions of resistance to evolutionary theory are organized religion and cultural anthropology.
Napoleon Chagnon cited in: "How Napoleon Chagnon Became Our Most Controversial Anthropologist" by Emily Eakin, The New York Times. February 13, 2013
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Anthropology
Anthropology is never an exact science; the observer never experiences the same culture as the participant.
Orson Scott Card, Speaker for the Dead, (1986)
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