Journal of Ethnology and Folkloristics

09/08/2024

Our special issue about the Finno-Ugric religious practices is out, Eva Toulouze and Laur Vallikivi accomplished an introductory essay "Living Animisms and Monotheisms in the Finno-Ugric World" DOI: 10.2478/jef-2024-0002

22/07/2024

The functionality of vernacular is perceptual, indeed imaginary, rather than empirical.
Simon Bronner “The (Mal)Functionality of Vernacular”, see more https://doi.org/10.2478/jef-2024-0001

08/06/2024

JEF Volume 18, No. 1 (2024), a special issue ”Living Animisms and Monotheisms in the Finno-Ugric World” is published by now. We summarised the content to provide an insight into topics touched upon in the collection.

08/05/2024

How does the unbelievable become believable? Bengt Af Klintberg discusses this problem in his paper "The Baby on the Track: A Newspaper Legend with Roots in the 19th Century":
https://doi.org/10.2478/jef-2023-0023

06/05/2024

Kia Andell discusses the weird experiences of the Finns in her article "“That Must Have Been Uncanny!” Experiences of Invisible Others in Contemporary Finland".

https://doi.org/10.2478/jef-2023-0022

01/05/2024

Michele Tita and Kareng Ronghangpi
"The Relationship Between the Karbi and the Dense Forest Environment: The Role of the Kenglong-Po and Other Entities”:

Тhere is a parallel between the Kenglong-po’s loss of humanlike features and the non-anthropic space where he ends up living.

https://doi.org/10.2478/jef-2023-0021

03/04/2024

Meruyert Yegizbayeva, Mukhtarbek Karimov, Gulnara Kozgambaeva, Ainur Beisegulova and Natalya Soikina discuss the Kazakh Pregnancy, Childbirth and Childcare Traditions.
https://doi.org/10.2478/jef-2023-0020

28/03/2024

Aivaras Jefanovas and Donatas Brandišauskas wrote about wolves and other beings in the article: “Wolves as Enemy of the Soviet State: Policies and Implications of Predator Management in Yakutia”, https://doi.org/10.2478/jef-2023-0019

25/03/2024

Magdalena Slavkova writes about the Roma faith as a tool for solving social problems, see: “Faith and Overcoming Trauma in an Evangelical Romani Community”
https://doi.org/10.2478/jef-2023-0018

15/03/2024

Artūrs Pokšāns explores the Latvian experience of boarding schools, see: “A Post-Socialist Residential School and the Continuum of Violence", https://doi.org/10.2478/jef-2023-0017

07/03/2024

How to face a tragic past, see Oleksandr Kolomyichuk "“I Had No Childhood”: A Trauma History of Deported Ukrainians from Western Boykivshchyna"

The article is devoted to the trauma history of Ukrainians from Western Boykivshchyna, part of the Boykivshchyna ethnographical region situated in modern Ukraine. Operation Vistula (1947–1950) was the forced resettlement of more than 150,000 Ukrainians and mixed Polish-Ukrainian families from the ...

15/02/2024

Iryna Koval-Fuchylo discusses memories evoked by the war in her article "Two Wars for One Life: Verbalisation of Experience During the War".
https://doi.org/10.2478/jef-2023-0015

12/02/2024

Professor Ülo Valk discusses the concept of 'vernacular':
https://doi.org/10.2478/jef-2023-0014

24/01/2024

The new issue of JEF is out!
https://sciendo.com/issue/JEF/17/2

30/11/2023

Dmitrii Nosov discusses ways of fighting the evil in his paper “How to Defeat a Demon: The Function of the Oirat Folk Narrative about Burning the Female Devil” https://doi.org/10.2478/jef-2023-0009

"Tales about Argachi conveyed knowledge about effective strategies of behaviour in litigation, interaction with a representative of authority or a demonological creature."

22/11/2023

Ilya Gruntov and Olga Mazo "Cat Spirits in North-Western China: Worship Practices, Origin, and External Relations" https://doi.org/10.2478/jef-2023-0008
The paper introduces Chinese, Tibetan and Mongolian cat spirits as family spirits and guardians of wealth and property, but possessing resentful and revengeful personalities.

11/10/2023

Mark Bender discusses ecogenealogy in epic. See the Open Access article “Seeking an ‘Ideal Place’ in a Nuosu Origin Epic”:

Abstract The Book of Origins (hnewo tepyy) is a major ritual text of the Nuosu, a subgroup of the official Yi (Yizu) ethnic group of southwest China. The narrative, existing in both written and oral variants, is part of a living tradition, especially among priests (bimo) and folk singers, in the Lia...

13/09/2023

Ekaterina Zavidovskaya discusses connection between gods and humans in her article “The Cult of the Chinese God Guan Yu in the Studies of Russian Sinologists: Fieldwork Observations, Approaches, Methodology”. Open Access!

Abstract The paper explores materials, methods and approaches used by Russian sinologists to define and analyse the cult of Guan Yu (also known as Guan-gong, Guandi, etc.), a popular god of the Chinese pantheon, revered by Daoists, Buddhists and educated Confucians, and who was also granted a number...

16/08/2023

Rostislav Berezkin takes a look on Chinese popular religion in the paper “New Religious Teachings and Narrative Baojuan in the Late 19th Century: The Example of the Complete Recension of the Scroll of Mulian"
https://sciendo.com/article/10.2478/jef-2023-0004

03/08/2023

The first article of the latest special issue deals with Chinese magic tales: https://sciendo.com/article/10.2478/jef-2023-0003

20/07/2023

“Preface to the Special Issue: The Divine, The Demonic and the Beyond in Belief, Narrative and Practice of Central and East Asia” by Alya Solovyeva, see: https://sciendo.com/article/10.2478/jef-2023-0002

19/12/2022

The special issue of JEF about ethnic and religious hybridity is out!

27/09/2022

A couple of years ago, ethnography in the Arctic was an intimate endeavour, as Editor-in-Chief Art Leete discussed back then. By now, it is all about politics and despair.

31/08/2022

Summary of topics the authors of the Journal of Ethnology and Folkloristics have been discussing over time. Hope to continue with even more cool stuff.

17/08/2022

Antonina Koryakina systematically analyses the Sakha heroic epic. Apparently, it metaphorically reflects the international situation today, although aimed to focus on something somewhat archaic.

10/08/2022

Lidia Gripenberg discusses the Finnish Roma evangelical mission among the Estonian Roma.

03/08/2022

In the fresh issue of our journal, Nita Novianti examines recent institutional attempts to employ folklore as a vehicle of national identity in Indonesia.

27/07/2022

Anu Järs and Anu Kannike found something special in the Estonian national cuisine.

22/07/2022

Arsim Canolli takes on the Kosova food tradition as a brand new foundation of a nation.

12/07/2022

In the fresh issue of JEF, Ágnes Eitler discusses the Hungarian connection between tradition and locality.