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Multidisciplinary open access journal, free to readers and authors, JEF is welcoming academic contributions from researchers all over the world.

We publish articles on ethnology, folkloristics, museology, cultural studies, and sociocultural anthropology.

10/01/2025

Art Leete wrote an editorial for the recent issue of our journal: “The Great Robbery: How Skeletons and Gods Ended Up in Museum Collections”. It's about the dark pages of our profession's history.
DOI: 10.2478/jef-2024-0016

21/12/2024

The fresh issue of JEF is out! That's the summary of everything:

https://sciendo.com/issue/JEF/18/2

12/12/2024

Pertti Anttonen discusses the opportunistic treatment of the concept of 'Tradition Science' in the Nordic scholarly community.

DOI: 10.2478/jef-2024-0012

09/12/2024

Azher Hameed Qamar and Saima Azher tell us something about the secrets of Pakistan in their article "Birth Care Belief Practices: Traditional Mother–Child Care during Birth in Rural Punjab, Pakistan"
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jef-2024-0011

07/12/2024

Michael Anranter explores human connection in his article "Tripe Soup at the Service Area: Thoughts on an Infrastructure of Meaningful Sociality"
DOI: 10.2478/jef-2024-0010

01/12/2024

Ranus Sadikov and Eva Toulouze published a paper “Eastern Udmurt Sacred Places, Yesterday and Today”, see
DOI: 10.2478/jef-2024-0009

26/11/2024

Madis Arukask and Eva Saar wrote about Indigenous animistic experience in their co-authored article “A Near-Death Experience Narrated by a Vepsian Woman”, DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jef-2024-0008

19/11/2024

We published Sergei Minvaleev's article “Christian Elements and Their Folk Adaptations in the Funeral and Memorial Rites of the Ludian Karelians” in our special issue dedicated to the Finno-Ugric worldviews.
DOI: 10.2478/jef-2024-0007

31/10/2024

Nikolai Anisimov published a very insightful paper in our last special issue: “Occasional Commemorative Rituals in Udmurt Culture”, see
https://doi.org/10.2478/jef-2024-0006

24/10/2024

"The confessional map that had developed by the beginning of the 20th century entered a period of stasis, and for many years there were no significant changes in the Eastern Udmurt confessional life."
Aleksandr V. Chernykh “The Contemporary Ethno-Confessional Situation Among the Udmurts of Perm Territory”, DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jef-2024-0005

27/09/2024

Eva Toulouze has published an article “Udmurt Religious Practice Today: Between Native Traditions and World Religions". She claims that among the Udmurts, religions have not been idle recently: https://doi.org/10.2478/jef-2024-0004

28/08/2024

Elena Danilko discusses the spiritual practice of the Old Belief among the Indigenous Finno-Ugric communities of Volga River and Ural Mountains region in her paper “‘Raskolniks’ and ‘Inorodtsy’: A Mutual Attraction”, see DOI: 10.2478/jef-2024-0003

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

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