The Romanian Ethnological Terminology in the Works of B. P. Hasdeu
The Romanian Ethnological Terminology in the Works of B. P. Hasdeu

Summary/Abstract: Hasdeu's polyvalent contribution to the bases of Romanian ethnology is decisive as he has set up the national ethnological tradition and the reference point for all the following ethnological contributions. A list of the ethnological terms used in Hasdeu's works reflects at the same time the pioneering ways of the founder of the Romanian ethnology (he doubles terms or uses terminological variants for the same object, sometimes he fails to clarify the meaning of some concepts that he introduces) and his exceptional erudition proved by the impressive number of data that he assimilates and analyses in order to build original theories. Hasdeu uses and imposes a series of specialized terms such as variant, type, prototype, archetype (with subdivisions like subtype, subvariant, subarchetype), trying to define and refine the object that was called popular literature or folklore in the second half of the 19th century.

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