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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.

22/10/2025

Apparently, the Latvians and Estonians like similar simple songs that need to be studied more attentively. See:

Martin Boiko “Techniques of Melody Formation and Improvisation in Latvian Recitatives”

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jef-2025-0007

02/10/2025

Žanna Pärtlas discusses Seto laments as songs in her article “From Lament to Lamenting Song: Musical Models, Meanings and Expression in Seto Solo and Choral Funeral Laments”

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jef-2025-0006

06/09/2025

Delia Dattilo delved into the world of women's singing in her article "Multipart Music as Self-Determination: Perspectives and Discourses in an Arbëresh Community of Singing Women"

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jef-2025-0005

15/08/2025

Olha Petrovych discusses teh genesis of the most popular contemporary Ukrainian song in her recent article ““Oh, the Red Viburnum in the Meadow”: Reflecting the Ukrainian National Mood”
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jef-2025-0004

04/08/2025

In our last special issue, Marjeta Pisk wrote that music is existential in her paper "Singing out Strange Days", see:

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jef-2025-0003

27/07/2025

“Editorial to the special issue: From Desperation to Hope: The Meanings and Effect of Group Singing” by Liina Saarlo, Janika Oras, and Taive Särg. Our dear colleague Professor Kristin Kuutma passed away recently, but the special issue, initiated by her, is out, and the authors of the Editorial echo her thoughts, see:
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jef-2025-0001

17/07/2025

Regina Bendix discusses what we inherit from the wars in her article “Inheritances Past and Future: Addressing the Everyday Legacy of War in Times of Militarisation”. See more about this:
https://doi.org/10.2478/jef-2025-0002

03/07/2025

The new special issue "From Desperation to Hope: The Meanings and Effect of Group Singing" of JEF is out! And this is the summary.
https://sciendo.com/issue/JEF/19/1

09/06/2025

Baburam Saikia discusses philosophical tensions between different Buddhist schools in his paper “Marginalisation, Revolt and Adaptation: On Changing the Mayamara Tradition”. See:
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jef-2021-0006

30/05/2025

A few years ago, Kikee Doma Bhutia discussed folk perception uncertain troubles in her paper “Death by Poisoning: Cautionary Narratives and Inter-Ethnic Accusations in Contemporary Sikkim.”
See:
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jef-2021-0005

23/05/2025

Imomotimi Armstrong discusses suppressed women's singing practice in the article “Of Barrenness and Witchcraft: The Songs of the Legi Women’s Association”

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jef-2021-0004

15/05/2025

Alina Oprelianska discusses the Ukrainian ways of countering souls of the dead i n her article "The Sealed Grave and Burial Rituals in the Context of Revenants in Ukrainian Belief"

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jef-2021-0003

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