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Notes on Contributors and Editors

Source: Anthropological Yearbook of European Cultures, Vol. 15, Anthropological
Perspectives on Social Memory (2006), pp. 143-147
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Notes on Contributors and Editors

Alice Bellagamba, (PhD) is Associate Professor of Cultural Anthro-

pology and African Studies at the University of Milano-Bicocca. Du-
ring the 2004 - 2005 academic year, she was Alexander Von Hum-
boldt Fellow at the University of Bayreuth. Her researches have deve-
loped in the spaces between anthropology and history, with a special
attention to colonialism, historical memories and political processes
at the local level. Publications include

2002. Ethnographie, histoire et colonialisme en Gambie. Paris:

L'Harmattan;
2004. Portrait of a chief between past and present. Memory at work in
colonial and post-colonial Gambia. Political and Legal Anthropology
Review 25(2): 21-49;
2004. Entrustment and its changing political meanings in Fuladu, The
Gambia, 1880-1994. Africa (International African Institute), 74(3):
383-410.

Contact details: Dipartimento di Scienze Umane per la Formazione 'Ric-

cardo Massa' Università di Milano Bicocca, Piazza dell'Ateneo Nuo-
vo 1, 20126 Milano.
Email: alice. bellagamba @ unimib. it

Barbara Bossak, (MA) is a Doctoral student at the Institute of Socio

logy, Warsaw University. Her main fields of research include visual
anthropology and identity problems in the contemporary world. Pu-
blications include

2004. Tolerancja i jej granice w relacjach miçdzykulturowych - przegl^d

problemów wspólczesnej antropologii [Tolerance In Multicultural
Relations. Anhropological Contemporary Issues]. Kultura i Spolec-
zerìstwo [Culture and Society] XLVm nr 3;
2005. Wirtualny pejzaž kulturowy miast - Gdaňsk, Sopot, Gdynia [The
Virtual Landscape of the Cities - Gdansk, Sopot, Gdynia]. Kultura i
Spoleczeňstwo [Culture and Society] XLXX nr 1;
2005. Sopot - próby wskrzeszania miedzykulturowego dialogu w prze-
strzeni miasta [Sopot - the endeavours of enlivening intercultural dia-
logue in city space]. In A. Koseski & A. Stawarz (eds.), Przestrzenie
miedzykulturowego dialogu we wspólczesnych miastach Polski [The
spaces of intercultural dialogue in contemporary Polish cities]. Wars-
zawa: Pultusk.

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Notes on Contributors and Editors

Contact details: Barbara Bossak, ul. Symfonii 4/ 25, 02 - 786, Wa

Poland.

Email: bessar@poczta.onet.pl bossakb@is.uw.edu.pl

Petri Hautaniemi, (PhD) is a researcher at the Institute of Develop-

ment Studies, University of Helsinki. His main fields of research are
the anthropology of children, kinship and the transnational organi-
zation of care. Hautaniemi's current project on street children in St.
Petersburg takes a critical look at a recently emerged transnational
governance at the same time that it aims at a deeper understanding
of the position of children who have fallen beyond the bounds of the
safety networks provided by families and educational institutions. Pu-
blications include

2004. Pojat! Somalipoikien kiistanalainen nuoruus Suomessa [Lads!

Contested childhood of Somali youngsters in Finland] Helsinki: Nuo-
ristotutkimusverkosto;
2006 (forthcoming). Connecting Genes - Building Families: DNA-
Testing in Somali Family Reunification in Finland. In S. Bjork & A.
Kusow (eds.), Blurred Boundaries and Transformed Identities: Con-
ceptualizing the Contemporary African Diaspora.

Contact details: Institute of Development Studies, P.O. Box 59 (Unio-

ninkatu 38 E) 00014 University of Helsinki, Finland.
Email : petri. hautaniemi @ helsinki.fi

Andrew Irving, (PhD) is currently on a writing fellowship at the Cen-

tre for Cosmopolitan Studies, Concordia University, Montreal. He is
also affiliated to the Department of Anthropology, University of Man-
chester as a lecturer. His research explores how the world appears to
people close to death, particularly in relation to the aesthetic appre-
ciation of time, existence and otherness. It involves detailed ethnogra-
phic comparisons of living with HTV/AIDS within different cultural
contexts so as to understand how culture, religion and gender mediate
people's experiences of illness, death and dying. Publications include
2005. Life Made Strange: An Essay on the Reinhabitation of Bodies and
Landscapes. In W. James & D. Mills (eds.). Qualities of Time: ASA
Monograph 41. Oxford/ NY: Berg;
2006. The Colour of Pain. Journal of Cosmopolitan Studies Research
Papers;

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 Notes on Contributors and Editors

2007 (forthcoming). Ethnography, Art and Death. Journal of

Anthropological Institute.

Contact Details: Andrew Irving, Garden Flat, 6a Hazlitt Road,

W14 OJY.

Email: andrew.irving4@virgin.net Tel: 020 - 7602-1027

Helena Jerman, (PhD) is a researcher at the Institute of Development

Studies, University of Helsinki. Her main fields of research are the
development of ethnicity and identity in a Tanzanian as well as in a
Finnish-Russian borderland context; social memory, culture and de-
velopment; methodological questions and participatory research ap-
proaches. Publications include
1997. Between Five Lines: the Development of Ethnicity in Tanzania
with Special Reference to the Western Bagamoyo District. Helsin-
ki/Uppsala: Finnish Anthropological Society; Nordic Africa Institute
(Transactions of the Finnish Anthropological Society; No. 38; Jipe-
moyo, Development and Culture research 8);
2004. Russians as Presented in TV Documentaries. The Global Review
of Ethnopolitics Vol III, No. 2, January: 79-88;
2006. OnbiT ^najiorHHecKoro H3yTieHHH h^chthhhocth pyccKoro
MeHuiHCTBa B Ohhjihhâhh. [Reflections on Identity in Dialogues.
Experience of Sessions with Members of the Hidden Russian Mino-
rity in Finland]. Jļ uacnopu/Diasporas 1: 148-170.
Contact details: Institute of Development Studies, P.O. Box 59 (Unionin-
katu 38 E), 00014 University of Helsinki, Finland.
Email: helena.jerman@helsinki.fi

Sharon Macdonald, (DPhil) is Professor of Social Anthropology at

the University of Manchester. She worked previously at the Universi-
ty of Sheffield, and prior to that at the University of Keele. Her main
fields of research are the anthropology of identity, history, memory
and science; with particular emphasis on museums and, geographi-
cally, on Europe. Publications include
1997. Reimagining Culture: Histories, Identities and the Gaelic Re-
naissance. Oxford/NY: Berg; 2002. Behind the Scenes at the Science
Museum. Oxford/NY: Berg;
2006. The Companion to Museum Studies (ed.). Oxford/NY: Blackwell.

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Current address: Department of Social Anthropology, Roscoe Buil

University of Manchester, Manchester, UK.
Email: sharon.macdonald@man.ac.uk

Tomasz Rakowski has a Master's degree in Ethnology and Cultural

Anthropology. He is also a Medical Doctor. Rakowski is presently a
postgraduate/doctorate student at the Institute of Polish Culture, War-
saw University and in addition works as a teacher at the Institute of
Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, Warsaw University. His main
fields of research are cultural dimensions of social trauma, culture of
poverty, anthropology of the body, transition of nomadic economics
in Northern Mongolia, and studies on culture and environment. Pu-
blications include

2004. The Gift, the Taiga, the Shaman's Ritual. A Tribute to Ethnography
of The Tsaatans, Pro Etimologia (Culture and Environments), 18;
2006. Zwischen Sammeltätigkeit und Archäologie. Erfahrungen von Ge-
schichte und Gegenwart in der Polonischen Westgebiten, in P. Löew,
Ch. Pietzing, T. Serrier (eds.), Wiedergewonnene Geschichte. Zur
Aneignung von Vergangenheit in den Zwischenräumen Mittleuro-
pas (19.-20. Jahrhundert), Darmstadt: Deutsches-Polen Institut (in
press);
2006. Gatherers of Central Poland. A Field Study, Anthropology Matters
Journal, 8.

Contact details: Tomasz Rakowski, Institute of Polish Culture, Warsaw

University, Ul. Krakowskie Przedmieoecie 26/28, 00-927 Warszawa,
Poland.

Email: tomaszrak@tlen.pl

Elia Vardaki (DPhil) is currently a Researcher in the "Mediterranean

Project" EUROMED HERITAGE H, Department of Sociology, Insti-
tute of Social Sciences, University of Crete. She worked formerly as
a Lecturer in the Department of Art Sciences, University of Ioannina
(2002-4) and prior to that as a Researcher of Social Anthropolo-
gy, Kythera Island Project, University College London, University of
London (2000-1). Her main fields of research are anthropology of
material culture, immigration, visual anthropology, anthropology and
archaeology of food consumption. Publications include

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2003. Consumption strategies in a highland village of central Crete:

riage banquets as a case study. In C. Gamble, P. Halstead, Y. Ham
lakis and E. Kotjabopoulou (eds.), Zooarchaeology in Greece: N
Directions, ( BS A ) British School at Athens suppl. London, 297 - 3
2004. Animal husbandry revisited: the social significance of meat
sumption in a highland village of Psiloritis in Crete. In P. Halst
and J. Barrett (eds.), Food, Cuisine and Society in Prehistoric Gr
Oxford: Oxbow, 196 - 205;
2006. Home and/or Exile: Migration and Cultural Initiatives at the t
of Chania, director, Hronis Theocharis, Elia Vardaki. Produced b
University of Crete, London Metropolitan University, financed
EU/EuropeAid Office/EUROMED HERITAGE II. (Documentary
Contact details: Ag. Lavras 4b, Crete, Greece.
Email: elvar@otenet.gr

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