Methods are an essential and inevitable part of all research processes, intertwined with collecting, producing and analysing research materials. The chosen methodologies define the structure and outcomes of the project. Instead of holding on to familiar and commonly used methods, researchers must – or at least should – take the time to consider their methodological choices and evaluate different approaches to or variations of a particular method that would help them achieve better results. New theoretical discussions and technological advances are constantly providing ethnologists with more options, and even classic fields of study like ethnography have spurred new research approaches, such as autoethnography, digital ethnography, visual ethnography and sensory ethnography.

This issue of Ethnologia Fennica is the second part of a double issue that focuses on methodological work and the variations and usage of different methods in contemporary ethnology and other related disciplines. The current 2/25 issue provides four different viewpoints on methods in three research articles and one review article. The issue also provides four reviews of doctoral theses, two book reviews, three conference reports and two obituaries.

You can read the issue here: https://journal.fi/ethnolfenn