Our Work
The activities of the team include:
- conducting ethnographic and anthropological research on liberal arts and social studies in interdisciplinary teams,
- collaborating with the non-academic environment, with the representatives of creative industries and the business world,
- conducting qualitative research with the goal of diagnosing the needs and preferences of consumers in the context of tailoring user-focused targets (user experience),
- collaborating with research institutions, artistic institutions as well as national and international partners,
- organising educational and academic events (conferences, seminars, workshops, lectures),
- taking on research and organisational undertakings as part of the collaborations,
- opening up dialogue between the researchers and the students of University of Silesia who use the qualitative studies in the ethnographic perspective,
- supporting academic teaching through initiatives resulting from the research conducted.
Our approach is based on academic and research collaborations with a number of institutions in Poland and abroad. Our most prominent partners include:
Academic centres and associations
University of Ostrava (Czechia), Università degli Studi del Molise (Italy), University of Novi Sad (Serbia), Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice, Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Katowice, University of Administration in Bielsko-Biała, Institute of Nature Conservation of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Polish Ethnological Society, International Organization of Folk Art – IOV World, European Association of Social Anthropologists, International Society for Ethnology and Folklore, International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, La Asociación Cultural La Tanguilla, Game Research Association of Poland
Cultural institutions
National Institute of Cultural Heritage, Cieszyn Castle, Cieszyn Library, Stanisław Brzozowski Association – Krytyka Polityczna, Guido Coal Mining Museum in Zabrze, Museum of Cieszyn Silesia, Valašské muzeum v přírodě v Rožnově pod Radhoštěm, National Museum of Agriculture in Szreniawa, Pszczyna Land Lovers Association, Regional Product Centre in Koniaków, Koniaków Lace Centre, Odlewnia Kultury Foundation in Węgierska Górka, Cultural Centre of Sandomierz
Economic sector/creative industries/local stakeholders
Congress of Poles in the Czech Republic, Polish Cultural and Educational Union, PTTK Central Mountaineering Centre in Kraków, Stowarzyszenie Pomocy Niepełnosprawnym “Skarbek” in Mysłowice, OSP Cieszyn-Mnisztwo
Polski Atlas Etnograficzny
to unikalny projekt badawczy dokumentujący bogactwo kultury ludowej Polski, realizowany przez etnologów i antropologów z Uniwersytetu Śląskiego.
Nasze publikacje
książki oraz czasopismo naukowe Studia Etnologiczne i Antropologiczne, stanowią cenne źródło wiedzy o kulturze, tradycji i współczesnych przemianach społecznych.
Podcast Antropologiczny Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
książki oraz czasopismo naukowe Studia Etnologiczne i Antropologiczne, stanowią cenne źródło wiedzy o kulturze, tradycji i współczesnych przemianach społecznych.