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
West Africa (Guinea-Bissau 2002, 2010-11, the Gambia 2016, 2017) and briefly in Poland (2010-11), Nepal (2011) and Botswana (2003): transnational migration, youth, gender, postcolonialism, globalisation, development, religion and witchcraft, dance
social and cultural history of medicine, history of reproduction and reproductive rights, history of pharmaceutical marketing, history of women and gender, comparative history, transnational history
anthropology of politics, anthropology of the state, 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.
anthropology of art, especially art's powers of distinction in Modernity (kitsch, historical heritage monuments), as well as materiality of objects considered art
political anthropology; the anthropology of the state; place and space; infrastructure and the built environment; resistance; protest movements; anarchism; affect theory
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.
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).
deviation from the point of view of cultural anthropology; communication processes in local communities; relation between an individual and society; family life and kinship in local communities.
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 of art, phenomenological anthropology, pretextual ethnography, studies on poverty and social trauma, bottom-up development in Poland and Mongolia.
anthropology of landscape; issues of broadly defined anthropology of ethnicity; national identification of inhabitants of Eastern Europe and Siberia, Russia. Fieldwork: Lithuania, Siberia, Mongolia.
economic anthropology, theory of culture, transcultural communication and European integration. Fieldwork conducted in Poland, Brittany, Macedonia, Mongolia
etnologia@uw.edu.pl (e-mail to the Institute) +48 22 55 36 59
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
medical anthropology, childhood studies, transcultural psychiatry, child and youth psychiatry, mindfulness, memory studies, visual anthropology, anthropology of space
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