mgr Karolina Echaust

PhD Candidate, Department of Ethnology

Room: 2.13
Phone: 61 829 13 71
E-mail: ke05@amu.edu.pl

Office hours:

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Research interests

Environmental anthropology – multispecies relations, ethnography of global connections, more than human approach, human-animal studies, tree-beekeeping, beekeeping in the cultural anthropology context. Tree-beekeeping heritage in the context of the multispecies relations in the cultural anthropology. Cultural Heritage – Tangible, Intangible and Natural – protection of the Cultural and Natural Heritage; tree-beekeeping and beekeeping traditions crafts, beliefs and values. Museum Studies – museum education, folk crafts, folk-art. Urban Anthropology – Urban beekeepers and their bees as a form of protection of the Urban Natural Heritage. Folk-Culture – medicine and hygiene on the village; folk rites and magic in Poland.

Publications

Books:

2015 K. Echaust. Wągrowiecki County. Atlas of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of the Greater Poland village. Szreniawa: Muzeum Narodowe Rolnictwa i Przemysłu Rolno-Spożywczego.

 

Science article:

2019 K. Echaust, Selected Bee-keeping Magazines in the Context of Political and Social Changes in Poland, Warszawa: Instytut Rozwoju Wsi i Rolnictwa Polskiej Akademii Nauk, “Kwartalnik Wieś i Rolnictwo” t. 185, nr 4, DOI 10.7366/wir042019/05, s. 87-108.

Link: http://kwartalnik.irwirpan.waw.pl/741/kwartalnik-nr-4-185-2019

2019 K. Echaust, Tree Beekeeping in the Context of Cultural Ecology and the Protection of Intangible Cultural Heritage – Reflections after the Research Reconnaissance, „Łódzkie Studia Etnograficzne”, tom LVIII/2019, s. 159-170. ISSN 2450-5544. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.12775/LSE.2019.58.09

Link: https://apcz.umk.pl/czasopisma/index.php/LSE/article/view/27688/23550

2019 K. Echaust [review]. Urszula Szymak, Przemysław Sianko (edited by), Falconry – its influence on biodiversity and cultural heritage in Poland and cross Europe, Białystok: Ośrodek Edukacji Ekologicznej – Sokolarnia 2016, ss. 339, ISBN 978-83-87026-59-2 „LUD. Organ Polskiego Towarzystwa Ludoznawczego i Komitetu Nauk Etnologicznych PAN”, s. 433-439.

Link: https://apcz.umk.pl/czasopisma/index.php/LUD/article/view/20098/23999

2018 K. Echaust,  Beeswax candle casting tradition on the wheel in Biała near Płock, „Rocznik Muzeum Wsi Mazowieckiej w Sierpcu”, tom IX/2018, s. 77-90.

 

Conference paper:

 2020 K. Echaust Honey bee (Apis mellifera mellifera L.) – a resident of the Home garden. „Zwierzęta gospodarskie i tradycyjne rośliny uprawne w dziedzictwie kulturowym wsi” National Museum of Agriculture and Food Industry in Szreniawa., 2019, s. 80-87.

2018 K. Echaust Beekeeping In Mazovia region In the historical and cultural context. P. Michołap, E. M. Szymański (edited by). „Wybrane aspekty życia pszczół”. Zgorzelec: Górnołużyckie Stowarzyszenie Pszczelarzy w Zgorzelcu, s. 113-122.

 

Popular science paper:

2019 K. Echaust, Tree-beekeeping past and present, „Kultura Enter. Magazyn Internetowy”, nr  2019/ 03 nr 89.

Link: http://kulturaenter.pl/article/re-tradycja-bartnictwo-dawniej-i-dzis/?fbclid=IwAR0VJ8CbNMnSleePICvBloipS10w_nAfjH3tDEeR4QSBc3985Xkb55EOY7o

2019 K. Echaust, Analysis of the content of the strategy of the Greater Poland Voivodeship for environmental protection, ecology and biodiversity protection „Dziedzictwo Kulturowe Wsi”, nr 3/2019, s. 65-75.

2019 K. Echaust, V4 Heritage Academy: Management of UNESCO World Heritage Cultural Sites in Visegrad Countries 2019. Report. „Rocznik 34 Muzeum Narodowego Rolnictwa i Przemysłu Rolno-Spożywczego w Szreniawie”, National Museum of Agriculture and Food Industry, Szreniawa, 2019, s. 211-216.

2013 K. Echaust Social Museums from Wielkopolska and Ziemia Lubuska. „Przegląd Wielkopolski” nr 3 (101). Poznań: Wielkopolskie Towarzystwo Kulturalne, s. 32-35.

2010 K. Echaust Romanian Roma in Poznań. „Przegląd Wielkopolski” nr 4 (90). Poznań: Wielkopolskie Towarzystwo Kulturalne, 61-64.

Research projects

2019 Podkoziołek, Bery, Cymper – living tradition in Greater Poland, MKiDN 02835/18/FPK/DIK Z DNIA 19.09.2018 R. National Museum of Agriculture and Agri-Food in Szreniawa, Ministry of Culture and National Heritage.

2018-2019 Documentation of the intangible cultural heritage of the villages of the northern counties of the Greater Poland Voivodship. MKiDN EBOI: 106893/18. National Museum of Agriculture and Food Industry in Szreniawa, Ministry of Culture and National Heritage.

2013-2015 Localities through Mobility. Cultures of Motorway in Contemporary Europe. Institute of Anthropology and Ethnology UAM. NCN Opus 218958, UMO-2013/09/B/HS3/00624. National Science Centre.

2012-2016 Atlas niematerialnego dziedzictwa kulturowego wsi wielkopolskiej. No:11H 11 026580. National Museum of Agriculture and Food Industry in Szreniawa, Instytucja finansująca: Ministry of Science and Higher Education.

2015 Private cultural center. Research of the changing in culture. Organizator: Ari Ari Foundation in Bydgoszcz, no: EBOI – 45721/13/A1. Instytucja finansująca: Ministry of Culture and National Heritage.

2014 Separate libraries. Ari Ari Foundation in Bydgoszcz, no: EBOI – 45721/13/A1. Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, National Science Centre.

2013 Social Museums, local collections. Dynamics of changes in the cultural landscape. Ari Ari Foundation in Bydgoszcz, no: EBOI – 31822/12/A2. Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, National Centre For Culture

2010-2011 Foreigners in Poland. Cultural heterogeneity of metropolitan centers on the example of Poznań. Institute of Anthropology and Ethnology UAM. No: 2248/B/HO3/2009/36. Ministry of Science and Higher Education.

2009 Together for integration. Diagnosis of the preferences, expectations, and needs of disabled residents of Poznań. Foundation Institute of Research and Development of Social Activity in Poznań. Poznań City Hall, Department of Health and Social Affairs.

2009-2010 Local communities in uniting Europe: the example of Friday Ruska and Sapinta from the Carpathian Euroregion. Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, Adam Mickiewicz University.

2006-2007 Institutions of culture in the Greater Poland Voivodeship. Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology in Poznań, University of Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan.

Other

Membership:

Polish Ethnological Society

European Association for Critical Animal Studies (EACAS)

Volunteering:

2017: Gallery Attendant Volunteer, Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology w Cambridge, United Kingdom.

2017: Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland in London, United Kingdom. Student Fellowship 2017.

2016: Collection Care volunteer, National Army Museum in London-Stevenage, United Kingdom.

Academia.edu https://amu.academia.edu/KarolinaEchaust