Tomasz Rakowski

Ethnologist, cultural anthropologist, expert in cultural studies, physician. Staff member at the Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology of the University of Warsaw. Co-operates with the Institute of Polish Culture, University of Warsaw. Conducts research in Poland and Mongolia. Explores grassroot development processes, the anthropology of contemporary and participative art, ethnographically oriented cultural animation, and state-of-the-art cultural research. Author of books Hunters, Gatherers, and Practitioners of Powerlessness: an Ethnography of the Degraded in Postsocialist Poland, Berghahn Books 2016, 2019, and Przepływy, współdziałania, kręgi możliwego. Antropologia powodzenia (Flows, Collaborations, Circles of the Possible. Anthropology of Success, 2019).