Ethnologia Europaea | Issue: Issue: 1(50) Re-enchantment, Ritualization, Heritage-making: Processes Reconfiguring Tradition in Europe (2020)

Volume 50 • Issue 1 • 2020 • Re-enchantment, Ritualization, Heritage-making: Processes Reconfiguring Tradition in Europe

Highlighting the important, but in research often neglected, experiential dimension of European traditions, this issue of Ethnologia Europaea contains a themed section edited by Cyril Isnart and Alessandro Testa, entitled Re-enchantment, Ritualization, Heritage-making: Processes Reconfiguring Tradition in Europe. It begins with an introduction by the guest editors outlining how these three concepts can open new vistas on research. They are exemplified in four research articles: Testa describes three ethnographic cases of ritualization from different parts of Europe, Isnart contemplates the dynamics of cultural heritage and religion in southern Europe, Eva Löfgren studies the reconstruction of churches in a secular society such as Sweden, and Pedro Antunes takes part in nocturnal rituals, singing for the souls in Portugal. The special section is concluded with a forum on the “hot topic” of tradition. In nine statements, prominent researchers from all over Europe reflect on how the perception and reframing of tradition specific to each of their intellectual cultures and professional networks are continuously challenged by their ethnographic experiences. In the open section of this issue are three research articles related to Poland: Paweł Lewicki looks at “Polishness and Eurostyle in EU Brussels”, showing with ethnographic detail how a dominant European self-fashioning is challenged from within the EU. Izabella Main and Elżbieta M. Goździak deploy the concept of social and cultural remittances to think more intensely about the value of transnational mobility for Polish women working in Norway, and in her article “Gender on Trial”, Agnieszka Kościańska analyzes the importance of feminist activism in Poland for shifts in the discourse on rape in the criminal justice system. In a thought-provoking fourth article, “Talking about your Generation”, Kyrre Kverndokk draws our attention to the work done by the rhetorical trope of “the children” in the discourse on climate change.

Themed section

Reconfiguring Tradition(s) in Europe: An Introduction to the Special Issue

Intertwining Processes of Reconfiguring Tradition: Three European Case Studies

The Enchantment of Local Religion: Tangling Cultural Heritage, Tradition and Religion in Southern Europe

Reconstruction as Enchantment Strategy: Swedish Churches Burnt, Rebuilt and Rethought

Voicing Souls: Embodying Uncertainty in a Portuguese Borderland Village

Ethnology’s Hot Notion? A Discussion Forum on How to Return to "Tradition" Today

Open section

Gender on Trial: Changes in Legal and Discursive Practices Concerning Sexual Violence in Poland from the 1970s to the Present

Polishness and Eurostyle in EU Brussels: Struggles over Europe in Bodily Performances among Polish EU Civil Servants

Talking about your Generation: “Our Children” as a Trope in Climate Change Discourse

Transnational Mobility and Socio-cultural Remittances: The Case of Polish Women in Norway and Poland

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