Cum am devenit etnolog? (Despre) trei contexte
How did I become an Ethnologist? (On) Three Contexts

Summary/Abstract: The author presents the field research – organized as a folklore camp – in which she participated in the summer of 1982. The long discussions carried out with the peasants from the villages Mălini and Băişeşti (Suceava county) during this folklore camp determined her to really „change her life”. Consequently, she has decided to become an ethnologist, even before she had a very exact perspective on this science. The author's memoirs are presented in relation with three broad contexts: (a) within the wider framework of the organization and functioning of higher education in Romania during the last decade of communism, with a special focus on social sciences and humanities; (b) as part of the recent history of the humanities in Romania, implying here the complicated relations between official studies of folklore, ethnology and cultural anthropology; (c) Bukovina region and its traditions at the end of the twentieth century and, of course, at the end of the millennium.

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