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 competed her doctoral dissertation titled Rolnicze strategie pracy i przetrwania (Farmers' strategies of work and surviving) under the supervision of Professor Anna Zadrożyńska. 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, 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, 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].