1. Maria Antonina Czaplicka, referred to as Marya Antonina Czaplicka and Marie Antoinette Czaplicka, was a Polish cultural anthropologist who is best known for her ethnography of Siberian shamanism.
13 Facts About Maria Czaplicka
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Maria Czaplicka was born in the Stara Praga district of Warsaw on the 25th of October 1884 to Feliks Czaplicki and Zofia Zawisza.
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Maria Czaplicka began her studies at the Anna Jasienska Girls' School and attended the school until 1902.
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Maria Czaplicka began her studies in higher-education with the so-called Flying University, an underground institution of higher education in Russian-held Poland.
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Maria Czaplicka was known for her lectures at the University for Everyone, and the Society of Polish Culture.
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Maria Czaplicka wrote poetry, eventually being published in Warsaw's Odrodzenie magazine.
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Maria Czaplicka prepared several hundreds of photographs of people of Siberia, as well as countless notes on anthropometry and their customs.
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Maria Czaplicka received funds from the Committee for Anthropology of the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford to collect specimens from Siberia; 193 objects were donated by Maria Czaplicka to the museum's Asian collection.
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Maria Czaplicka was well known for her criticisms of the term "Arctic Hysteria" to refer to the Western perspective of the presentation of nervous diseases.
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Maria Czaplicka encourages cultural relativism, meaning that aspects of one culture should not be viewed and judged through the lens of a different culture when it comes to this situation.
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Maria Czaplicka describes that what Western academics called hysteria was viewed through a much different lens in Siberian cultures.
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Maria Czaplicka gave lectures on the nations of Central and Eastern Europe as well as on the habits of the Siberian tribes.
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Maria Czaplicka spoke on Polish issues, including Danzig's post-war disposition.