Ethnographic Museum

Tengger is a peripheral region in the Bromo mountains that has attracted the interest of scholars, especially in the context of customs and religion. They have long-held beliefs since the Majapahit empire. The ‘Tengger Religion’ became their guide and spread to lowland Java, Bali, and other areas. The arrival of Muslim missionaries to the Tengger region created the assimilation of new norms, which they called ngaluri and cara. This article explores the Walagara marriage process due to two legal products: Tengger custom and Islam. This study found several essential aspects: First, the Walagara grassroots placed Tengger and Islamic traditions in one shared liturgy based on the principles of ngaluri and cara. Second, this composition is not found in other areas, such as the lowlands (ngare), making the Walagara tradition an affirmation of the ‘Tengger People’ identity. We argue that these two aspects form the Tengger community with a ‘hybrid composite’.

This paper examines challenges and opportunities in safeguarding Romanian traditional dance within the framework of the UNESCO 2003 Convention.It distinguishes between traditional dance, folklorism, and dance of the ethnographical type, emphasising the ethnographic museum's potential role in revitalisation, education, and community engagement.By aligning conservation with safeguarding principles, museums can foster sustainable cultural transmission and recontextualisation of Romanian dance heritage.

Abstract This article presents a fine‐grained ethnographic case study of emotional abuse and child neglect within an intimate partner relationship in contemporary Australia, foregrounding the experience of a male primary caregiver whose distress remained institutionally illegible. Based on over 1500 pages of fieldnotes and presented with all names anonymised for ethical and protective reasons, the case offers an analytic entry point into the intersections of personhood, gendered care, narrative self‐fashioning, and the limits of institutional response. The analysis develops a conceptual synthesis examining how lives become recognisable or remain invisible, how harm accrues through slow and cumulative events, and how gendered assumptions structure the moral economy of suffering. It explores why help‐seeking by men in contexts of non‐physical abuse is often redirected, minimised, or pathologised. The article argues that normative scripts of motherhood, legal frameworks for adjudicating “the child's best interest,” and the epistemological preferences of quantitative research together obscure forms of harm that are relational, ambiguous, and emotionally corrosive. Rather than offering prescriptive solutions, the case calls for the development of more inclusive frameworks that do not simply invert gender norms but challenge the assumptions underpinning institutional recognition itself. It contributes to ongoing debates about caregiving, gender, and vulnerability by demonstrating how anthropological approaches—especially ethnographic and interpretive methods—can expose subtle but consequential asymmetries in how care and harm are recognised, narrated, and acted upon.

The aim of the article is to analyse the historical formation of the regions’ cultural heritage, mutual influences and peculiarities of actualising intercultural connections at the present stage in order to preserve the identity of the two neighboring Ukrainian and Polish peoples. Results. The issues of cooperation between two well-known in the ethno-space regions of Ukraine and Poland are studied — the Hutsul region (the Kosiv region) and the village of Zalipie with the adjacent centres of the Tarnow County of the Lesser Poland Voivodeship. During 2014–2019, a number of common field expeditions to the centres were conducted, historical and factual materials were collected, scientific conferences and exhibitions of creative achievements and artifacts were organised and held. Special attention is paid to current cultural exchange relations regarding strategies and means of preserving ethnic traditions by both carriers and state institutions. Scientific novelty. The analysis and comparison of the development aspects of two cultures are carried out — Kosiv painted ceramics (Ukraine) and Zalipie painting (Poland); the perspectives of interconnections in the socio-cultural space are outlined (it will contribute to strengthening of friendly relations, respecting bearers of elements of the intangible cultural heritage in Poland and Ukraine, popularising of traditions, spreading of a dialogue and transfer of knowledge to future generations). Conclusions. The conducted research confirms the significance of the cultural dialogue between the Hutsul region and Zalipie as a factor in preserving the ethnic identity and intangible cultural heritage. The interaction of scientists, craftsmen and institutions creates a ground for deepening intercultural ties and ensures the sustainability of traditions in modern globalised world.

Analysing ethnographic data from observations and interviews with polar scientists, this article builds on feminist techno-science, queer ecologies, and indigenous Science and Technology Studies (STS) to offer urgent critiques and useable techniques for creating more resilient and less harmful knowledge infrastructures. This article proposes ‘coalition science’ as a framework for multiple invested parties to share locations and produce knowledge together, complementing decolonial and feminist endeavours. The commitments of coalitions that we detail here reimagine communication pathways between scientists and other stakeholders who imagine and interact with the ocean in different ways. As this article demonstrates, when ocean scientists do attend to community engagement and co-design, they tend to invest in innovation rather than maintenance (what we call techno-scientific imaginaries). Feminist and indigenous theories of co-location and co-design push back against this asymmetrical attention to the new and help us see the urgent need to develop lasting coalitions as infrastructures continuously need repair. Coalition draws attention to new imaginaries based on justice, communication, and relationships. This article shows four critical moments that can put a coalition-centred imaginary into immediate practice.

Rad donosi prikaz i praktično iskustvo pohađanja radionice „Etnografski eksperimenti“ u organizaciji Kinokluba Zagreb i sveučilišta University College London, 2022./2023., koja je, po završetku teorijskog dijela, rezultirala praktičnim vježbama – snimanjem kratkih etnografskih filmova, između ostalog i filma „Proba“ / “The Rehearsal“, čija je premijera održana u svibnju 2024. godine. Posljednjim se pokušalo pristupiti istraživanju kulture Gluhih maksimalno inkluzivno, odnosno u kokreaciji sa zajednicom, ne bez poteškoća, no s ciljem razvijanja dragocjenih veza i odnosa između kazivača i istraživača, kao jamstva za nastavak kontinuirane i aktivne suradnje u budućnosti.

This article provides a sociolinguistic assessment of Gansu Bonan, a Mongolic language in the Amdo sprachbund spoken by a small Muslim minority located in Jishishan County, Linxia Prefecture. The results show that, although vitality varies considerably between villages, the language overall is threatened by the encroachment of Northwest Mandarin. If current trends continue, the Bonan population is likely to eventually assimilate into the regionally dominant Hui minority, resulting in a loss of diversity among the Muslim communities of Amdo.

Abstract This article examines an incident of fire in a squatter settlement in Delhi to understand the interaction between the urban poor and the state. Following the incident, the Delhi government undertook different welfare measures for the affected residents. These included immediate relief in the form of temporary tents for the families, a proposal to build proper houses for them, and compensation checks as direct monetary support. The empirical materials presented in this article show how state interventions tend to suffer from deficiencies of knowledge, trust, and bureaucratic effectiveness. Thus, they do not commensurate with the apparent intentions behind them. Each of these welfare measures engendered an entanglement of the urban poor in the state that affects their relationship to the law, urban space, the local economy, and bureaucratic structures. Analyzing the unfolding of the everyday state on the ground, I suggest that a squatter settlement's dynamic and entangled relationships with the state make it a unique site for analysis of the state from an urban perspective. Critical interpretations of their interactions and the discourses they engender are key ethnographic resources for understanding the dynamics of inequality in contemporary cities.

Based on the analysis of the main trends in the development of the tourism market in the context of global digitalization, intensified in the field of tourism and hospitality, the article substantiates structural changes in the market of tourism services in Ukraine. The subject of the research is the prospects for sustainable development of ethnographic tourism as a means of preserving and post-war recovery of the ethnocultural heritage of Ukraine. The aim of the article is to develop a conception of sustainable development of ethnographic tourism for the post-war recovery of the ethnocultural heritage of Ukraine. The achievement of the declared aim necessitated the solution of the following tasks: to study the essence of the conception of ethnographic tourism as a form of presentation of ethnocultural heritage; to define the directions of ensuring the sustainable development of ethnographic tourism; to develop a conception of sustainable development of ethnographic tourism as a means of preserving and post-war recovery of the ethnocultural heritage of Ukraine. As a methodological basis, an integrated approach to the problems under study was adopted. In the process of research, general scientific techniques and methods of logical and comparative analysis, as well as methods of generalization and processing of information using the techniques of economic and statistical analysis were used. The article proposes the formation of the conception of ethnographic tourism in the regions of Ukraine on the basis of the use of the sharing model as a factor in increasing the sustainability of the economy. The use of the sharing model to unite and promote the services of entrepreneurs in the field of tourism and ethno-tourism resources will attract a large number of consumers of tourist services to the region, interest the youth audience, and reduce the cost of forming tour packages.