About the journal
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 review has been part of the editorial department of the Maison Archéologie & Ethnologie – René Ginouvès at the Université Paris Nanterre since 2008, becoming one of the most important French-language journals of general anthropology. Edited and managed by Martine Segalen from 2006 to 2017 and since 2017 by Nicolas Adell, 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.
Ethnologie Française publishes four issues per year. The paper version is published and distributed by the Presses Universitaires de France. Issues published since 2001 are accessible online via the CAIRN portal, with a 36-month moving wall, and older issues can be consulted on the JSTOR platform.
Editor in chief
Michèle Baussant
Executive committee
Michèle Baussant, Maria Couroucli, Stefan Le Courant, Nathalie Luca
Editorial assistant
Fabienne Venou
Head of publication
Presses Universitaires de France
Scientific board
Niko Besnier (Université d'Amsterdam, Pays-Bas)
Christian Bromberger (Aix-Marseille université/CNRS-IDEMEC, France)
André Burgière (EHESS)
Alain Corbin (université Paris I, France)
† Jack Goody (St John’s College-Cambridge, Grande-Bretagne)
Michael Herzfeld (Harvard University, Etats-Unis)
Reinhard Johler(université de Tübingen, Allemagne)
Carmelo Lisón-Tolosana (Real Academia de Ciencias Morales y Politicas, Espagne)
Jean-Pierre Peter (EHESS, France)
Xavier Roigé (université de Barcelone, Espagne)
Martine Ségalen (université Paris Nanterre)
Mila Santova (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgarie)
Pier Gorgio Solinas (université de Sienne, Italie)
Editorial board
Tiphaine Barthelemy de Saizieu (Université de Picardie Jules Verne)
Michèle Baussant (CNRS-ISP)
Baptiste Buob (CNRS-LESC)
André Burguière (EHESS)
Sophie Chevalier (Université de Franche-Comté)
Philippe Combessie (Université Paris Ouest Nanterre la Défense)
Sylvaine Conord (Université Paris Ouest Nanterre la Défense)
Maria Couroucli (CNRS-IIAC)
Véronique Dassié (CNRS-Héritages)
Nicoletta Diasio (Université de Strasbourg)
Jean-Yves Durand (Universidade do Minho, Portugal)
Laurent-Sébastien Fournier (Université de Nice-Sophia Antipolis)
Marie-Luce Gélard (Université Paris Descartes)
Monica Heintz (Université Paris Nanterre)
Agnès Jeanjean (Université de Nice-Sophia Antipolis)
Stefan Le Courant (CNRS-CEMS)
Laurent Le Gall (Université de Bretagne occidentale, Brest)
Nathalie Luca (CNRS-CéSor)
Anne Monjaret (CNRS-IIAC-LAHIC)
Madeleine Pastinelli (Université Laval)
Jean-Marie Privat (Université de Lorraine)
Gilles Raveneau (Université Paris Ouest Nanterre la Défense)
Mélanie Roustan (MNHN)
Sylvie Sagnes (CNRS-Héritages)
Martin de la Soudière (CNRS–Centre Edgar Morin)
Thierry Wendling (CNRS-Héritages)