Etnografki, antropolożki, profesorki

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Address ul. Kredytowa 1, Warszawa
Entry 0–14 PLN
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Curator dr Ewa Klekot

The exhibition Ethnographers, anthropologists, professors draws attention to the importance women played in the formation of ethnology as a scientific discipline in Poland. The heroines to be presented in the exhibition concern the first two generations of women professionally involved in ethnography, anthropology and ethnology. Based on their biographies, the diversity of the functions they performed and the roles they played in the development of this scientific discipline is evident. The exhibition will show the different professional paths of the women, which depended on their origins, their fate during the Second World War and the decisions taken in the wake of the post-war regime changes.

The exhibition will present female researchers living and working abroad as well as those who contributed to the development of institutional ethnology throughout Poland, and those whose lives span both. They are university lecturers and organisers of academic life, as well as employees and managers of museums, editors of multi-volume scientific publications and authors of significant publications.

The heroines selected by the exhibition's curator often have surprising biographies. They show that in times when women had limited opportunities for self-determination and their own development, they were able to play significant roles. The first woman to receive a professorial appointment in Poland was an ethnographer. The first woman to teach anthropology at Oxford was a Polish scholar. The exhibition Ethnographers, Anthropologists, Professors is not about the history of the discipline, but about its herstories. The exhibition draws attention to the fact that it was not only men who built Polish science and anthropology, women played an important and significant role in this aspect.

The exhibition will feature both personal memorabilia, primarily those related to the scientific activities of women researchers, photographs, and artefacts that are the subject of their research and scholarly activities, as well as their publications. A selection of the latter will be in a form adapted for browsing and reading at the exhibition.

The heroines presented in the exhibition are: Maria Czaplicka, Alicja Iwańska, Cezaria Baudouin de Courtenay Ehrenkreutz Jędrzejewiczowa, Sula Benet, Eleonora Plutyńska, Maria Znamierowska-Prüfferowa, Krystyna Krahelska, Giza Frankel, Olga Gajkowa, Bożena Stelmachowska, Janina Tuwanowna, Maria Frankowska, Wanda Brzeska, Jadwiga Klimaszewska, Maria Przeździecka, Zofia Cieśla-Reinfussowa, Kazimiera Zawistowicz-Adamska, Anna Kowalska-Lewicka, Maria Biernacka, Anna Świątkowska.

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