出版社：Institute of Slavic Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences
摘要：This article aims at demonstrating why an attitude to view the human diversity according to a criterion of race originated in the society in the epoch of Positivism. It is an outline of a specific approach of Polish popular science to popularize achievements of word science in the field of anthropology. The fact that races exist was then taken for granted and efforts were made to describe them. Readers of periodicals were acquired with racial classifications based on geographical and morphological criteria, often evaluating civilizations of individual races and the races themselves. Opinions of both foreign and Polish scientists, travelers and journalists were influenced by Eurocentric world view, and consequently the recognition of a white man, his appearance, activities and civilization, as a pattern that should be followed and imitated by all others in the name of human progress. The term ‘race’ itself was not defined; moreover, it was used without consistency and arbitrarily, and frequently interchangeably with such terms as ‘generation,’ ‘people,’ ‘branch,’ ‘tribe’ and ‘nation.’ Despite the aboundance of press publications on human races, the knowledge of this notion did not became a systematic one. Notions specific for the then anthropology became more widely known, and the glorification of colonial successes of the white man helped enforce a conviction of his superiority over “wild races” and support cruelty in the name of progress. However, Polish positivist thought approached scientific racism with criticism.
其他摘要：Celem artykułu jest ukazanie jednej z dróg, która przyczyniła się do zakorzenienia w polskim społeczeństwie myślenia o różnorodności ludzkiej podług wartościującego kryterium rasy. W tekście została zarysowana specyfika popularnonaukowego ujęcia tego prob
关键词：Positivism; human races; hierarchy of races; reception of racial theories; Eurocentrism; science popularization
其他关键词：pozytywizm; rasy ludzkie; hierarchizacja ras; recepcja teorii rasowych; europocentryzm; popularyzacja wiedzy
