%0 Journal Article %T Etnografia jest praktykowaniem semiotyki (przykład z polskiej etnografii XIX wieku i później) %A Libera, Zbigniew %J Prace Etnograficzne %V 2021 %R 10.4467/22999558.PE.21.012.14347 %N Tom 49 Numer 3 %P 185-200 %K ethnography, history, writing ethnography, ethnographic fieldwork, cultural semiotics %@ 0083-4327 %D 2021 %U https://ejournals.eu/czasopismo/prace-etnograficzne/artykul/etnografia-jest-praktykowaniem-semiotyki-przyklad-z-polskiej-etnografii-xix-wieku-i-pozniej %X Ethnography is a Practice of Semiotics (Example from Polish Ethnography of the 19th Century and Later) The article concerns the history of ethnography in Poland in the 19th century. This one illustrates that field research serves to validate theories, not to disprove them. Therefore, the article is divided into parts that relate to working in libraries, and then to searching for signs in the field for the concepts learned.