memory studies, religion and memory entanglements, post-secular approach to memory processes, decolonial and post-colonialism with particular emphasis on post-communist regions, anthropology of historical museums, anthropology of migration and in particular migrations related to war mobilizationResearch areas: Russia, France, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Georgia, Estonia
regional and historical diversity of Poland, religion and social behaviours of inhabitants of Masovia and Podlachia, contemporary culture of the Vilnius region (Lithuania); non-material culture
Anthropology of ritual and performance, religion, tourism, globalization, and mobility. Ethnography of Afro-Brazilian culture and religion, and African diaspora in the Americas.
anthropology of development and public policies, postdevelopment, economic anthropology, sustainable degrowth, Peasant Studies, social movements, applied research, activist anthropology.
anthropology of the state, Islamic economics, religious and secular power (an anthropological perspective), ethnography of conflict and unstable sites (cases of Dagestan and Chechnya) and application of computer programmes for analysis of fieldwork materials.
gender, sexuality, sex education, religion, history of science, history of sexuality, race, racism, neo conservatism, engaged anthropology, Poland, Central Europe
I am mostly interested in contemporary ethnical and identity related processes in Eastern Europe and Siberia. I focus on: identity, ethnic relations in small local communities of borderlands, situation of national, ethnic and religious minorities, contemporary processes of construction of nations. I conduct my fieldwork in the Sakha Republic (Yakutia) and Ukraine.
anthropology of religion, anthropology of cultural borderlands, Islam and Christianity in the post-ottoman territories, religious (anti) syncretism, neighborhood, shared shrines, postsecular studies, anthropological theories, (post)memories of World War II and postwar years in Polish Subcarpathia, non-western ontologies and their representations in anthropological theory, fieldwork: polish-ukrainian borderland, Bulgaria.
interethnic relations, ethnic identity; long-term research on Gypsy/Roma in Poland and Europe; fieldwork conducted in Polish-Lithuanian-Byelorussian borderland (currently in collaboration with Ukrainian ethnologists from the Lviv State Ivan Franko University); expeditions to Mongolia (fieldwork among the Khalkha, the Torghut and the Dukha [Tsaatan]), India (Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan), and the Sakha (Yakutia) Republic (fieldwork among the Yakuts and the Evenks).
blue anthropology and anthropology of water, blue humanities, ethnography of the Pacific Islands, especially French Polynesia, indigenous activism, postcolonialism Research area: French Polynesia, Poland (river areas: Bóbr, Biebrza, Brzozówka, Wisła, Odra, Drna, Żurawka)
Ethnography of Poland and other Slavic countries, folk art and architecture. Fieldwork conducted in Poland, Byelorussia, Lithuania, Ukraine, and the Balkans (Macedonia and Bulgaria).
anthropology & social art, phenomenological anthropology, pre-textual ethnography, studies on poverty and social trauma, bottom-up development in Poland and Mongolia.
ethnography of Polish regions; ethic, national and religious minorities living in Poland; identity issues in Eastern Europe, nation-building processes; area of reseach: Central-East Europe: Belarus, Poland
Director of the Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology University of Warsaw; Head of Section of Ethnic and Transcultural Studies
Area of interest:
Ethnography of Africa and the Middle East, Anthropology of politics, including anthropology of war, national identity, relation between the self and the other, studies on refugees and cultural context of human rights.
Head of Theory and Study of Contemporary Cultural Practices Unit (from 2016; Head of Ethnology of Poland and Europe Unit 2003-2016)
Area of interest:
anthropology of religion, the Apocrypha, prayer, sacrifice, contemporary religious expression and its connections to identity in various milieus and social groups
economic anthropology, theory of culture, transcultural communication and European integration. Fieldwork conducted in Poland, Brittany, Macedonia, Mongolia