The Source of Identity in Contemporary Japan. The Anthropological Approach

is a Cultural Anthropologist and Japanologist. A graduate of ethnology at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań and folkloristics at the National Institute for Humanities in Sakura (Japan). Earned doctoral degree in cultural anthropology (field of Non-European societies and cultures/Japan). Currently associated with the University of Gdańsk (associate professor at the Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology and Department of Sinology) and Tokyo Metropolitan University (as guest lecturer). Holder of Scholarship granted by the Japanese government in 2007-2009, 2015-2016 and 2019-2020. Author of numerous publications about Japanese culture and history of anthropology.

a PhD student at University of Gdansk, Department of History, cultural anthropology and archaeology graduate from Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan. Since her studies in Poznan she was interested in Asian culture, specially Japan. She visited Japan, South Korea and China for research and workshop purposes. Her area of focus is Japanese traditions, cultural changes, rites of passage, funerals and the cult of the dead from archaeological, historical and ethnographical perspective. Recently she has taken up an analysis of visual materials (TV shows, films, journalism media) and a topic of what is the presentation and the effect of the funerals in globally accessible media.