The article verifies some issues of the international discourse between anthropological and ethnological disciplines in the light of the reception of Croatian war ethnography. These "war records" originated in a web of social, epistemological and communication contradictions and suddenly found themselves in a position, in which an exigent empirical example interrupted, at least for a moment, the elaborate post-modernistic discussions on the theoretical and textual constructs of scientific empiricism, and also put a temporary stop to the interpretative endeavours to harmonise the destabilised positions of the scientific subject and object brought about by the collapse of anthropological paradigms.