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Contributors
Anton Angelov, troubadour@abv.bg
PhD, graduated Ethnology (BSc) and Ethnology and Cultural Studies (MA) in the Faculty of History in
Sofia University. In 2015, Angelov defended PhD thesis on the institutional control on popular music
under socialism in Bulgaria. His scientific interests lie in the fields of mass and consumption culture,
and everyday life during the socialist period. In 2015-2016 he worked as curator in the Ethnographic
Museum at the Institute for Ethnology and Folkloric Studies with Ethnographic Museum at the Bulgarian
Academy of Sciences.
Kamila Baraniecka-Olszewska, kamila.baraniecka@gmail.com
PhD, studied ethnology and Latin American studies. Since 2007 she has worked in the Institute of
Archaeology and Ethnology of Polish Academy of Sciences. Her main subject of interest has been the
anthropology of religion and performance studies, and, especially, forms of religious expression. In 2011
she defended her PhD thesis at the Warsaw University on participation in Polish Passion plays. Now she
finishes another project on historical reenactments in Poland and starts a project on multisensory religious
imageries in Catholic shrines. She is an author of articles dealing with contemporary religiosity and with
perceiving and representing history.
Ilkim Buke-Okyar, dibuke@gmail.com
PhD, currently teaches Middle East politics and society in various universities in Istanbul. She received her
PhD at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel, on Middle East History. Her dissertation was entitled
Arabs in Visual Rhetoric and the Emergence of Turkish National Identity (1923-1948). She received her MA
on the Middle East Studies at Isik University where she focused on the evolution of Islamic movements
into political parties with a case study of Hamas. Buke-Okyar completed her undergraduate studies in the
political science and administrative studies at the University of California, Riverside. Buke-Okyar has also
conducted research for projects such as the Arab-Israeli conflict, and the Shia-Sunni clash in the Middle
East in international conferences, and centre-periphery relations in Turkey's early republican period.
Wiadystaw Chlopicki, w.chlopicki@uj.edu.pl
PhD, senior lecturer at the Jagiellonian University and Krosno State College, Poland. Chlopicki is
a linguist, interested in pragmatics and discourse studies, and is engaged in the cross-cultural study of
the language of humor and communication styles. He is a member of the editorial team of the European
Journal of Humour Research and. Tertium Linguistic Journal.
Dominika Czarnecka, d.czarnecka@hotmail.com
PhD, cultural anthropologist, working for the Institute of Archeology and Ethnology of the Polish
Academy of Sciences. Czarneckas scientific interests are focused on the anthropology of the body, senses
and emotions, post-Cold War heritage in central and eastern Europe, and on human oddities.
Dagnostaw Demski, d.demski2@gmail.com
PhD, ethnologist, professor at the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology, Polish Academy of Sciences,
Warsaw. Demski’s 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 is the author of 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 the cycle of conferences
on visual representations of the Other and cooperates in editing publications from these conferences.
Raymond Detrez, Raymond. Detrez@Ugent.be
PhD, professor Emeritus of Balkan history and cultural studies at the universities of Ghent and Leuven
in Belgium.