Publications

Recent publications in the field of ethnology

Alexandra Schwell, Laura Stark (eds.) (2023), Ethnologia Europaea, Vol. 53.1.
Open Library of Humanities.
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Susannah Eckersley, Claske Vos (eds.) (2023), Diversity of belonging in Europe. Public spaces, contested places, cultural encounters. London [etc.]: Routledge, Critical Heritages of Europe Series.

Rachel Irwin, Kristofer Hansson (guest eds.) (2022), Ethnologia Europaea, Vol. 52.2.
Open Library of Humanities.
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Cultural Analysis Forum Series 1: Pandemics & Politics (2023).
Berkeley: University of California.
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Cover book ‘From Lived Experience to the Written Word’

Pamela H. Smith (2022), From Lived Experience to the Written Word.
Reconstructing Practical Knowledge in the Early Modern World.
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.

Clare Birchall, Peter Knight (2022), Conspiracy Theories in the Time of COVID-19.
London [etc.]: Routledge, Conspiracy Theories Series.

Ceri Houlbrook (2022), ‘Ritual Litter’ Redressed. Cambridge, UK [etc.]: Cambridge University Press, Elements in Magic Series.

Menno Hurenkamp, Jan Willem Duyvendak (2022), De macht der gewoonte. Populisme in de polder. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.

Ernst van den Hemel, Oscar Samelink, Irene Stengs (eds.) (2022), Managing Sacralities. Competing and Converging Claims of Religious Heritage.
New York [etc.]: Berghahn Books, Explorations in Heritage Studies, vol. 6.

Cover book ‘Managing Sacralities. Competing and Converging Claims of Religious Heritage’

Alexandra Schwell, Laura Stark (eds.) (2022), Ethnologia Europaea, Vol. 52.1.
Open Library of Humanities.
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Tuulikki Kurki, Tiiu Jaago, Saija Kaskinen, Kirsi Laurén, Tarja Tanttu (guest eds.) (2022), Approaching Trauma through Laughter, Betrayal, and Othering, in: Cultural Analysis, Vol. 20.2.
Berkeley: University of California.
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Lucy Mayblin and Joe Turner (2021), Migration studies and colonialism. 
Cambridge UK [etc.]: Polity Pres.

Tim Stanley (2021), Whatever Happened to Tradition? History, Belonging and the Future of the West. London [etc.]: Bloomsbury.

Tobias Köllner, Alessandro Testa (eds.) (2021), Politics of Religion. Authority, Creativity, Conflicts.
Zürich: LIT Verlag, Ethnology of Religion series, vol. 3.

Jan De Maeyer, Peter Jan Margry (eds.) (2021), Material Change. The Impact of Reform and Modernity on Material Religion in North-West Europe, 1780-1920.
Leuven: Leuven University Press, KADOC Artes 19.

Daniel R. Horst (2021), Kikkers en kaaskoppen. Nederland en Nederlanders in buitenlandse spotprenten.
Amsterdam: Rijksmuseum/Boom Uitgevers.

Cover book ‘What’s Missing. Collecting and Exhibiting Europe’

Markus Balkenhol (2021), Tracing slavery. The politics of Atlantic memory in the Netherlands.
New York – Oxford: Berghahn Books, EASA series, vol. 43.

Iris Edenheiser, Elisabeth Tietmeyer, Susanne Boersma (eds.) (2021), What’s missing? Collecting and exhibiting Europe. Berlin: Reimer Verlag GmbH. Publication series of the Museum Europäischer Kulturen, Vol. 24.

Jaron Harambam, Marije Kuiper, Roel Vaessen (2021), The truth is Out There.
Amsterdam [etc.]: Volt.

Leerlingen van het Thomas a Kempis College en Thomas Hontelez (2021), De stille school. Brieven van leerlingen in coronatijd. Utrecht: Kokboekencentrum.

Warna Oosterbaan (2021), Het leven van dingen. Wat wij met dingen doen, en zij met ons.
Amsterdam [etc.]: Atlas Contact.

Peter Jan Margry (2021), Vurige liefde. Het geheim rond het bloedig bruidje van Welberg.
Amsterdam: Prometheus.

Journal Ethnologia Europaea, vol. 51:1, 2021. Special Issue

Tom O’Dell and Lizette Gradén (guest eds.) (2021), Special Issue: Culture and Heritage under Construction, in: Ethnologia Europaea, Vol. 51:1. Open Library of Humanities.
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Sophie Elpers, Karen Miller (eds.) (2021), Tracking Knowledge: On the History of Changing Disciplinary Identities After 1945, in: Cultural Analysis, Vol. 19.2. Berkeley: University of California.
Guest editors: Konrad J. Kuhn and Magdalena Puchberger.
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Thomas M. Wilson (guest ed.) (2021), Special Issue: Brexit Matters, in: Ethnologia Europaea, Vol. 50:2.
Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press.
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Sophie Elpers, Karen Miller (eds.) (2021), Ethnographies of Silence, in: Cultural Analysis, Vol. 19.1.
Berkeley: University of California.
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Cover book ‘Cold War Mary. Ideologies, Politics, and Marian Devotional Culture’

Peter Jan Margry (ed.) (2021), Cold War Mary. Ideologies, Politics, and Marian Devotional Culture.
Leuven: Leuven University Press.

Albrecht Burkardt, Jérôme Grévy (dir.) (2020), Reliques politiques. Rennes: Presses universitaires de Rennes. Collection: Histoire.

Olivier Rieter (2020), Leven in herinnering. Katholieke herinneringscultuur in Noord-Brabant. Tilburg [etc.]: Stichting Zuidelijk Historisch Contact, Pictures Publishers. Series: Bijdragen tot de geschiedenis van het Zuiden van Nederland 3.

Markus Balkenhol, Ernst van den Hemel, Irene Stengs (eds.) (2020), The secular sacred. Emotions of belonging and the perils of nation and religion. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. Palgrave Politics of Identity and Citizenship Series.

Sophie Elpers, Karen Miller (eds.) (2020), Cultural Analysis, Vol.18.1.
Berkeley: University of California.
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Alessandro Testa and Cyril Isnart (guest eds.) (2020), Re-enchantment, Ritualization, Heritage-making: Processes Reconfiguring Tradition in Europe, in: Ethnologia Europaea, Vol. 50:1. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press.
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Cover book ‘Heritage and Festivals in Europe: Performing Identities’

Marie Sandberg and Monique Scheer (eds.) (2020), Special issue: Shared Spaces. Multispecies Approaches in the Museum, in: Ethnologia EuropaeaVol. 49:2. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press.
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Janet Chrzan  and John Brett (eds.) (2019), Food Culture. Anthropology, Linguistics and Food Studies. New York – Oxford: Berghahn Books. Series: Research methods for anthropological studies of food and nutrition, Vol. 2.

Paul Post and Martin Hoondert (eds.) (2019), Absent Ritual. Exploring the Ambivalence and Dynamics of Ritual. Durham NC: Carolina Academic Press.

Sophie Elpers, Karen Miller (eds.) (2019), Cultural Analysis, Vol.17.2. Berkeley: University of California.
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Simon J. Bronner (ed.) (2019), The Oxford Handbook of American Folklore and Folklife Studies. New York: Oxford University Press.

Ullrich Kockel et al (eds.) (2019), Heritage and Festivals in Europe: Performing Identities. London [etc.]: Routledge.

Jonathan Miles-Watson and Vivian Asimos (eds.) (2019), The Bloomsbury Reader in the Study of Myth. London [etc.]: Bloomsbury Academic.

Simon J. Bronner (2019), The practice of folklore: essays toward a theory of tradition. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi.

Cover book ‘Vier eeuwen dagelijks leven: van keurslijf tot caravan’

Pepijn Reeser (2019), Vier eeuwen dagelijks leven in Nederland: van keurslijf tot caravan.
Zwolle: WBOOKS.

Sophie Elpers, Karen Miller (eds.) (2019), Cultural Analysis, Vol.17.1. Berkeley: University of California.
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Gilles Allaire and Benoit Daviron (eds.) (2019), Ecology, Capitalism and the New Agricultural Economy. The Second Great Transformation. London [etc.]: Routledge.

Bethaney Turner (2019), Taste, Waste and the New Materiality of Food. London [etc.]: Routledge.

Cover book ‘Regionalism and modern Europe. Identity construction and movements from 1890 to the present day’

Xosé M. Núñez Seixas and Eric Storm (eds.) (2019), Regionalism and modern Europe. Identity construction and movements from 1890 to the present day. London [etc.]: Bloomsbury Academic.

Daniel Fabre, Christine Laurière, Annick Arnaud (dirs)(2018), Arnold Van Gennep. Du folklore à l’ethnographie. Paris: Éditions du Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques. Le Regard de l’ethnologue: 30.

Carole Counihan and Susanne Højlund (eds.) (2018), Making taste public. Ethnographies of Food and the Senses. London [etc.]: Bloomsbury Academic.

Elaine Leong (2018), Recipes and Everyday Knowledge. Medicine, Science and the Household in Early Modern England. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Sophie Elpers et al (2018), Immaterieel erfgoed als proeftuin van een mondialiserende samenleving. Kennisagenda 2017-2020Arnhem: Kenniscentrum Immaterieel Erfgoed Nederland.

Sophie Elpers (2018), Wederopbouwboerderijen.
Agrarisch erfgoed in de strijd over traditie en modernisering, 1940-1955.
Rotterdam: nai010 publishers.

Jutta Lauth Bacas and Marion Näser-Lather (eds.) (2018), Ethnologia Europaea, Vol. 48:1. Special Issue: Practices of Resistance. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press.
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Valdimar Tr. Hafstein (2018), Making intangible heritage. El Condor Pasa and other stories from UNESCO. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

Irene Stengs (2018), Gepopulariseerde cultuur, ritueel en het maken van erfgoed. Amsterdam: Vrije Universiteit. Inaugural lecture.

Birgit Meyer & Mattijs van de Port (eds.) (2018), Sense and Essence. Heritage and the Cultural Production of the Real. New York – Oxford: Berghahn Books.

Christiane Kruse, Birgit Meyer, Anne-Marie Korte (eds.) (2018), Taking Offense. Religion, Art, and Visual Culture in Plural Configurations. Paderborn: Wilhelm Fink.

Cover book ‘Idyllische Ländlichkeit. Eine Kulturgeographie der Landlust’

Christoph Baumann (2018), Idyllische Ländlichkeit. Eine Kulturgeographie der Landlust. Rurale Topografien 6Bielefeld: transcript Verlag.

Sarah Baker, Catherine Strong, Lauren Istvandity, Zelmarie Cantillon (eds.) (2018), The Routledge Companion to Popular Music History and Heritage. Routledge.

Berit Janssen (2018), Retained or Lost in Transmission. Analyzing and Predicting Stability in Dutch Folk Songs. Amsterdam: Institute for Logic, Language and Computation. ILLC Dissertation Series; DS-2018-01.

Elisabeth Gerhalter (2017), Tagebücher als Quellen: diaristische Aufzeichnungen als Forschungs- und Sammlungsgegenstände in den Sozialwissenschaften bis in die 1930er-Jahre und in die Geschichtswissenschaften ab den 1980-er Jahren. Dissertation Universität Wien.

Barbara Sieferle (2017), Zu Fuß nach Mariazell: Ethnographie über die Körperlichkeit des Pilgerns. Innsbrucker Schriften zur Europäischen Ethnologie und Kulturanalyse.
Münster [etc.]: Waxmann.

Robert Glenn Howard and Coppélie Cocq (guest eds.) (2017), The Inheritance of the Digital. Ethnographic Approaches to Everyday Realities In, Of, and Through Digital Technologies, in: Cultural Analysis, Vol. 16.1. Special Issue.
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Cover book ‘Public Performances’

Jack Santino (ed.) (2017), Public Performances: studies in the carnivalesque and ritualesque. Logan: Utah State University Press.

Marie Sandberg and Monique Scheer (eds.) (2017), Ethnologia Europaea, Vol. 47:2. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press.
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Marjetka Golež Kaučič (ed.) (2017), What to Do with Folklore? New Perspectives on Folklore Research.
BASIS: Ballads and Songs – International Studies, Band 9.
Trier: WVT Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier.

Heidrun Alzheimer, Sabine Doering-Manteuffel, Daniel Drascek, Angela Treiber (eds.) (2017), Jahrbuch für Europäische Ethnologie – Die Niederlande. Dritte Folge 12.

Laurent Sébastien Fournier (ed.) (2017), L’inventaire des fêtes en Europe. Collection Ethnologie de L’Europe. Paris: L’Harmattan.

Laurent Sébastien Fournier and Fiorella Giacalone (eds) (2017), L’Europe pèlerine. Religion et tourisme. Collection Ethnologie de L’Europe. Paris: L’Harmattan.

Cover journal Ethnologia Europaea 47:1, 2017

Marie Sandberg and Monique Scheer (eds.) (2017), Special issue: 50 Years of Ethnologia Europaea – Readers’ Choice from Half a Century, in: Ethnologia Europaea, Vol. 47:1.
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Peter Jan Margry and Daniel Wojcik (2017), A saxophone divine, in: Victoria Hegner and Peter Jan Margry (eds), Spiritualizing the City. Agency and Resilience of the Urban and Urbanesque Habitat. Routledge. Text article (PDF).

Sophie Elpers & Jorien Posthouwer (2017), Tussen taboe en tolerantie – 30 jaar aidsherdenkingscultuur in Nederland, in: Volkskunde. Tijdschrift over de cultuur van het dagelijkse leven, Vol. 118 (1), pp. 1-19. Text article (PDF, in Dutch).


Journals

Cultural Analysis: An Interdisciplinary Forum on Folklore and Popular Culture

Ethnologia Europaea

Etnofoor

Journal of American Folklore

Journal of Material Culture

Zeitschrift für Volkskunde

Anthropological Journal of European Cultures

Folk Life: Journal of Ethnological Studies

Cover journal 'Volkskunde' - Vol. 116, 2015

Cover journal ‘Volkskunde’ – Vol. 116, 2015

Journal of Folklore Research


Journals in the Dutch language 

FARO: tijdschrift over cultureel erfgoed

Jaarboek Nederlands Openluchtmuseum 1995-2001

Volkskunde 1 (1888) – …

Volkskundig Bulletin 1 (1975) – 26 (2000)


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