„Today they mock and laugh at those interested in folklore... ”. Inter- war lines about the drawbacks of a profession Cover Image
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„Azi îşi bat joc şi râd de acei ce se ocupă cu folklorul...”. Rânduri interbelice despre neajunsurile unei profesii
„Today they mock and laugh at those interested in folklore... ”. Inter- war lines about the drawbacks of a profession

Author(s): Cosmina TIMOCE-MOCANU
Subject(s): Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology
Published by: Renaşterea Cluj
Keywords: Folklore Archive of the Romanian Academy; folklore questionnaires; field research; Ion Muşlea; rural intellectuals; letters;

Summary/Abstract: After the founding of the Romanian Academy’s Folklore Archive in Cluj in 1930, Ion Muşlea begun an extensive research, developing fourteen folklore questionnaires on specific issues, six leaf- lets and a few guidebooks, for the use of a network of correspondents of the institution, teachers, priests, but also students from all over Greater Romania. The present study analyzes the thoughts of these rural intellectuals on their experience on the field, on the factors that guarantee/obstruct their success, on the intersubjective way of producing information on the folklore, on the reception of the profession of folklorist, starting from the way these reflections are formulated in the letters sent to the director of the Archive, between 1930-1948.

  • Issue Year: XIII/2019
  • Issue No: 12
  • Page Range: 63-69
  • Page Count: 7
  • Language: Romanian
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