Mgr. Barbora KYEREKO

Education

2019 – PhD candidate in Social and Cultural Anthropology, Faculty of Humanities, Charles University in Prague.

Dissertation: Ghana in cocoa, cocoa in Ghana: a study of Theobroma cacao L. within its parameters of time.

2018 MA in Philosophical Anthropology, Faculty of Humanities, Charles University in Prague (transferred to PhD programme).

2015  MSc in Tropical Botany, Faculty of Tropical AgriSciences, Czech University of Life Sciences, Prague.

Thesis: Traditional use of medicinal plants among local healers in Bié province, Angola.   

2012   BA in Ethnology and Art History, Faculty of Philosophy, Charles University in Prague.

Thesis: Masks in contemporary art.

Research interests

Ecological anthropology; multispecies etnography; anthropology of science and technology; philosophy of art; Sub-saharan Africa; cocoa.

Fellowships, grants

2021-2022: PhD Associate, CEFRES, Prague

2021-2022: Jan Hus Foundation Scholarship

2019: Josef Hlavka Foundation Talent Fellowship - PhD visiting student – Philosophy of Art - College of Fine Arts, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana.

2018, 2021: Mobility grant and FHS competition travel grant, Charles University - Ethnographic fieldwork – Cocoa Research Institute of Ghana.

2013: Internal grant FTZ, Czech University of Life Sciences, Prague and Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology: Ethnobotanical fieldwork - Agostinho Neto University Luanda, Angola.

2010-2011: Erasmus scholarship – Philosophy and Ethics, Cognitive anthropology. Faculté de Lettres et Sciences Humaines, Université de Nice Sophia Antipolis, France.

Selected bibliography

Articles

Kyereko, B., Duarte, M.C., Van Damme, P., Pudil, P., Mazancova, J., Polesny, Z. 2020. Medicinal plants used by ‘root doctors’, the local healers in Bié province, Angola. Journal of Ethnopharmacology. 260: 112662. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jep.2020.112662.

Conference papers

Kyereko, B. 2021. Theobroma – the food of Gods: Chocolate, truth and responsibility in Ghana and beyond. American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Baltimore, USA.

Novotna, B., Duarte, M.C., Van Damme, P., Mazancova, J., Polesny, Z., 2021. Ethnomedicinal use of plants among local healers in Bie province, Angola, 22nd AETFAT Congress, Livingstone, Zambia.

Kyereko, B. 2020. Cocoa in Ghana, Ghana in Cocoa: Theobroma cacao L. within its parameters of time. Vienna Anthropology Days – Vanda 2020, Vienna, Austria.

Novotna, B., Duarte, MC., Polesny, Z. 2015. Traditional use of medicinal plants among local healers in Bié province, Angola. Tropentag 2015. Berlin, Germany.  

Documentary movies

Novotna, B., Alvarez, M., Musil, M. 2013. The Shepherdess (Koňařka). Screened at the Summer School of Ethnography film making, Department of Anthropology, University of Western Bohemia, Pilsen, Czech Republic. https://vimeo.com/72180102.

Other

2015 Award from the Czech Ministry of Agriculture for the outstanding MSc thesis in the field of natural sciences and environmental protection. Thesis: Traditional use of medicinal plants among local healers in Bié province, Angola.