FEAST As a Mirror of Social and Cultural Changes

201 Notes on Contributors rently she is involved in the Horizon 2020 project “Cultural Heritage and Identities of Europe’s Future” (CHIEF; 2018–2021) funded by the European Commission. E-mail: ilze.kacane@du.lv Tatiana Minniyakhmetova, PhD in Ethnology (1996, Russian Academy of Sciences) and PhD in Folklore (2003, University of Tartu, Estonia). Independent researcher based in Innsbruck, Austria. Academic interests and field of research: traditional beliefs of the Udmurts and Finno-Ugric, Turkic, Russian ethnic groups of the Volga-Ural region (Russia), folk calendar, ritual, ritual practice, ritual folklore, field-work methodology, diaspora groups. She had conducted 73 field expeditions and is an author and a co-author of eight books, and more than 200 articles. László Mód, PhD, assistant professor at the Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology (University of Szeged, Hungary), secretary of the SIEF Space-lore and Place-lore Working Group, member of the editorial board of Acta Ethnographica Hungarica, main field of interest: cultural heritage, museology. Marek Moroń, PhD, is a lecturer at the Center of Comparative Studies of Civilizations at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland. His primary academic interests are nation-building and nationalism in South Asia. Dr. Moroń is a former diplomat. He served as a consul general of Poland in Mumbai (2001–2007) and, before that, he worked in Kolkata and Tehran. He is actively involved in interfaith dialogue and promotion of knowledge about European Islam and Muslim communities in Central and Southern Europe. He has written a number of academic works, published in Poland and India. Ewa Nowicka, Prof. Dr. habil., social anthropologist and sociologist, founder of the Department Section of Social Anthropology at the Institute of Sociology in the University of Warsaw, a member of the Committee of Migration and Polonia Studies (Polish Academy of Sciences, PAoS), member of the Committee of Ethnological Sciences (PAoS) and the Balkan Studies Commission (PAoS), member of the European Association of Social Anthropologists. She is the author of the handbook of social anthropology Świat Człowieka – Świat Kultury [The World of Man – The World of Culture] and numerous books and articles on issues of familiarity and

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