The Folklore Studies Association of Canada has published the journal Canadian Folklore Canadien since 1979. This bilingual journal is intended to disseminate knowledge about activities concerning folklore and ethnology, in Canada and elsewhere, through the publication of articles, book reviews, notes, and other information pertaining to research and academic inquiry in all branches of folklore.

Canadian Folklore Becomes Ethnologies.

At the 1998 annual general meeting, the membership of the Folklore Studies Association of Canada (FSAC) voted to change the name of its journal from Canadian Folklore canadien to Ethnologies. The membership felt strongly that the new name reflected the journal’s concern for materials beyond the most traditional scope of “folklore” and our interest in a broader range of cultural artifacts and expressive forms. The membership’s commitment to recognising the very negative implications of the term “folklore” among Francophone colleagues, because of its exclusively Anglo origin and overdetermined associations with the archaic and colonial. The new name, Ethnologies, is a more accurate indication of the journal’s contents and perspectives.

The Journal gratefully acknowledges grants from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) (Learned Journals Programs), the Fonds de recherche du Québec – Société et culture (FQRSC), as well as the collaboration of the Centre interuniversitaire d’études sur les lettres, les arts et les traditions (CELAT), Laval University.

Editor-in-Chief

Laurier Turgeon, Université Laval

Scientific committee

Yves Bergeron, Université du Québec à Montréal

John Bodner, Memorial University of Newfoundland

Ian Brodie, Cape Breton University

Christian Bromberger, Université Aix-Marseille 

Octave Debary, Université Paris Cité

Pauline Greenhill, University of Winnipeg

Michael Herzfeld, Harvard University 

Cyril Isnart, Université Aix-Marseille

Nathalie Kononenko, University of Alberta

Ronald Labelle, Cape Breton University

Mariya Lesiv, Memorial University of Newfoundland

Brad Loewen, Université de Montréal

Richard McKinnon, Cape Breton University

Daniela Moisa, Université du Québec à Rimouski

Thomas Mouzard, Ministère de la Culture, France

Željka Petrović Osmak, Université de Zagreb

Gerald Pocius, Cape Breton University

Dominique Poulot, Université Paris I Sorbonne

Laura Sanchini, Musée canadien d’histoire

Robert St. George, University of Pennsylvania 

Thierry Wendling, CNRS