arises from renewed interest in those studies generically defined as "European
ethnology", and thus from the need for a new tool for investigation and confrontation, available to anyone in the world
concerned with Europe from ethnological or anthropological viewpoint, regardless of his theoretical orientation, his
subject or his research methods.
's purpose is to attempt to publish not only contributions regarding theoretical
and methodological issues, but particularly works on inter-European comparison and analysis (or those stimulating comparison and
analysis) as well as brief monographs on European peoples or regions.
also intends to act as an intermediary in information and discussion, proposals
and comments, even those beyond the already vague thematic and geopolitical limits implicit in the terms "ethnology", "anthropology",
"folklore" and also "European".
is not presented with a pre-established line or format. It intends to invent itself
as it goes along, using a style suggested by the contributions it will succeed in solliciting, either directly or indirectly, from
whoever is working on old or new themes regarding Europeans and their ways of life.
