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abstract: The idea for this issue was born in the summer of 2024, during a conference in Sanok, Poland, devoted to building dialogue between Polish and Ukrainian anthropologists 2 .The organisers invited Katarzyna Waszczyska and Stsiapan Zakharkevich to introduce the participants to the situation of ethnology in and of Belarus, in the form of a discussion panel.Anna Engelking, a co-editor of this special issue, was also present during this conference.This special issue can be seen as an extension of this 
journal: Ethnologia Polona