Mitteleuropean Ethnology in Transition

Crossing Boundaries, Exploring the Frontier

“…Moreover, during the second half of the twentieth century, as the process of 'European integration' gathered pace, this 'Europe' was very much one located to the west of the Iron Curtain. Following the collapse of communism, the 'return to Europe' of Central European countries with their long traditions of national ethnologies (Kiliánová 2012) raises issues of particular signifi cance for the future anthropological study of Europe, as does the redefi nition of 'east' and 'Europe' along the current eastern border of the EU (Straczuk 2012). Beyond the original six countries of the European Economic Community, the 'new Europeans' have often had a distanced attitude to 'Europe' -which still is the place where British people tend to see themselves going when they travel to France, or Danish people when they enter Germany.…”