The study focuses on theoretical analysis of selected controversies on social and cultural anthropology with a special attention to the
habitual practice in the
organization of field research In his study, the author relies on selected ethnological concepts and submits a thesis that intraspecific competition and territorial and predatory behaviour of researchers can become a source of controversies within the discipline. In the conclusion, the author compares anthropologists and ethnologists to headhunters who - at the “initiative ritual” of field research - acquire the reputation of those by whom they carried out ihe field research.