Michal Uhrin
RESEARCH FELLOW
From 2020 onwards I have been working as an assistant professor at the Department Archeology and Cultural anthropology, Faculty of Arts, Comenius University in Bratislava. I teach courses related to the theory and methodology of cultural anthropology, methodological foundations of ethnographic research, anthropology of religion, kinship, cooperation, and evolutionary anthropology. I have supervised several bachelor and master theses and has also been the opponent of several bachelor, diploma, and dissertation theses, both in Slovakia and abroad (Czechia).
I have done ethnographic research on religion and cooperation in Slovak rural environments and mating preferences in urban environments, and numerous articles focused on the complex relationship between kinship, religion, and various forms of cooperation. All my previous research is framed by theoretical concepts of evolutionary and cognitive anthropology, focusing on theories related to religion, cooperation, and rituals. As a part of the DEAGENCY project, I am conducting ethnographic research focused on various aspects related to the agency of the dead in the rural environment of central Slovakia.
MAIN PUBLICATIONS (BOOKS AND EDITORSHIP)
FIELDS OF INTEREST:
Anthropology of religion
Evolutionary anthropology
Cognitive anthropology
Theory, methodology and history of ethnology and sociocultural anthropology
