Publications

Journals
SIEF has two peer-reviewed, scholarly journals:

Ethnologia Europaea. Journal of European Ethnology.This interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal, founded in 1967, focuses on European cultures and societies, past and present. In 2015 it was adopted by SIEF as its flagship journal. Since 2019, it is published online by the Open Library of Humanities, an open-access publisher with no author-facing article processing charges. Besides from SIEF membership, it also receives support from the Nordic Board for Periodicals in the Humanities and Social Sciences (NOP-HS). Ethnologia Europaea is A-ranked according to the European Science Foundation journal evaluation (ERIH+) and a level 2 (top level) journal according to the Norwegian model. It is indexed with Crossref, DOAJ and Scopus. The journal is published biannually, in a mixture of open issues, special issues, and issues with thematic and open sections. Each manuscript, whether in open or special issues, is evaluated by a double-blind peer review. Submissions are welcome.

 

Cultural Analysis, Volume 22.2 (2024): Special Issue “In relation to microbes”.
Special issue editors: Valdimar Tr. Hafstein, Áki G. Karlsson, and Veera Kinnunen.

This special issue explores various aspects of multispecies symbiotic practices where humans and microbes relate to each other. Whether making and digesting food, composting and caring for soils, or managing waste, some of these practices have been actively cultivated for millennia, others recently glimpsed through advances in microbiology, while others await discovery, but may prove vital for the future shape of life on Earth.

Scientific knowledge, popular interest and commercial investment in intimate relationships between humans and microbes has grown exponentially in the first decades of the 21st century. Known as the “microbial turn”, this explosion of interest has brought forward new questions and challenges to scientific research. The papers in this issue address the symbiotic living of humans and microbes and how their coexistence is shaped through everyday cultural practices. The studies shed light on the creative agency of microbes in vernacular food practices – from growing, baking, brewing, pickling and dairy making, through the digestive system and back to the soil through composting – and their implications for the physical, mental, and social wellbeing of humans.

The special issue brings together folklorists, ethnologists, sociologists, anthropologists, and nutrition scientists to examine such living cultures of living cultures through multispecies and multidisciplinary research. It provides new insights into the complex interactions of human and non-human agencies and their conjoined impact on the physical world, including human bodies, through research on joint cultural practices of humans and microbes. The study of these symbiotic practices offers an important vantage point on human health, foodways, sociality, and interaction with the environment, and may suggest viable pathways towards a more sustainable future.

 

SIEF Book Series
New series from Berghahn Books: SIEF Series in Ethnology and Folklore: New Directions in the Study of Everyday Life, Past and Present

Newsletter
SIEF Publishes the bi-annual SIEF Newsletter

Conference publications
Find here conference proceedings and related publications to past SIEF congresses.

Publications on the History of SIEF
In this voluntary online depot you will find SIEF-related publications by members. Please contact sief(at)meertens.knaw.nl with suggestions of articles to be published in this section.

Books
SIEF does not publish scholarly works itself. Usually the outcome of congresses and working group conferences are published by independent publishers. However such publications are allowed to bear a secondary ISBN number of SIEF, which makes them recognisable as a SIEF related publication. Such an ISBN number can be requested from the secretariat.