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Daiva Vaitkevičienė-Astramskaitė
Lithuanian folklorist
Daiva Vaitkevičienė-Astramskaitė[1] (born 1969, Panevėžys District, Lithuania[2]) is Lithuanian folklorist, Senior Researcher, Department of Oral Folklore of the Lithuanian Institute of Literature and Folklore [3]
During 1987-1992 she studied Lithuanistics at the Vilnius University. Since 1991 she works at the Lithuanian Institute of Literature and Folklore. Her main interests are in Lithuanian mythology[2] In 1999 she earned Ph.D. in humanitarian sciences, thesis Ugnies raiškos lietuvių ir latvių mitologijoje [Fire Expressions in Lithuanian and Latvian Mythology].
Member of the editorial board of Incantacio: An International Journal on Charms, Charmers and Charming.
She also teaches at the Vilnius University and is a member of the editorial team of its journal Semiotika.[4]
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