Etnografie del contemporaneo is an annual scholarly journal published by Edizioni Museo Pasqualino. It grew out of the permanent seminar Etnografie del contemporaneo, founded and coordinated by Rosario Perricone at the Museo internazionale delle marionette “Antonio Pasqualino” in Palermo. Originally conceived as a venue for publishing papers presented at the seminar, the journal gradually broadened its editorial scope beyond the activities of the seminar itself, fostering exchange among scholars from different disciplinary backgrounds. Particular attention is devoted to the work of younger researchers, for whom the journal provides both a forum for scholarly discussion and an opportunity to disseminate their research beyond specialist audiences. The journal’s origins in the Seminar continue to shape its intellectual profile and its commitment to bringing different research approaches into dialogue around shared questions. Its openness to a plurality of perspectives is matched by rigorous standards in the selection and editorial preparation of contributions. Articles are assessed since the reliability and accuracy of their documentation, the coherence of their arguments, and their critical engagement with existing scholarship. Etnografie del contemporaneo thus aims to provide a forum in which interpretations can be critically discussed in relation to both the available sources and the findings of ongoing research. The journal’s engagement with the history of religions, geography, dialectology, semiotics, and cultural studies develops naturally from its anthropological orientation. Anthropological research, insofar as it investigates the practices and systems of meaning through which human beings organise social life, necessarily invites dialogue with other disciplines concerned with the same phenomena. Questions emerging from ethnographic inquiry often require closer attention to the historical development of beliefs and rituals, to the relationship between communities and territories, or to the processes through which cultural representations are produced and circulated. Dialogue with these fields therefore responds to questions that arise within anthropological research itself and contribute to its further development. The journal accordingly welcomes contributions grounded in different disciplinary traditions, if they address these shared concerns and offer conceptual or methodological tools through which they may be more precisely formulated, while remaining firmly attentive to the historical and social contexts of the phenomena under investigation. The journal is organised into four sections: Articoli publishes original research articles that contribute to debates in anthropology and to dialogue with related disciplines through fieldwork, source-based research, and critical reflection on the concepts and methods employed in the study of cultural phenomena. The section particularly welcomes work in which the analysis of such phenomena within their specific historical and social contexts contributes to the reconsideration of unresolved problems or the formulation of new research questions. Attention to the practices and experiences of social actors is accompanied by reflection on the processes through which anthropological knowledge is produced, on the conditions under which research is conducted, and on the forms in which its results are presented. Both case studies and broader historical or comparative investigations therefore contribute to testing interpretative categories against the materials examined and in relation to the existing scholarly literature. Contributions are subject to double-blind peer review. Note features critical discussions and in-depth examinations of works and/or research questions that are relevant to contemporary debates in the humanities. The selection of works is not determined by their date of publication, but by the significance of the questions they make it possible to address. The section therefore provides space both for the rediscovery of neglected studies and for the reassessment of influential contributions whose established reputation may at times have encouraged the persistence of interpretations that have received insufficient critical scrutiny. Reconsidering their arguments in the light of subsequent scholarship makes it possible to identify aspects that remain intellectually productive, while also discussing their limitations and returning still relevant questions to critical debate. Recensioni presents critical reviews of recent publications related to the journal’s areas of scholarly interest. Each review outlines the subject matter and central arguments of the work under consideration, discusses its methodological and theoretical approach, and assesses its contribution in relation to previous scholarship and current debates. The section is intended to provide readers with the elements necessary to evaluate the scholarly significance of the publications reviewed, while encouraging discussion of the new findings, approaches, and perspectives they bring to the field. Schede draws attention to recently published books and essays through short presentations outlining their contents and main features. The section serves primarily an informational and bibliographical function: it gives visibility to new publications and helps readers identify works most closely related to their own research interests, while referring them to the publications themselves for more detailed examination.