Wrocław, Poland

Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology

Etnologia i antropologia kulturowa

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Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology at UWr

Language: PolishStudies in Polish
Subject area: social
Kind of studies: full-time studies
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University website: uni.wroc.pl/en/

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1. Are you passionate about understanding cultural diversity, identities, and social practices across societies?

2. Do you want to acquire and apply ethnographic research methods, including participant observation and qualitative interviewing?

3. Are you interested in critical theories about power, representation, and cultural change?

4. Are you willing to engage in interdisciplinary work connecting anthropology with history, media studies, public policy, or development?

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6. Are you interested in ethical issues around representation, consent, and collaboration with communities?

7. Do you want to develop skills in communicating qualitative findings to academic, public, or policy audiences?

8. Are you motivated to apply anthropological understanding to real-world challenges like cultural heritage, migration, or social cohesion?

9. Are you comfortable collaborating with stakeholders from diverse backgrounds, including community leaders, NGOs, and scholars?

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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.
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).
Anthropology
Cultural anthropology is not valuable because it uncovers the archaic in the psychological sense. It is valuable because it is constantly rediscovering the normal.
Edward Sapir Cultural Anthropology and Psychiatry (1932), p. 515
Anthropology
Every culture faces the same fundamental challenges. Men and women come together, children are brought into the world, nurtured and sheltered; elders are led into the realm of death as fearlessly as the imagination allows. To be human is to know the terror and splendour of a night sky, the crush of storms, the blood cries of enemies sweeping in with the dawn. Such is our common experience. To bring order to chaos, sense to sensation, we have created rules, which cross-culturally are remarkable in their consistency. ... Yet within this common fabric, this cloak of humanity, lie the individual threads of specific and highly specialized ways of life, distinct cultures, each with its unique and wondrous dream of the Earth. Unravelling the cloth and holding the strands to the light is the practice and contribution of ethnography.
Wade Davis, Light at the Edge of the World (2007)
Anthropology
Anthropology is destined to revolutionise the political and the social sciences as radically as bacteriology has revolutionised the science of medicine.
M.G. de Lapouge cited in: Thorstein Veblen (1898) "Why is Economics Not an Evolutionary Science" in: The Quarterly Journal of Economics Volume 12, 1898.
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