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Acknowledgements
The last conference in the series dedicated to the study of the Other in images
from Eastern and Central Europe was held in Estonia, Tartu. It was the result of
the efforts of many people and institutions to whom and to which we would like
to express our particular gratitude. In the first instance we would like to thank the
Estonian Literary Museum in Tartu, which hosted the conference. Ihe Depart¬
ment of Folkloristics, and its employees’ commitment and efforts in organising the
conference, resulted in a high-level scientific meeting with a friendly atmosphere.
We owe deep gratitude to Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Tallinn for
their kind support. Our thanks go also to the British Council in Estonia for their
contribution. We would like to mention institutions with which we cooperated
in preparing the conference and research presented therein: the result we achieved
would not have been possible without the support of the Estonian National En¬
dowment and the National Archives of Estonia.
The conference was also successful due to the institutions that financed our pro¬
ject. We owe special thanks to Estonian Science Foundation grant nos 8149 and
IUT 22-5, and above all to the National Programme of Developing Humanistics of
the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education, grant no. 12H 12 0069 81
which supported not only research but also the publication of this volume.
This project, dealing with visual representations of the Other, has been, since
its very beginning, a cooperative effort between four institutes, to which we
express our gratitude for their constant support: the Institute of Ethnology, Czech
Academy of Sciences; the Institute of Ethnology, Research Centre for Humanities
Hungarian Academy of Sciences; the Institute of Ethnology, Slovak Academy of
Sciences, Department of Ethnology; the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology,
Polish Academy of Sciences.
And last but not least, we would like to thank to all conference participants and
contributors to this volume who made the event in Tartu unforgettable and made
producing this book a great pleasure and satisfaction.