Journal of Folklore. Contributions to cultural research
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| description | Journal of the German Society for Folklore |
| publishing company | Wax man |
| Frequency of publication | half-yearly |
| editor | Alexa Färber, Irene Götz , Gunther Hirschfelder , Thomas Schindler and Manfred Seifert |
| Web link | dgv.org |
| ISSN (print) | 0044-3700 |
| ISSN (online) | 2699-5522 |
The periodical Zeitschrift für Volkskunde. Contributions to cultural research is a folklore-scientific journal and appears twice a year. It is published by order of the German Society for Folklore and is edited by Alexa Färber, Irene Götz , Gunther Hirschfelder , Thomas Schindler and Manfred Seifert.
history
The Zeitschrift für Volkskunde, of which - including its predecessor of the same kind - 90 volumes are available, is the oldest folklore periodical in Central Europe that is still published today. It was founded in Berlin in 1891 as an organ of the local Folklore Society by the Germanist Karl Weinhold, as a new series in 20 years, published by Moritz Lazarus and Heymann Steinthal. With the 39th year in 1929, the journal of the Association for Folklore was taken over by the Association of German Associations for Folklore and (as a new series) continued under the title Journal for Folklore (ZsfVk) . In 1938 the association gave up the magazine again. Three years until the war-related cessation of its publication in 1941, it was looked after by a National Socialist editorial team and only continued with the 50th year in 1953, now again on behalf of the Association of Folk Studies. In 1963 the institutional publishing house changed to the successor organization of the Verband der Volkskundevereine, the German Society for Folklore. The Zeitschrift für Volkskunde has been published by the science publisher Waxmann since issue 1, 1998 (94th year) and has been listed here since issue 1, 2015 (111th year) with the expanded subtitle “Contributions to cultural research”.
Content
The Zeitschrift für Volkskunde publishes scientific articles from all areas of folklore / European ethnology / empirical cultural studies. The contributions deal with phenomena of everyday cultures in European societies: questions about socio-cultural transformation and differentiation are raised, aspects of transnationalization and migration are discussed, and historical micro-analyzes of regional living conditions and power structures are carried out. The focus of the historical orientation is on the present and the 19th century; the time spectrum goes back to the early modern period. Central and unifying is the perspective on the people involved, their practices, strategies and forms of knowledge. The articles generally appear in German with an English summary. Conference reports and a detailed review section round off each volume. An annual table of contents is attached to the 2nd half-year volume. The articles in the journal are editor-reviewed.
