The European Ethnology as a discipline studies the cultures of everyday life. This means that the European Ethnology researches the everyday life in the past and in the present. Meat consumption, soccer, or interior design – the European Ethnology addresses very different topics. The researchers and students of the Department of European Ethnology published their articles and books not only in highly ranked, peer-reviewed journals and in the book series "Ethnographie des Alltags" (publisher: Böhlau Verlag), but also in the series "Veröffentlichungen des Instituts für Europäische Ethnologie" and the "Mitteilungen des Instituts für Europäische Ethnologie", two series that does the department itself publish.