Dr hab. Zbigniew Benedyktowicz
Dr Tomasz Szerszeń
Mgr Danuta Benedyktowicz
Mgr Justyna Chmielewska

Tel.: (+48 22) 50 48 243

General research fields: cultural theory and history, ethnography, fieldwork results, source texts, documentation of modern research tendencies and related discussions, naïve, popular and mass art, phenomena in contemporary culture.

Detailed research fields: anthropology of the symbolic imagination (myths, signs, symbols, meaning, interpretation), anthropology of contemporary culture (anthropology of cities, visual anthropology, the anthropology of photography and film), anthropology straddling the worlds of science and art (anthropology and art, theatre, literature, e.g. the relationships between anthropology and ethnology and surrealism, ethnographic surrealism), the anthropology of theatre (theatre “infected by anthropology” – Grotowski, “Gardzienice”, Chorea – Ancient Orchestra, Liturgical Drama – The Musical School /Schola/ of the “Węgajty” Theatre, contemporary independent art groups and the contemporary return to the source, niche phenomena), the interdisciplinary nature of modern humanities and the interpretation of cultural and artistic phenomena.