Professor Anna Malewska-Szałygin
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My research interests include anthropology of politics and anthropology of common sense knowledge. My work focuses on common sense notions, imaginaries, metaphors produced, shared, and transformed in local discourses. In the contemporary variety of voices, I am mostly interested in the voice of uneducated people living in rural areas (often omitted or marginalized within public debate). I have conducted my fieldwork in Poland: in regions: Roztocze, Masuria, and Podhale. In subsequent research projects, I worked on: stories on the past of the countryside (1984-1986), local discourse on local government (1994-1996), images of power, state and democracy (1999-2005). My current research project is Ethnography of Media Audience and Local Common Sense.
External Expertise:
May 2019 – a rearrangement of the Exhibition in the Zofii Ryży Memory House, in Adampol- Polonezköy, in Turkey after renovation done by Foundation of the Common Heritage „Terpa”, funded by Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage and Institute of the Polish Heritage Abroad 'Polonica'. The exhibition was arranged in 2002
http://polonika.pl/co-nowego-/dom-cioci-zosi-w-adampolu-zakonczenie-prac-remontowo-konserwatorskich
2014 Cultural Preferences of the Employees in one of the Warsaw Corporations and their Perception of National Museum in Warsaw. For the National Museum in Warsaw co-authored with E. Klekot, P. Cichocki. (Fieldwork conducted with a students’ group).
2013 Polish Shopping Customs. For Carrefour Inc. Poland. (Fieldwork in five Polish cities conducted with a students’ group).