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Soňa G. Lutherová is a social and visual anthropologist. As a senior researcher at the Institute of Ethnology and Social Anthropology of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, she focuses on the themes of identities, family, individual and social memory, and the material culture of home. She is also interested in applying innovative and reflexive methods in ethnographic research. She has taught, researched, and studied at the universities and research facilities in Slovakia, Sweden, the Czech Republic, and Austria. She is an author of a number of scientific papers in foreign and domestic journals and monographs. In 2017, she edited (with M. Hlinčíková) the book Beyond The Borders of Science? Applied Anthropology in Society. She is an editor of the scientific journal Slovak Ethnology. She is an author and director of the documentary films Flooded (AH production, The Slovak Radio and Television, The Slovak Film Institute, 2018) and A Happy Man (Azyl Production, Company F, HBO Max, 2023). She also focuses on the popularization of scientific knowledge; since 2021, she has been moderating the Scientific Podcast of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, and she has written a children's book Can superheroes wear glasses? (E.J. Publishing, 2019).