Leopold Jaroslav Pospíšil
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Kniha prostřednictvím fotografií uznávaného antropologa Leopolda Pospíšila vypráví příběh o papuánských Kapaucích a výzkumech, které mezi nimi začal uskutečňovat zhruba od poloviny 50. let 20. století. Význam jeho výzkumu lze z hlediska antropologického studia člověka přirovnat k přistání člověka na Měsíci. Nová Guinea totiž byla v době jeho pobytu jedním z posledních míst neprozkoumaných západní civilizací. Lidé tam tisíce let žili takřka v izolaci od pobřežních oblastí jako „poslední svědkové pravěku“. Leopold Pospíšil pořídil unikátní fotodokumentaci, ve které zachytil rychle mizející svět novoguinejské kultury neznající západní vymoženosti. Publikace vychází z osobního fotografického archivu Leopolda Pospíšila a vizuálními prostředky vypráví o všedním životě Kapauků, válkách i autorově bádání. Pospíšilův život by mohl sloužit jako předloha k řadě dobrodružných románů, od osobní účasti v protinacistickém odboji, přes aktivní odpor proti komunistickému režimu, který vedl k jeho nucené emigraci. Tehdy se v Americe živil jako honák krav, následně vystudoval prestižní Yaleovu univerzitu, stal se poradcem amerických prezidentů a uskutečnil výzkum v novoguinejských horách v době, kdy se tam odvážil vydat málokdo.
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Adventures in the Stone Age
When Leopold Pospíšil first arrived in New Guinea in 1954 to investigate the legal systems of the local tribes, he was warned about the Kapauku who reputedly had no laws. Dubious that any society could exist without laws, Pospíšil immediately decided to live among and study the Kapauku.
Learning the language and living as a participant-observer among the Kapauku, Pospíšil discovers that the supposedly primitive society possesses laws, rules, and social structures that are as sophisticated as they are logical. Having survived the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia and fled the Communist regime, Pospíšil has little patience for the notion that so-called advanced civilizations are superior to the ‘stone age’ society in which he now lives.
On the basis of his research and experiences among the Kapauku – he would stay with them five times between 1954 and 1979 – Pospíšil pioneered in the field of legal anthropology, holding a professorship at Yale, serving as the anthropology curator of the Peabody Museum of Natural History, and publishing three books of scholarship on the Kapauku law. As Jaroslav Jiřík and Martin Soukup write in their afterword, however, “His three previously published works are about the Kapauku; this one is about the anthropologist among the Kapauku.”
The memoir is filled with charming anecdotes and thrilling stories of trials, travels, and war – told with humor and humility—and accompanied by a wealth of the author’s personal photos from the time.
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Adventures in the Stone Age A New Guinea Diary
When Leopold Pospíšil first arrived in New Guinea in 1954 to investigate the legal systems of the local tribes, he was warned about the Kapauku who reputedly had no laws. Dubious that any society could exist without laws, Pospíšil immediately decided to live among and study the Kapauku.
Learning the language and living as a participant-observer among the Kapauku, Pospíšil discovers that the supposedly primitive society possesses laws, rules, and social structures that are as sophisticated as they are logical. Having survived the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia and fled the Communist regime, Pospíšil has little patience for the notion that so-called advanced civilizations are superior to the stone age society in which he now lives.
On the basis of his research and experiences among the Kapauku he would stay with them five times between 1954 and 1979 Pospíšil pioneered in the field of legal anthropology, holding a professorship at Yale, serving as the anthropology curator of the Peabody Museum of Natural History, and publishing three books of scholarship on the Kapauku law. As Jaroslav Jiřík and Martin Soukup write in their afterword, however, His three previously published works are about the Kapauku; this one is about the anthropologist among the Kapauku.
The memoir is filled with charming anecdotes and thrilling stories of trials, travels, and war told with humor and humilityand accompanied by a wealth of the authors personal photos from the time.
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