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Published: Cultural Analysis 22.1 (2024).
Call for ongoing submissions Cultural Analysis Forum Series on Pandemics & Politics.
Forthcoming: Ethnologia Europaea’s 54.1 (2024)
Announcement: changes in Ethnologia Europaea’s editorship and the journal has moved to Berghahn publishers

Cultural Analysis

Vol. 22(1) 2024 (berkeley.edu)

The new mixed issue contains:

Stephen Olbrys Gencarella: Folk Research: A Query and a Critique
Responses by: Simon J. Bronner and Anthony Bak Buccitelli

Sarita Ray Chaudhury: “Laugh like Surpanakha:” Modern Literary Re-Imagining of a Famous Villainess in Indian Folkloric Traditions
Response by: Sritama Maitra

Tiago Pires: Ethnopsychiatry of the Devil: Demonic Possession as a Cultural Language for Subjective Suffering in Contemporary Italy
Responses by: Joseph P. Laycock and Sean McCloud

Book reviews by Gregory Hansen, Mary L. Sellers.

Call for Papers

We are currently accepting research articles, reviews, scholarly responses (to previous articles), and shortform essays for our new section. The journal encourages submissions from a variety of theoretical standpoints from different disciplines, including, but not limited to, anthropology, cultural studies, folklore, media studies, popular culture, psychology, and sociology. Please visit our website for additional information about the journal and for submission guidelines: www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~culturalanalysis

Call for Ongoing Submissions

Forum Series 1: Pandemic & Politics
Each installment in the Cultural Analysis Forum Series remains open for subsequent submissions in the form of original Research Articles, Essays, Scholarly Responses (to published Series contributions), Author Addendums, and Reviews of literature and media relevant to the Forum Series topic(s). For further inquiries and submissions contact Cultural Analysis Editors at

About the Journal
Cultural Analysis is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed, open-access journal dedicated to investigating expressive and everyday culture. The journal features analytical research articles, reviews, and cross-disciplinary responses. Established in 2000 in the Berkeley Folklore Archives, Cultural Analysis has published 22 volumes and hosts a global editorial board and collective.

Ethnologia Europaea

Vol. 54(1) 2024

Dear SIEF colleagues,
we are pleased to announce the imminent publication of Ethnologia Europaea’s Volume 54, Issue 1. This features four independent articles on a range of fascinating topics. We kick off the issue with a piece by Valdimar Hafstein et al. on the Icelandic dairy production of skyr and its relationship to women and gender. Historically, this produce was quite diverse and the authors chronicle how technological innovations and market standardisation procedures have impoverished its microbial diversity over the past century.

Oliwia Murawska then examines the folklore of Poland’s Southern Kashubian region in terms of giving voice to an unorthodox agent – sand. Her visual article demonstrates how sand is more than just a matter of tuning, but is equally an attuned matter, whereby sand is situated in haptic experience and everyday knowledge.

We then turn to the Northern Caucasus Republic of Dagestan. Here Iwona Kaliszewska and Iwa Kołodziejska investigate some of the skepticism that surrounded COVID-19 vaccination. Their article reveals how the quasi-colonial status of this former Russian State contributed to a generalised hesitancy over getting vaccinated. This resulted in anxieties routed from both the colonial past and an insecure current situation.

The final article of this issue of EE is by Tobias Boos. It explores the notion of ‘playground’ in the context of the Italian celebration and competition Palio di Siena. The author uncovers an intertwining of intimacy and publicness which takes place in specific festive spaces. The articles also consider what contemporary role global contexts have in spatial community building processes.

Ethnologia Europaea | Berghahn Journals

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The publication of the newest issue of Ethnologia Europaea coincides with a series of changes to the journal’s editorship as well as its structure. Firstly, with this her last issue, Laura Stark steps down as co-editor and Patrick Laviolette takes over from her. Patrick has been the editor-in-chief of the two sister periodicals: AJEC, since 2019, and previous to that, he was involved with EASA’s SA/AS. He thus brings a great deal of experience to the position, joining Alexandra Schwell, who continues in her co-editorship post. Another change is that Agnieszka Pasieka, from EE’s Editorial Board, will now be in charge of the short ‘ethnographic snapshots’ contributions. So, a warm welcome to Aga and Patrick; many thanks to Laura for her excellent work; and thanks also to Alexandra for ensuring continuity.

We will also very much miss Magdalena Tellenbach, who has been EE’s Production Manager and Publication Editor and the longest-serving person working on EE in the recent past. She worked on the journal for over 15 years and was the one who ensured the excellent format and language, as well as the finished and elegant look of our printed and online issues. We deeply thank Magdalena and wish her all the best in the future. She will be much missed.

Another significant change is that EE has just moved to a new publisher at the start of 2024. Berghahn Journals will now be our home for the foreseeable future and we are already enjoying the professional atmosphere of this independent, progressive, and social science-friendly publishing house. With this switch from OHL, EE now becomes part of Berghahn’s Open Anthro model: https://openanthro.berghahnjournals.com/ and below.

We feel this change will usher in a bright new future for the journal because it will give it much more visibility as we will be part of a collection of high-ranking journals, including Social Anthropology/Anthropologie Sociale (SA/AS) and the Anthropological Journal of European Cultures (AJEC). Please, do recommend the OpenAnthro collection to your libraries; it is library subscriptions that make this “open model” possible.

With this move to Berghahn, EE has become a fully-fledged SIEF journal, also in terms of ownership, with full editorial freedom. Despite these changes, we will obviously continue to strive to publish high-quality research from the fields of ethnology, anthropology, and folklore studies, as well as from relevant cogent fields. So please do consider sending us your guest-edited SI proposals, full-length articles and more concise ethnographic snapshot contributions.

We wish all our readers a more peaceful and hopeful spring/summer than we’ve recently experienced during these disturbing times.

Laura Stark, Alexandra Schwell, Aga Pasieka & Patrick Laviolette

Berghahn is delighted to be the new publisher of Ethnologia Europaea in 2024! Volume 54 will be open access using the Subscribe-to-Open (S2O) model. The addition of the journal to the Berghahn Open Anthro collection reinforces the benefits of S2O, an ever-strengthening model that provides equitable open access through the ongoing support from the library community.

SIEF members have an important role to play in ensuring that the journal remains open access in the coming years. Please support Ethnologia Europaea and the S2O mission of equity and sustainability by encouraging your institution’s library to subscribe.

S2O benefits include:

View full details about the journal here: www.berghahnjournals.com/ethnologia-europaea
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