Dr. Svetlana Ryzhakova

Dr. Svetlana Ryzhakova, a Leading Research Fellow in Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, Russian Academy of Science, Moscow. Member of Indian Anthropological Society, member of European Assosiation of Social Anthropologists. Her research interests lies within cultural anthropology and ethnology, mythology and performing studies. She has carries out extensive fieldwork in India and Baltic countries, exploring traditional culture and day-to-day life, local and ethnic identities, myth-making, invention of traditions, communitites engaged in arts and crafts creation and transmission. Her writings include books (Language of Ornament in Latvian Culture, 2002), Cultural Anthropology (with Dr. S. Arutiunov, 2004),   Indian Dance, an Art of Transformation (2004), Historica Lettica (2010), Cultura lettica (2017) and more, and numerous articles published in international journals. Since 1998 she lectures in Russian State University for Humanities and several other high schools.