Founded in 1971 by Jean Cuisenier within the Centre d’Ethnologie Française, Ethnologie française made an early effort to break with the approach of the folklorists who dominated the analysis of social and cultural facts observed in France as well as in Europe at that time.

The journal focuses primarily – although not exclusively – on European societies through the lens of ethnographic studies but also of other perspectives including history, sociology, political science, geography, and literary studies

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