PROFESSOR CZESŁAW ROBOTYCKI (1944–2014)

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PROFESSOR CZESŁAW ROBOTYCKI (1944–2014)

Journal Title: Muzealnictwo - Year 2014, Vol 55, Issue

Abstract

A renowned ethnologist and culture anthropologist, prof. dr hab. Czesław Robotycki unexpectedly passed away on January 19, 2014 in Cracow. Born on November 2, 1944 in Radomyśl nad Sanem, he graduated in ethnography from the Faculty of Philosophy and History of the Jagiellonian University, at the Department of Slavic Ethnography in 1968, where he was then serving as an adjunct. Spending his entire professional life with the Jagiellonian University, he obtained his PhD degree (1997), habilitation (1993) and professor title (1999) there. Scientific achievements of professor Czesław Robotycki comprise of almost 150 publications, including: three individual monographs in the field of ethnology, cultural anthropology and museology. He received recognition among museum experts from Poland as an eminent lecturer – and in the years 2012-2014 the Head – of the Postgraduate Studies in Museology at the Jagiellonian University. According to professor Robotycki, museums as institutions and museum exhibitions are part of the cultural canon, where self-reports (texts on culture) are developed. He considered ethnographic museums and exhibitions as the same cultural text as other canonical, e.g. academic texts. Moreover, he claimed that these institutions are able – by using ethnomethodological concepts – to convincingly illustrate the processes of cultural democratization (i.e. a permanent division into high and low culture) through presentation of the most volatile aspects of everyday life: customs, subcultures, kitsch, things rejected by elites – everything that creates our day-to-day visual environment and the atmosphere of a place. According to professor Robotycki, museums should be considered as places where not only physical objects (which is obvious) but also ideas are stored.

Authors and Affiliations

Jan Święch

Keywords

Uniwersytet Jagielloński Czesław Robotycki (1944–2014) antropologia kultury muzealnictwo kolekcja tekst kultury rzecz IDEA

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