One of the perspectives of research on the history of evaluation of ethnological works is to analyse reviews of ethnological and ethnographic works. We have chosen Antanas Mažiulis (1914–2007), who wrote many reviews of works in Lithuanistic studies. The aim of the article is to reveal how Mažiulis understood, appreciated and critically approached the science of ethnology. Since his reviews covered a wide range of topics and issues, we will concentrate only on the analysis of terms and methodological issues in them.
The aim of this contribution is to explore Julian Ochorowicz’s theory of rudimentary symptoms, a proposition largely based on psychological concepts, balancing between the latest findings in evolutionary biology and anthropology, and exploring the development of man and his history. This concept sought to align the reflection of human nature and culture by introducing a psychological input (the concept of subliminal traditions). The author analyses and reintroduces this concept, somewhat forgotten by researchers, that may have functioned as a bridge, both between evolutionary biology and anthropology, and Polish and West European scientific thought at that time.