It is necessary for every discipline to take Stock of its own current state every 20-30 years.
Such review helps determine the discipline's path and tasks for the coming decades and it also
facilitates reflection upon the changes and challenges of the scientific and non-scientific
world around it. For this purpose the Ethnography Committee of the Hungarian Academy of
Sciences organized a Series of Conferences between 2018 and 2020 on the current situation and
future of ethnography the proceedings of which are included in this volume. The volume
addresses a wide range of readers - inside and outside the discipline - by providing the
institutions and researchers of this discipline with reference points for further
investigations and by providing members of the public with authentic information about current
and future research carried out with the purpose of exploring and preserving cultural heritage.
