The complex museum of rural architecture and traditional technology is representative of the entire Romanian folk creation of the last three centuries. The museum now includes 346 buildings (farmhouses, stables and shelters ...

In the present article interchange processes and reciprocal borrowings between Ukrainians and Romanians of Bukovina (first of all, in its southern part) are analyzed on the example of the winter carnival traditions (walking ...

The Folk Archives as a creator and a preserver of the audio-visual documents of the untouchable culture (folklore) has to use different kinds of materials for recording the sound, the image and the text. Related to the ...

Mircea Eliade still wakens a large interest, both in Romanian and international literary circles as his complex personality, but especially his studies, greatly inspired, partly due to the orientation towards the past, and ...

In Romania, the crisis of the popular culture and the necessity to preserve its characteristic elements by publishing a Romanian Ethnographic Atlas was realized later. The Romanian ethnographers had the possibility to make ...

In the article considered the evolution of the Ruthenian movement in modern Romania, who went public and political arena in the country at the beginning of the XXI century. According to the results of population census ...

This study started off from the idea that each item of traditional civilization from Maramures implies a decoding of a bi-univocal relation between the native Romanian and the minority populations, as well. Each of these ...

A brief study of the history of the Romanian folkloristics reveals three leading scholars in that field before the mid-20th century: B. P. Hasdeu, O. Densusianu, and D. Caracostea. The centennial of the first lesson of ...