Journal of Ethnology and Folkloristics

04/02/2025

Felipe González Ortiz discusses the existential issues of indigenous peoples in the article “Life and Death in the Mazahua Worldview in the Context of Covid-19”
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jef-2024-0018

31/01/2025

Uus number ka trükitud. Vähemalt mõnele näib intellektuaalselt ahvatlev.
The new issue is also printed. At least to some, it seems intellectually appealing.

28/01/2025

Diarmuid Ó Giolláin discusses the coming of ethnology and folkloristics to the scene of sciences:
“Folklore, Ethnology, Philology: National Sciences and Global Connections”
DOI:

Folklore and ethnology were from their beginnings closely associated with language. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz used languages to identify and...

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.