PhD student and Junior research associate at the Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore

Email: Kaniava.andrius@gmail.com

Since 2017. PhD student in Ethnology. Working title of Phd thesis: “Lithuanian sacred sites: concept and definition”. Thesis focuses on phenomenology and human relationship with a place in forms of folklore, mythology and literature.

Works at the Institute since 2019 as junior research associate in project “Re-storied Sites and Routes as Inclusive Spaces and Places: Shared Imaginations and Multi-layered Heritage”.

Research interests: phenomenology, phenomenological philosophy, relationship with a place, pre-Christian sacred sites, post-processual archaeology, indigenous culture.

MAIN PUBLICATIONS

Research articles

1. Kaniava A. Pasakojimo keliu: santykio su vieta tyrimas [Walking along the Story Road: Research on Relationship with Place], Tautosakos darbai, 2019, t.57, p. 13–33. (in Lithuanian, summary in English).
2. Kaniava, A. Tirti patiriant: nauja šventviečių tyrimo prieiga [To study through experience: new access to the study of sacred places], Liaudies kultūra, 2019, Nr. 1, p. 43–53. (in Lithuanian, summary in English).