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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.

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

08/05/2025

Kirsti Jamieson, Marta Discepoli and Ella Leith published an article about the Deaf Heritage to “challenge the balance of power between heritage professionals and members of the Deaf community”.
See DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jef-2021-0002

02/05/2025

Some years ago, our Editor-in-Chief discussed the value of a metaphor in ethnographic reasoning, see DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jef-2021-0001

27/04/2025

"Basket making as a living form of community-based culture in Defeng is practiced, sustained, and adapted by skilled basket makers in a fast-changing social, cultural, and economic landscape."
Lijun Zhang, Jason Jackson "Basketry Craft Practice in Southwest China: The Case of Defeng Village"
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jef-2024-0025

17/04/2025

Jon Kay discusses Indigenous handicraft in China, see: "“I Will Stitch it Back and Pass it Down”: A Bai Elder Makes and Teaches Buzha"
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jef-2024-0024

10/04/2025

“Discussion of basketry uses fits within the larger chain of human action.”

Jason Baird Jackson and Lijun Zhang "Basketry and Festival Among the D**g (Kam) People"
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jef-2024-0023

08/04/2025

“No longer seen as merely a marker of poverty and backwardness, ethnic minority clothing, in turn, became a symbol of artistic achievement and collective patrimony worthy of national protection.”

“Dressing the Part: Producing Ethnic Minority Textiles in the Era of Intangible Cultural Heritage Tourism” by Carrie Hertz
DOI: 10.2478/jef-2024-0022

19/03/2025

Yanyu Wang, Robert Tian & Alf H. Walle discuss cultural framework of tea-drinking in their article “Dramaturgical Tactics in a Chinese Tea Room: Tailoring Self-presentation for Business Success”.
DOI: 10.2478/jef-2024-0021

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