”Studia Etnologiczne i Antropologiczne” has been published at the Cieszyn seat of the University of Silesia for more than 20 years – soon the reader will get the twenty first volume of the annual journal. Is it a lot? It seems that twenty years makes it possible to call this magazine quite young, but at the same time it should be noted that this period has brought many experiences. Over the past few decades, various changes have taken place at an unprecedented speed in all spheres of life of people inhabiting every corner of the world. A good journal can be called the one which keeps up with these processes - "Studia Etnologiczne i Anthropologiczne” should be, without any doubt, included in this group.

The issues discussed in it create, as the title suggests, a wide and colourful range of topics, from manifestations of folk culture, identities of small and smallest local communities to the socio-cultural effects of the globalisation processes. From the discussions of the world cultural heritage to the search for the essence of ethnic and national borderlands. From the discussions of the persistence of folk art to the search for answers to the question of how the human culture exists and what transformations it is undergoing.