The book concerns the collective and cultural memory of the Lemko community, a small ethnic group living in Poland and Ukraine (considered also as an ethnographic group of Ukrainian nation or as the members of Rusyn nation, living in the Carpathian Mountains region). Most of them live scattered in western Poland and western Ukraine as a result of deportations which the group experienced at the end of the Second World War and due to the postwar circumstances in the communist Poland (1944–1947).
About the Author
Patrycja Trzeszczyńska, Post-doctoral degree (Polish dr hab.) - anthropologist and specialist on Ukrainian studies, works at the Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology of Jagiellonian University. Research interests: migration, diaspora, ethnic minorities, memory, gender studies, diaspora-making processes in Central and East Europe. Author of publications on anthropological research on diaspora, memory and migration.
LanguagePolish
Title in EnglishThe Lemko Land remembered : the stories about the past and the space