Abstract
This is an accepted article with a DOI pre-assigned that is not yet published.
At the request of the editor, Nils-Arvid Bringéus, former president of Société international d'ethnologie et de folklore (SIEF), provides a brief survey of the different commissions of SIEF: the Ballad Commission set up in Prague in 1966, the Picture Commission established in Lund, Sweden, in 1984, the Commission for the Ethnology of Religion, set up in Bergen, Norway, in 1990, and the Commission for the Ethnological Study of Food, established in Lund in 1970 and working in cooperation with SIEF in 1994.