Dr Amanda Krzyworzeka
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Area of interest
ethnopolitology, economic anthropology (mainly work, decision making and cultural contexts of counting), everyday life in rural areas.
Biography
Amanda Krzyworzeka [1] competed her doctoral dissertation titled Rolnicze strategie pracy i przetrwania (Farmers' strategies of work and surviving) under the supervision of Professor Anna Zadrożyńska [2]. Since 2006 she is a member of the European Association of Social Anthropologists.
Fieldwork:
Poland (Podhale, Roztocze, borderland of Masovia and Podlachia),
Singapore,
Russia (Tomsk Oblast, Siberia),
Romania (Bukovina).
Research interests:
ethnopolitology,
economic anthropology (mainly work, decision making and cultural contexts of counting),
everyday life in rural areas.
Selected publications
Publications:
"Summary of the workshop 'What ethnology is. Ethnology and particular social sciences' ". In: The Imperative of Otherness. Social/Cultural Creation of Otherness, papers for the conference 5th Days of Polyphonic Ethnology, Warsaw, 2003, pp. 77-80, co-authored with Monika Nawracka.
"Mul'tikul'turalizm Tomskoj oblasti. Razmyshlenija na fone issledovanija obshchestva sel'kupov" ("Multiculturalism in the Tomsk Oblast. Considerations on Research of the Selkup Society"). In: Multikul'turnost' i obrazovanie. Materialy mezhregional'noj nauchno-prakticheskoj konferencii s mezhdunarodnym uchastiem 15—16 maja 2003 g., eds. E.L. Lvova, I.V. Nam, H.I. Naumova, Tomsk 2004, pp. 141-146, co-authored with Paweł Krzyworzeka.
"Selkupowie — rdzenni mieszkańcy Zachodniej Syberii" ("The Selkup: Indigenous Inhabitants of West Siberia"). In: Narody i nacjonalizm w Federacji Rosyjskiej, eds. P. Timofiejuk, A. Wierzbicki, E. Zieliński, Warsaw 2004.
"The Police as the strategic group in Kreuzberg Riots in May 2004." In: Symbols and Rituals of Statehood and Resistance. A Documentation of Collective Field Research Done by Young Anthropologists from Berlin and Warsaw, Warszawa 2007, Zakład Graficzny Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego, pp. 45-49, co-authored with Monika Nawracka.
"Potoczny obraz polityki w oczach Górali" ("Popular Perception of Politics among the Górale [Polish Highlanders]"). In: Rozmowy z Góralami o polityce, ed. Anna Malewska-Szałygin [3], Warszawa: Trio, 2005, pp. 19-39.
"Zagubiony teren?" ("Lost Field?"), (op.cit.,), no. 33, 2006.
"Two plus Two equals... not enough. Numbers and counting in the household strategies of Polish Farmers." In: Exploring Home, Neighbouring and Distant Cultures, eds. Lech Mróz [4], Aleksander Posern-Zieliński, Warszawa: DiG, 2008pp. 59-72.
"Wieś - miasto. Gdzie leży granica?" ("The Rural and the Urban. Where does the border lie?"). (op.cit.,), no. 3, 2008.
"The Decision-Making Process in Farming Households in Eastern Poland." In: Horizons of Choice. Anthropological studies of decision-making, eds. Asa Boholm, Annette Henning [in press].