| Volume I: Anthropology of Contemporary Culture |
| Preface |
| Zbigniew Benedyktowicz | The Symbol in Ethnography | 6 |
| Ludwik Stomma | The Alcmene Myth | 13 |
| Ryszard Kapuściński | On Memory and Its Threats [Ryszard Kapuściński Talks with Zbigniew Benedyktowicz and Dariusz Czaja | 21 |
| Province |
| Czesław Robotycki | The “Province” from an Anthropological Viewpoint Reflections from the Perspective of the Dilemmas of Cultural Communication | 34 |
| Dariusz Czaja | The Paradox of the Province | 41 |
| Zbigniew Benedyktowicz | Coming Back Home. (In Praise of the Province). The Italian Experience of Tarkovsky and Kantor | 47 |
| Maria Poprzęcka | At Home | 61 |
| Jacek Waltoś | The Studio – the Partially Domesticated, Portable or Transitory Home | 65 |
| Dariusz Czaja | My Mobile Home. The Travelling Artist | 67 |
| Wiesław Kuba Szpilka | My Province | 79 |
| Center, Metropolis, Cities |
| Zbigniew Benedyktowicz | A Phantom of the Centre of the World. A Contribution to the Anthropology of Contemporaneity | 84 |
| Ludwik Stomma | The Beauty of Human Error | 112 |
| Dariusz Czaja | Fragments of the Venetian Discourse | 120 |
| Justyna Chmielewska | Istanbul: Recollections from a Lost City | 144 |
| Tomasz Szerszeń | Phantom Houses and Voyages to Nowhere | 151 |
| Wiesław Kuba Szpilka | Poor Ethnography | 156 |
| Ethnologist en route |
| Jerzy S. Wasilewski | The Secret History of Objects | 163 |
| Jerzy S. Wasilewski | People of the Taiga, the Reindeer People, the People... | 168 |
| Jerzy S. Wasilewski | Who Says Bonjour to Whom on Mont Blanc? Attempted Anthropology of Conventional Behaviour | 177 |
| Anthropology of Memory |
| Wojciech Michera | The Homelessness of Odysseus | 187 |
| Tomasz Szerszeń | Anthropology as a Mask, a Costume, a Metaphor: the Case of Michel Leiris and Roger Caillois | 193 |
| Wojciech Michera | Image, Crypt, Interpretation | 197 |
| Jerzy S. Wasilewski | Transgression and Tragedy, Laughter versus Death | 204 |
| Dariusz Czaja | The Shadows of Europe. History and Metaphor | 211 |
| Sławomir Sikora | Living Monuments. Forms of Memory and Oblivion in the Film Gyumri | |
| Volume II: Anthropology of Film |
| Zbigniew Benedyktowicz | Anthropology of Film. Introduction | 228 |
| Teresa Rutkowska | Fellini’s Wandering | 232 |
| Aleksander Jackiewicz | Charlie on an Italian Road | 243 |
| Zbigniew Benedyktowicz | Road Movie – a Poem about the Pebble | 245 |
| Wojciech Michera | Nights of Cabiria by Federico Fellini (Anthropological Notes) | 264 |
| Grzegorz Nadgrodkiewicz | Tragicomedy dell’arte, or Pierrotade à la Godard | 269 |
| Wiesław Juszczak | The Work and the “Boundary of Meaning” | 277 |
| Dariusz Czaja | The Eternal Moment. On Babette’s Feast | 282 |
| Zbigniew Benedyktowicz | Mary and Martha (Remarks on Babette’s Feast) | 289 |
| Marta Leśniakowska | The Sin of Gluttony and the Cultural Conflict. On the Margin of Babette’s Feast | 294 |
| Wojciech Michera | In Front of the Room (Stalker) | 296 |
| Dariusz Czaja | Cipher and Epiphany. Several Remarks on π | 305 |
| Ryszard Ciarka | Film and the True State of Things | 311 |
| Sławomir Sikora | The Predicament of the Meaning of Blow-up | 317 |
| Dariusz Czaja | Why Is It the Way it Is? | 324 |
| Wojciech Michera | The “Image” in Blow-Up – the Problem of Focalisation | 333 |
| Dariusz Czaja | Le Chef-d’oeuvre inconnu. Balzac and Rivette | 341 |
| Wiesław Szpilka | To See the World. Ethnography vis à vis Film and Mass Culture | 352 |
| Wiesław Szpilka | Batman – a Story of Creation | 357 |
| Monika Sznajderman | What’s Under the Mask. On the Motif of the Man Who Laughs: Several Remarks on Batman | 361 |
| Anna Sobolewska | The Construction of Existence | 365 |
| Zbigniew Benedyktowicz | Tango – a Dance of Universal Alienation | 370 |
| Dariusz Czaja | Fragmentary Presences. Portraits of Carlo Gesualdo | 378 |
| Karolina Kosińska | The Androgyne Who Fell to Earth | 391 |
| Dariusz Czaja | Homo Faber. Accident or Necessity | 402 |
| Beata Kosińska-Krippner | The Parodic Nature of the Appropriation of Factual Codes and Conventions in Mockumentaries | 414 |
| * | Notes on Authors | 429 |
| * | Bibliographic Note | 432 |
