Director:
- dr hab. Wojciech Olszewski
Administration:
Secretary
Staff:
- Senior administrator: mgr Anna Łuczak
phone: (0-48-56) 611-23-30
fax: (0-48-56) 611-23-07
e-mail: etnowww@umk.pl
- The Dean’s Office Deputy-Director (Pl.
Teatralny 2a):
mgr Agnieszka Korzybska, room 211, phone: (0-48-56) 611 37 55, fax:
(0-48-56) 622 28 44
Student enquiries: Monday to Friday, 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
The Department of Ethnography and Ethnology at the Nicolaus Copernicus
University was established in 1945 by a newcomer from Vilnius, Maria
Znamierowska-Prüfferowa, an assistant professor at that time. It was
her who put forward Prof. Bożena Stelmachowska, an ethnologist from
Poznań, for the position of the Head of the Department. In 1956, after
the death of Bożena Stelmachowska, Prof. Maria Znamierowska-Prüfferowa
assumed the post of the Head, and was later succeeded by Prof. Jadwiga
Klimaszewska, a professor from Cracow. Subsequently, the post was
assumed by Dr Teresa Dunin-Karwicka.
In 1976, the Department became part of the newly founded Institute of
Archaeology and Ethnography, Nicolaus Copernicus University (later:
Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology), and was renamed the
Ethnography Unit (later: Ethnology Unit). Until 2001, Prof. Teresa
Dunin-Karwicka was the Head of the Unit. After the Department had been
established, the academics began their teaching, and the MA programme
was launched. However, it had to be abandoned due to political
repression targeted by the state authorities at the Nicolaus Copernicus
University, and the last MA dissertations were submitted in 1953.
In 1965, the Department ran Poland’s only Postgraduate Studies in
Ethnography. They have been offered on regular basis ever since, first
by the Ethnology Unit, and now by the Department of Ethnology.
Currently, the Postgraduate Studies in Ethnology are addressed at MA
graduate students of non-ethnological studies. On 1 October 1999, after
forty six years of absence, full-time MA studies in ethnology were
resumed. On 1 January 2003, the Ethnology Unit was transformed into the
Department of Ethnology, with Dr hab. Wojciech Olszewski as the Head of
the
Department.
The Department of Ethnology is located at ul. Szosa Bydgoska 44/48; the
Department’s Library, which contains approximately ten thousand
volumes, is also located at the Department’s premises. Other extensive
library collections on ethnology are available to students at the
following libraries: the Nicolaus Copernicus University Library in
Toruń (Biblioteka Główna UMK), the Copernicus Library (Książnica
Kopernikańska) and the Ethnographic Museum in Toruń (Biblioteka Muzeum
Etnograficznego w Toruniu im. Marii Znamierowskiej-Prüfferowej). The
Department also works closely with the Alliance Française Library.
Additionally, the Department collaborates with the Ethnographic Museum
(Muzeum Etnograficznym im. Marii Znamierowskiej-Prüfferowej) in Toruń,
the Museum of the Mazovian Countryside (Muzeum Wsi Mazowieckiej) in
Sierpc, and the Rev. Krzysztof Kluk Museum of Farming (Muzeum Rolnictwa
im. Ks. Krzysztofa Kluka) in Ciechanowiec. At these museums, classes
and field trips are scheduled for students to attend.
In 2003, the Department was assessed by the State Accreditation
Committee (Państwowa Komisja Akredytacyjna), and received positive
evaluation. On 1 April 2007, the Department of Ethnology was
transformed into the Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology.
The Department’s research expertise lies in the issues of the theory
and philosophy of culture, methodology of ethnological research,
symbolic culture of past and present ethnic processes in Poland and in
Europe, as well as contemporary cultural problems of Europe.
- Prof. dr
hab. Swietłana Czerwonnaja
Born in Moscow; graduated from Lomonosov Moscow State University,
Department of History in 1958; field of study: History of Art, History
of Religion, Ethnology.
Academic
Degrees and Titles
Doctoral thesis: 1963, the Academy of Arts of the USSR, History of Art,
dissertation title: The History of Monumental Sculpture in the Baltic
Republics [Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia].
Postdoctoral thesis: 1989, The Academy of Arts of the USSR, History of
Art, dissertation title: The History of the Fine Arts and Architecture
of Tatary from the Ancient Times to 1917. Professor title: 2004.
- dr hab
Jarosław Dumanowski
He studied history at the Nicolaus Copernicus University and the
University of Angers in France. As a Visiting Professor, he conducted
lectures in history at the Université Michel de Montaigne Bordeaux 3.
He is a member of the Polish Historical Society (Polskie Towarzystwo
Historyczne, PTH), Polish Society for Eighteenth Century Studies
(Polskie Towarzystwo Badań nad Wiekiem XVIII), Torun Scientific Society
(Towarzystwo Naukowe w Toruniu) and the Centre for Research on Central
European History (Centre de recherche sur l’histoire de d’Europe
centrale) at the University Paris 4 Sorbonne.
He is the Polish coordinator of the research project entitled “France
in Poland, Poland in France: Relations, Imagination and Culture (Since
the 16th century)” conducted as part of the intergovernmental POLONIUM
Project. He is also a Board Member of the PROGRESSORE Project
(Programme for the Study of European Rural Societies) operated as part
of COST (European Cooperation in the Field of Scientific and Technical
Research). Additionally, he is implementing the “Clothing of the Gentry
of Greater Poland in the 18th century: Semantics, Economics and Social
Role” (“Odzież szlachty wielkopolskiej w XVIII wieku. Semantyka,
ekonomika i rola społeczna”) KBN grant.
- dr hab.
Teresa Dunin - Karwicka, assoc. prof.
Research Interests: ethnographic regionalisation of Northern and
Central Poland.
mgr Renata
Lesner-Szwarc
She graduated from the Department of Ethnology, Nicolaus Copernicus
University in Toruń, where she defended her BA thesis entitled
Sztuka w Ujęciu Psychoanalizy Freuda
(Art from the Standpoint of Freudian Psychoanalysis) under Dr Andrzej
P. Kowalski’s supervision, and then the MA thesis entitled Tari
Jawa-Przekaz Utrwalony (Tari Java: The Message Preserved) under Prof.
Anna Czekanowska’s supervision. In the academic year 2001/2002, she was
granted a scholarship in the Darmasiswa programme by the Minister of
Education of the Republic of Indonesia, which involved studying at the
Sekolah Tinggi Seni Indonesia (subjects: dance and traditional music of
the Island of Java), as well as at the Universitas Sebelas Maret in
Surakarta (subject: Bahasa Indonesia).
In the academic year 2003/2004, she studied at Warsaw University as
part of the MOST programme. In 2005, she received a research grant for
field research on the Island of Java from the Ambassador of the
Republic of Indonesia, Mr Ibnu Sanyoto: Taniec Jako Przekaz Utrwalony
(Dance as Recorded Message).
Since 2005, she has been studying at the Fryderyk Chopin Academy of
Music in Warsaw (postgraduate studies in Dance Theory). Since 2006, she
has been a member of the Polish Ethnological Society (Polskie
Towarzystwo Ludoznawcze).
Professional
Experience
• Developing the index of exhibits at Muzeum Ziemi Puckiej (summer
2003).
• Interpreting from English at the Polish Open table tennis tournament
for the disabled (Cetniewo, June 2004 and June 2006); event organised
by the Polish Association of Disabled Athletes (Polski Związek
Sportowców Niepełnosprawnych) “Start.”
• Voluntary work in the Eight Columns 2004 project organised by
Sportjugend NRW with participants from eight countries: the Czech
Republic, Belgium, Germany, the United Kingdom, Israel, Spain, Russia
and Poland.
• Voluntary work at the Ethnographic Museum in Toruń: arranging the “Na
Jawie i Nie-Jawie” exhibition on culture and art of Java (from 27
October 2005 to 29 April 2006).
• Interpreting from the Indonesian language at concerts and workshops
organised in conjunction with the Embassy of the Republic of Indonesia
and the Warsaw Gamelan Group (2005).
- dr hab.
Iwona Kabzińska - Stawarz
Research Interests:
• Poles in the former Soviet Republics.
• Post-Soviet countries in the transformation process.
• Ethnic and national minorities.
• Ethnic processes in the unifying Europe.
PhD student at the Faculty of Humanities, Institute of Philosophy,
Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń.
Primary musical education (piano class), secondary art education
(diploma in decorative metalwork), MA in Ethnology and Cultural
Anthropology, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń.
Academic
Interests
The concept of mental suicide: the obliteration of identity, the self
and psyche (mental structures); the issues of existential conflicts in
eminent individuals with suicidal predilection; the collective
awareness of being ‘chosen’ or ‘rejected’ by the society; strategies
for the verbalisation of human existence in art and science.
Professional
and Artistic Output
• Articles in Maxmagazine: “Kolonia artystów” (May Issue) and “Kultura
III wieku” (in print).
• Art exhibition at the “Śmierć. Obrazy, Ikony, Metafory” Conference.
• Vernissage at the “Debiut” art gallery; the drawings and paintings
exhibition at the library gallery in Rumia in 2000.
• Since 2004: PhD studies at the Department of Ethnology and Cultural
Anthropology, Faculty of History, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań,
Demokratyzacja kultury współczesnej (Democratisation of Contemporary
Culture), supervisor Prof. Michał Buchowski; opening of the PhD
procedure: May 2006.
• 2002-2004: MA studies in ethnology at the Department of Ethnology,
Faculty of History, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, MA thesis:
Równość i podobieństwo w kulturze współczesnej demokracji (Equality and
Similarity in the Culture of Contemporary Democracy), written under the
supervision of Prof. Artur Dobosz, Department of Ethnology, Nicolaus
Copernicus University, Toruń 2004.
• 1999-2002: BA studies in ethnology at the Department of Archaeology
and Ethnology, Faculty of History, Nicolaus Copernicus University in
Toruń, BA thesis: Wybory – rytuał współczesnej demokracji (Elections:
The Ritual of Contemporary Democracy), written under the supervision of
Dr Krzysztof Piątkowski, Department of Archaeology and Ethnology,
Toruń, 2002.
• 1997-2002: MA studies in political sciences (specialising in
journalism) at the Institute of Political Science and Journalism,
Faculty of Social Sciences, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, MA
thesis on rationality in politics: Między racjonalnością a mitem
(Between Rationality and Myth), written under the supervision of Prof.
Zbigniew Blok, Institute of Political Science and Journalism, UAM,
Political Theory Unit, Poznań 2002.
• 1996/1997: Studium Policealne “Fama” (college) in Bydgoszcz, area of
study: journalism.
• 1992-1996: Leon Kruczkowski No 5 Secondary School (V Liceum
Ogólnokształcące im. Leona Kruczkowskiego) in Bydgoszcz (humanities
profile, tailored course).
• 1984-1992: Marian Rejewski No 3 Primary School (Szkoła Podstawowa nr
3 im. Mariana Rejewskiego) in Bydgoszcz.
Academic
Interests
Anthropology of politics, folklore of politics, anthropology of
knowledge, theory of culture and politics, anthropology of contemporary
culture, myth and rationality, contemporary culture democratisation.
- dr
Elżebieta Kostowska-Watanabe
MA in sociology, University of Warsaw 1971. Ph.D in sociology,
University of Warsaw 1978. From 1971 to 1984 taught sociology at
Institute of Sociology, University of Warsaw. From 1986 to 2003,
lecturer of sociology at Chuo University, Tokyo. From 2003, lecturer,
and from 2006 assistant professor at Nicolaus Copernicus University in
Torun, Poland.
In 1998, while living and working in Japan, together with a group of
friends started an Association of Poles in Japan, called Polish Club in
Japan, and became its first chairwoman (1998 – 2000). Between the year
2000 and 2003 had been the editor-in chief of the bimonthly “Gazette of
Polish Club in Japan”, published by the Polish Club in Japan.
Published books and papers in Polish and Japanese concerning ideas of
social equality and social structure („On the Idea of Social Equality”,
(in Polish), Warsaw 1983; „Social Inequalities in Poland“ (in Japanese)
in: Ishikawa A., Kawasaki Y. (ed.) „Shakaishugi to shakaiteki fubiodo”,
Tokyo 1983; „Japanese management practices“ (in Polish) in „Przegląd
Organizacji“, No. 6 - No 10/1988, Warsaw; „The Secret of Japanese
Success“ (in Polish), Warsaw 1990 (ed., with Ishikawa A.)), as well as
concerning women problems („Women’s Perception of Social Inequality”
(in Japanese) in: “Nihon shakai wa byodo ka”, Tokyo 1991; „Women in
Poland. Chained to the Pedestal” (in Japanese), in: „Slavu no shakai”,
Tokyo 1994; „Form and Content: Social Position of Women in Japan” (in
Polish) in: „Władza i struktura społeczna” (A.Jasińska-Kania & M.K.
Słomczyński ed.), Warsaw 1999; „Carousel with Madonnas” (in Japanese)
in „Chuo University Review” No. 228/1999; „Japan. The Women’s Country”
in the „Odra” monthly No. 11/515 November 2004; „Shaping of Patterns of
Family Life in Meiji Japan” (in Polish) in „Meiji Japan. From Tradition
to Modernity” (2006, forthcoming)). Translated into Polish „Memories of
Silk and Straw“ by dr Junichi Saga, and published it in Poland with a
grant from Suntory Foundation (Warsaw 2004).
Courses
taught in Japan included:
- Problems of women in Japanese society (in Japanese)
- Japanese social problems (in Japanese)
- Polish society and its social Pproblems (in Japanese)
- Transformation in Poland (in Japanese)
- Introduction to Polish sociology (graduate course, in English)
- Readings in sociology (graduate course, in English)
- Poland – the history and the present (in Japanese)
- Meiji Japan in the writings of Western visitors (in Japanese)
- Introduction to sociology of small groups (in Japanese)
- Sociology of everyday life (in Japanese)
After
coming back to Poland in 2003, the courses taught at Polish
universities included:
- Japanese society
- Cultural background of Japanese sexuality and its social forms
- The social environment of Tokyo
- Japan as seen by cultural anthropologists
- Theories of globalization
- Japanese transformation and the making of a „new Japanese nation“
- The stranger as „the other“ in European societies
- Japanese society as seen in Japanese movies
- The Polish intelligentsia and its cultural heritage
- Dialogs with Japan. Of misperceptions in mutual understanding
- Edo era Japan. Everyday life and popular amusements
Research
Interests
History of culture, ethnology of Poland, ethnology of Europe and Slavic
lands, anthropology of religions (including new religious movements,
New Age, neopaganism) and veneration of the saints, visual
anthropology, contemporary art and its social reception), relations of
traditional folk art with contemporary design, ethnomedicine.
My research interests lie in the possible practical application of the
knowledge provided by anthropology in many areas of life, such as
politics and business (negotiations, cross-cultural studies), culture
(new social and religious phenomena, contemporary art and functional
art).
Education
• 1993-1998: BA and MA studies in the field of ethnology at the
Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, Adam Mickiewicz
University in Poznań, BA dissertation: Strój jako forma komunikacji. Na
przykładzie stroju kobiet frakcji Ait Atqi – Tizgui plemienia Ait
Tidili (Clothes as Means of Communication: The Example of Women from
the Ait Atqi-Tizgui Fraction of the Ait Tidili Tribe), supervisor: Dr
Ryszard Vorbrich; MA dissertation: Nowoosadnictwo na obszarach
wiejskich jako próba realizacji alternatywnego stylu życia (New
Settlement in Rural Regions as an Attempt at an Alternative Lifestyle),
supervisor: Dr Czesław Robotycki.
• 1997-1999: Małopolski Uniwersytet Ludowy in Wzdów.
Since 1999, she has been working as an assistant lecturer at the
Ethnology Unit, Institute of Ethnology and Archaeology, Nicolaus
Copernicus University (Department of Ethnology since 2003). She is
writing her PhD thesis on the image of new settlers (i.e. people who
move to the country in order to experience an alternative way of life)
from the standpoint of the local community.
Research
Interests
• Anthropology of the present, especially anthropological analysis of
alternative trends in contemporary Polish culture.
• Anthropology of things (she is a follower and promoter of the
development of this trend in Polish ethnology).
• Cultural dimension of collecting and the art of museum exhibition.
Courses
Taught
• Etnografia Polski I (Ethnography of Poland I), non-lecture classes.
• Etnografia Polski II (Ethnography of Poland II), non-lecture classes.
• Etnografia Słowian (Ethnography of the Slavs), non-lecture classes
for Polish Studies students specialising in cultural studies.
• Etnografia społeczeństw plemiennych (Ethnography of Tribal
Communities), non-lecture classes for Archaeology students.
• Muzealnictwo (Museology), conversation seminar.
• Teoria kultury (Theory of Culture), non-lecture classes.
• Wstęp do etnologii (Introduction to Ethnology), non-lecture classes.
Important,
yet underestimated organisational responsibilities
• 2000-2004: Academic supervisor of the Ethnology Students Academic
Association (Koło Naukowe Studentów Etnologii) at the Nicolaus
Copernicus University.
• 2000-2004: Secretary of the Ethnology Examination Board.
• 2000-2006: Coordinator for the promotion of Ethnology studies as part
of the “Promocja Edukacyjna” promotional project organised by the
Nicolaus Copernicus University.
Research
Expeditions
1995: Atlas ’95 research expedition to Morocco, the final stage of the
Dr Ryszard Vorbrich’s teaching and research project “Laboratorium
integralne: Kultura Maghrebu” (“Integral Laboratory: the Culture of
Maghreb”) at the IAKiE UAM in Poznań.
Exhibitions
Co-organiser of the “W rytmie Derbuki. Życie codzienne i folklor
muzyczny Berberów marokańskich” (“In the Rythm of Darbuka: Everyday
Life and Musical Folklore of Moroccan Berbers”) ethnography and
photography exhibition, presenting the outcome of the Atlas ’95
research expedition at the Museum of Musical Instruments (Muzeum
Instrumentów Muzycznych) in Poznań, November 1995, and at the Śrem
Museum (Muzeum Śremskie) in Śrem, February 1996.
Projects
• 2002: Project consisting of the “Misteria” (“Mysteries”) photography
exhibition and the “Misterium obrzęd czy teatr” (“Mystery: Ritual or
Theatre”) discussion panel (co-organiser; project delivered as part of
the 3rd Festival of Science and Art, Nicolaus Copernicus University).
• 2004: Turkish Cinema Review (coordinator).
Academic
Organisations and Associations
Polish Ethnological Society (Polskie Towarzystwo Ludoznawcze), Toruń
branch: member since 2001; Board Member between 2002 and 2005;
Secretary of the Board since 2005.
Since 2004: Member of the Forum Akademickie founders’ group. Forum
Akademickie (the Academic Forum) is an organisation of young academics
representing various universities in Poland. Its purpose is to
integrate scholars specialising in humanities, and to establish a forum
for exchanging ideas by organising successive editions of Academic
Colloquia.
Non-Governmental
Organisations
Pracownia Działań Twórczych Association (since 2006 Stowarzyszenie
Instytut Małego Dziecka im. Astrid Lindgren) in Poznaniu: member since
1994 (participation in projects).
- dr Anna Nadolska - Styczyńska
Ethnologist and museologist. She is an assistant professor at the
Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, Nicolaus Copernicus
University in Toruń. For several years, she was also the Head of the
Section of the Non-European Countries Folk Cultures (Dział Kultur
Ludowych Krajów Pozaeuropejskich) at the Archaeological and
Ethnographic Museum (Muzeum Archeologiczne i Etnograficzne) in Łodź.
Research
Interests
Cultures of non-European countries and the history of Polish research
in this subject area; religious studies; museology.
- prof. Ewa Nowina - Sroczyńska
Research
Interests
• Myth, symbol, ritual, ceremonies rooted in folk cultures, and in
contemporary cultures.
• Anthropological analysis of works of art.
• Visual anthropology.
- prof. dr hab. Kazimierz Maliszewski
Research
Interests: History of culture, mentality and social
communication in the modern era.
- prof. dr hab. Janusz Małłek
Alumnus of the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń. The first Dean
of the University’s Faculty of History (1993-1999) and its Deputy
Vice-Chancellor between 1999 and 2002.
Corresponding member of the Polish Academy of Arts And Sciences (Polska
Akademia Umiejętności); Vice-President of: the International Committee
of State and Parliamentary Assemblies (Międzynarodowa Komisja
Zgromadzeń Stanowych i Parlamentarnych); Co-Chairman of the Polish and
German Lutheran Church Comission (Komisja Historii Kościołów
Luterańskich RP i RFN); Member of the Board: Verein für
Reformationsgeschichte; member of: Historische Kommission für ost- und
westprreussische Landesforschung; Zwingli Verein, Renaissance Soc. of
Amerika, and the Research Council for the Polish Biographical
Dictionary (Rada Naukowa Polskiego Słownika Biograficznego).
Author of more than four hundred academic publications.
Research
Interests
• History of Ducal Prussia and Royal Prussia (religious and cultural
identity of the inhabitants).
• History and culture of Scandinavia in the modern era.
• History and cultural contexts of the Reformation in Poland.
• Masurian regionalism.
• History of medicine.
- dr hab. Wojciech Olszewski
Born on 21 December 1957 in Toruń to a family steeped in Vilnian and
Pomeranian traditions (which produced a rich, yet explosive
combination).
His studies at the Department of Ethnography, Adam Mickiewicz
University in Poznań between 1976 and 1981 (a unique opportunity in
Communist Poland), were completed by the submission of the MA thesis
entitled Dystans etniczny Polacy-Cyganie na przykładzie dzielnicy
Poznania (The Ethnic Standoff Between Poles and Gypsies in a District
of Poznań), written under the supervision of Dr Zofia Staszczak.
The PhD thesis entitled Z dziejów wędkarstwa polskiego od końca wieku
XIX do czasów współczesnych. Studium etnograficzne (The History of
Angling in Poland from the late 19th Century to the Present: An
Ethnographic Study) was written under the supervision of Prof. Teresa
Dunin-Karwicka, and was successfully defended at a viva voce
examination in 1981, at the Faculty of Humanities, Nicolaus Copernicus
University in Toruń.
Between 1981 and 1987, he was employed at the Department of Fishery and
Related Activities (Dział Rybołówstwa i Innych Zajęć Wodnych) at the
Ethnographic Museum (Muzeum Etnograficzne in Toruń) in the capacity of
the Head of the Department. Since 1 April 1987, he has been working at
the Ethnography Unit, later the Ethnology Unit, and finally the
Department of Ethnology at the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń
(serving as the Head of the Department at the request of the
Department’s staff).
Academic
Interests
• History of the Polish ethnological thought.
• Theoretical considerations of cross-cultural relations.
• Cultural identity of the Polish Borderlands in 19th and 20th
centuries.
• Identity processes in today’s Europe.
• Angling as a cultural phenomenon.
Research
Interests
• Cultural contexts of ethnology: from folk to popular culture.
• Culture in the era of social and political transformation (national
and historical myths, the sense of ethnic and national identity).
• Popular culture: the aesthetics of Communist Poland.
- mgr Małgorzata Sokołowska
She graduated from the Department of Ethnology in 2004, and went on to
work at the Department.
Research
Interests
New identities at the interface of cultures (Europe, Asia, Africa, the
Caribbean).
About Us:
The Department of Ethnography and
Ethnology at the Nicolaus Copernicus University was established in 1945
by a newcomer from Vilnius, Maria Znamierowska-Prüfferowa, an assistant
professor at that time. It was her who put forward Prof. Bożena
Stelmachowska, an ethnologist from Poznań, for the position of the Head
of the Department. In 1956, after the death of Bożena Stelmachowska,
Prof. Maria Znamierowska-Prüfferowa assumed the post of the Head, and
was later succeeded by Prof. Jadwiga Klimaszewska, a professor from
Cracow. Subsequently, the post was assumed by Dr Teresa Dunin-Karwicka.
In 1976, the Department became part of the newly founded Institute of
Archaeology and Ethnography, Nicolaus Copernicus University (later:
Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology), and was renamed the
Ethnography Unit (later: Ethnology Unit). Until 2001, Prof. Teresa
Dunin-Karwicka was the Head of the Unit.
After the Department had been established, the academics began their
teaching, and the MA programme was launched. However, it had to be
abandoned due to political repression targeted by the state authorities
at the Nicolaus Copernicus University, and the last MA dissertations
were submitted in 1953.
In 1965, the Department ran Poland’s only Postgraduate Studies in
Ethnography. They have been offered on regular basis ever since, first
by the Ethnology Unit, and now by the Department of Ethnology.
Currently, the Postgraduate Studies in Ethnology are addressed at MA
graduate students of non-ethnological studies.
On 1 October 1999, after forty six years of absence, full-time MA
studies in ethnology were resumed.
On 1 January 2003, the Ethnology Unit was transformed into the
Department of Ethnology, with Dr hab. Wojciech Olszewski as the Head of
the
Department.
The Department of Ethnology is located at ul. Szosa Bydgoska 44/48; the
Department’s Library, which contains approximately ten thousand
volumes, is also located at the Department’s premises.
Other extensive library collections on ethnology are available to
students at the following libraries: the Nicolaus Copernicus University
Library in Toruń (Biblioteka Główna UMK), the Copernicus Library
(Książnica Kopernikańska) and the Ethnographic Museum in Toruń
(Biblioteka Muzeum Etnograficznego w Toruniu im. Marii
Znamierowskiej-Prüfferowej). The Department also works closely with the
Alliance Française Library.
Additionally, the Department collaborates with the Ethnographic Museum
(Muzeum Etnograficznym im. Marii Znamierowskiej-Prüfferowej) in Toruń,
the Museum of the Mazovian Countryside (Muzeum Wsi Mazowieckiej) in
Sierpc, and the Rev. Krzysztof Kluk Museum of Farming (Muzeum Rolnictwa
im. Ks. Krzysztofa Kluka) in Ciechanowiec. At these museums, classes
and field trips are scheduled for students to attend.
In 2003, the Department was assessed by the State Accreditation
Committee (Państwowa Komisja Akredytacyjna), and received positive
evaluation.
On 1 April 2007, the Department of Ethnology was transformed into the
Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology.
