Etnografia Nowa
ISSN 2080-8747
Publisher: The State Ethnographic Museum in Warsaw
Frequency: annual
Original version: print
Editor-in-Chief: Dr Magdalena Wróblewska
Contact
redakcja@ethnomuseum.pl
etnografia.nowa@ethnomuseum.pl
“Etnografia Nowa” is a multidisciplinary, Polish-language journal devoted to issues in ethnology and cultural anthropology, folklore studies, museology, and the history of these disciplines.
“Etnografia Nowa” welcomes submissions from authors representing various academic centres and cultural institutions, primarily from Poland. However, the topics addressed extend beyond the framework of Polish scholarship and engage with issues discussed in global humanities research and concerning cultures worldwide. For this reason, the journal may also be of interest to scholars from outside Poland.
“Etnografia Nowa” constitutes the Museum’s voice within the broad field of issues explored by contemporary humanities and social sciences, in particular ethnology and cultural anthropology, folklore studies, museology, and the history of these disciplines. The journal serves as a platform for integrating cultural institutions and museum professionals into current academic debates, while at the same time anchoring theoretical discussions in the everyday practice of cultural institutions. Accordingly, the journal publishes both peer-reviewed scholarly articles and descriptive texts devoted to specific cultural projects.
Issue 13 of “Etnografia Nowa” is devoted to Cezaria Baudouin de Courtenay-Ehrenkreutz-Jędrzejewiczowa, a figure of great importance for Polish ethnology and cultural anthropology for many reasons. She influenced the development of key research areas within the discipline, both in substantive and organisational terms. She headed the Department of Ethnology at Stefan Batory University in Vilnius and later assumed the newly established Chair of Polish Ethnography at the University of Warsaw. After leaving Poland, during and after the Second World War, she played a crucial role in organising the scholarly life of the Polish academic diaspora. Her work was also significant for the development of Polish ethnographic museology.
She was highly regarded as an organiser and lecturer, a person of exceptional talent and distinctive character, qualities that enabled particularly fruitful work in direct contact with students. However, she published relatively little, and her influence on the discipline appears not to have been sufficiently recognised. In order to address this gap, we invited distinguished authors to collaborate on this volume, undertaking analyses of Cezaria Baudouin de Courtenay-Ehrenkreutz-Jędrzejewiczowa’s achievements across various fields. We also give voice to the protagonist of this issue by reprinting selected texts authored by her.
