BA European ethnology

"European ethnology/folk studies (EEVK) is a cultural science that deals with ways of life and living environments in Europe. It emerged from folklore. The EEVK examines many different phenomena of everyday culture from a contemporary and historical perspective. Both perspectives serve to analyze and interpret cultural orders and dynamics of modern societies. ""Culture"" is one of the main perspectives of the subject alongside ""everyday life"". Because culture is dynamic, the term does not denote ""unchanging"" traditions or values, nor does it mean the lifestyle of the socially privileged. Rather, the term culture describes the dynamic, constantly changing forms of expression in which reality is lived. Culture describes the permanent process in which society is negotiated on a daily basis. Culture is primarily about how actors perceive their living environment, how they communicate and how they act. This broad understanding of culture ""allows the everyday world to appear as the concrete place and time in which culture is ""lived"" and observed at the same time"".1 . The focus of the subject is on the concrete everyday life of people, also in connection with other living beings (animals, plants or microbes) and the environment in which they live."