INTRODUCTION: THE END OF THE "POST"? BELARUSIAN ETHNOLOGY AND ANTHROPOLOGY AFTER THE SOVIET ERA

Stepan Zakharkevich

Published: 2025-12-23

Vol. 46 (2025)

INTRODUCTION

Stepan Zakharkevich

Abstract

The idea for this issue was born in the summer of 2024, during a conference in Sanok, Poland, devoted to building dialogue between Polish and Ukrainian anthropologists. The organisers invited Katarzyna Waszczyńska and Stsiapan Zakharkevich to introduce the participants to the situation of ethnology in and of Belarus, in the form of a discussion panel. Anna Engelking, a co-editor of this special issue, was also present during this conference. This special issue can be seen as an extension of this event.

We decided not to narrow the issue to a specific topic or issue, but to take a generalist approach. Our question has been: How diverse are the approaches among ethnologists, anthropologists, ethnographers – whatever they call themselves – who are engaged with Belarus both as researchers as well as citizens? What issues do they address? What methods do they use? What theoretical fields do they refer to?

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Zakharkevich, S. (2025). INTRODUCTION: THE END OF THE "POST"? BELARUSIAN ETHNOLOGY AND ANTHROPOLOGY AFTER THE SOVIET ERA. Ethnologia Polona, 46, 5–16. Retrieved from https://journals.iaepan.pl/ethp/article/view/4263

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