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U 542 Contributors Kamila Baraniecka-Olszewska kamila.baraniecka@gmail.com Anthropologist, PhD, working in the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences. She has conducted research on Polish Passion Plays. Currently she is investigating the historical reenactment movement. Her scientific interests focus on the anthropology of religion and on the visual aspects of culture representation. She has published several articles concerning Polish religiosity, participation in Catholic events, and Passion Plays. She authored a book on Easter Plays: Ukrzyzowani. Wspötczesne misteria meki Panskiej w Polsce (Crucified. Contemporary Polish Passion Plays) (2013). Joanna Bartuszek kipczatka@poczta.onet.pl Ethnologist, graduate of the Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology of Warsaw University, lecturer, assistant manager at the Department of Archives, Film and Photographic Documentation of the State Ethnographical Museum in Warsaw (SEM). Author of the book Between Representation and “Lifeless” Paper. The Significance and Function of Peasant Family Photograph (2005) and several articles on related topics; the latest examines the problem of identification of photographic collections in museums (The New Ethnography [2012]). She was a creator of an exhibition of the SEM in 2006, which focused on the image of the Hutsuls and their region in the archival and photographic collection of the SEM. Her academic and professional interests center around visual anthropology, especially the role of photography and other iconographic materials in ethnology and museology. Dagnostaw Demski d.demski2@gmail.com Ethnologist, PhD, professor at the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, and at the Nikolaus Copernicus University in Torun. Research areas include ethnicity, border studies, folk religion and ritual studies, visual culture, and humor. Two larger field areas are eastern and central Europe (Baltic states, Belarus, Ukraine, Hungary, Slovakia, Balkan states) and South Asia (India, Pakistan). He wrote the book titled Obrazy hinduizmu. Kultura i religia radéputow i pasterzy (Images of Hinduism. Culture and Religion Through the Eyes of Rajputs and Shepherds), published in 2007. He organizes a cycle of conferences and cooperates in editing publications on visual representations of the Other. Barbara Derler barbara.derler@uni-graz.at Researcher at the Institute of History, Southeast European History and Anthropology, at the University of Graz, Austria. She studied history, philosophy, education science, and psychology at the universities of Vienna and Graz. Currently she is working on a project that examines the visualization of the Bosnian people in photography and on picture postcards before WW II, which is also the focus of her doctoral studies. Her research interests focus on the modern and contemporary history of the countries of the former Yugoslavia and include the visual culture, the history of photography, gender, ethnicity, and migration. Ana Djordjevié ana.djordjevic@uni-graz.at Graduated in Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Vienna, Austria (2007). She is currently finishing her PhD on the topic of “Studio Photography and Social Change in Belgrade at the Turn of the 20" Century” as part of the Austrian Science Fund funded project “Visualizing Family, Gender Relations, and the Body. The Balkans approx. 1860-1950 (2010-2013)” at the University of Graz. Before joining the University of Graz’s project team, she gained work experience in international companies and organizations such as the Institute for International Research (IIR) and the International Organization for Migration (IOM). Her current research interests center on visual studies, with a particular focus on representations, othering, and identity building. Since November 2010 she has been the editorial assistant of the academic journal Nationalities Papers. Gailite Gundega rdmvgundega@inbox.lv MA, Riga School of Design and Art. She is an art history teacher working of her PhD dissertation at the Latvian Academy of Arts. The topic of her research is the history of Latvian caricatures from the beginning up to 1920. She has published several articles on the subject of caricature, includ
