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The author examines the mythological aspect of the entoregional identity of the modern Mari population in the Kirov oblast’ (the Vyatka, the Urzhum-Vyatka Mari) living in the Malmyzhsky and Urzhumsky districts. The author identifies the role of heroic images in modern ethno-cultural activism and the representation of the Vyatka Mari as the main problem of the study. Due to the multidimensional aspect of the problem, the article includes thematic sub-items: Features of the ethnic and religious identity of the Vyatka Mari - Images of folklore rulers in the perception of local residents - Legendary rulers in ethno-cultural activism and commemorative practices - Sacralization of folklore characters. The author considers this problem on the basis of the field materials (interview texts) collected during his expeditions to the Kirov oblast’ in 2015, 2017, 2021, and the regional media. In a multicultural region, inhabited by different ethnic groups, the Mari represent their identity through festive and sacred practices, as well as the veneration of local legendary rulers and heroes: Princes Akpatyr, Akmazik, Boltush (Poltysh) and others. Folklore heroes are objects of the religious cult of the Mari traditional religion, which is manifested in the ethnoregional self-consciousness of the Mari population. Legendary heroes are perceived by the local population as real historical characters. It is revealed that the beliefs in reality of the Mari heroes reflect the idea of the “golden age” of the history of the Vyatka Mari and their heroized past. The images of Boltush, Akpatyr are actively broadcast through the media, the ethnic component in education, local history literature. Thanks to the efforts of local activists, new objects of the cultural landscape emerge in the Malmyzhsky district - monuments at the sites of the symbolic burials of the Mari rulers. The conclusion is formulated that cultural activism, which appeals to the images of Mari folklore, plays a significant role in marking the ethnoregional identity of the Vyatka Mari people. In the text of the article the characters of the Mari folklore of Vyatka are considered in the context of identity. The obtained result allows to apply this theoretical framework for the study of folklore images in relation to the identities of ethnographic groups of the Mari and other peoples of the Volga region. The article is based on the dissertation “The system of mythological characters in the representation of the identities of modern Mari” for the degree of Candidate of Historical Sciences, defended in 2022 in the N.N. Miklukho-Maklay Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

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The review is devoted to the content of the collective monograph written by the staff of the Department of the Russian People of the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology named after N.N. Miklukho-Maklay of the Russian Academy of Sciences. This paper examines various aspects of Soviet traditionalism, which include: "The phenomenon of Soviet traditionalism": believing communists in Soviet times; the influence of the Soviet system on hierarchs and clergy in the 1960s - 1980s; Eurasianism as an idea and ideology", "Peculiarities of the Religious life of Russians in Soviet and post-Soviet times": categories of Orthodox anthology and the mystical world of Christianity in the worldview and behavior of Russians of the XIX-XXI centuries; factors of preservation and functioning of Orthodox culture in ceremonial and festive life; parish priesthood: traditional practices and the search for new ways of service (XX-XXI centuries)", "The customary law of the Russian village in the XX-the beginning of the XXI century.", "Soviet catering and folk tradition": changes in the food of the Russian people in the light of new political and economic attitudes; Russian Russian people's nutrition during the Great Patriotic War; nutrition of the Russian people during the restoration of the national economy", "Individual groups in Soviet society": old people, widows, beggars." There is no doubt that the content of the peer-reviewed collective monograph will play an important role in the study of Russian traditions in the XX century.

The article precedes a special section of the issue devoted to the traditions, culture, and occupations of the Karakalpaks in line with the increasingly emerging environmental crisis and globalization processes. According to the authors of the articles (Z.I. Kurbanova, M.A. Karlybaev, M.M. Davletiyarov, M.B. Utebaev, T.R. Zhabbarbergenov, G.M. Khozhaniyazov), such aspects of traditional culture as agrarian relations, generic structure, etiquette, monuments of tombstone architecture, terminology related to youth remain in the focus of the modern Karakalpakstan ethnological studies.

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Sanja Zlatanović’s book Etnička identifikacija na posleratnom području: Srpska zajednica jugoistočnog Kosova (Ethnicity in a Post-War Region: The Serbian Community of Southeast Kosovo) provides a valuable picture of the Serbian community of Kosovsko Pomoravlje (South-East Kosovo around Gnilane) during the first years of international rule in the disputed area. The book is based on field research carried out between 2003 and 2006 both in the area and in Southern Serbia with persons displaced from the area. S. Zlatanović describes the subdivisions between “Kosovo old-dwellers” and “Colonists” (of 1920s and 30s); between Serbs and Serbian Gypsies in Kosovo; and between Kosovo Serbs and the population of Central Serbia. She also demonstrates the complexity of the Kosovo Serb perception of their neighbours – Kosovo Croats and Kosovo Albanians. The author reviews both the efficiency and limits of the komšiluk (traditional practice of neighbourhood solidarity), cultural similarities with the Kosovo Albanians, and the role of the Raška-Prizren Diocese of the Serb Orthodox Church and its influence upon the community, e. g., by the overcoming of traditional practices of religious syncretism. This ethnological study will be of use both for ethnologists and social anthropologists of the Balkans, as well as for historians and political scientists. The Kosovo Serb identity, their internal subdivisions, and the cultural stereotypes described by S. Zlatanović will exist as a part of the broader Serbian social texture for the foreseeable future.

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The article examines a special type of artistic perception of a foreign culture by the consciousness of an emigrant - poetic ethnography. The authors present it as a manifestation of artistic ethnography in a lyrical discourse. The singularity of lyrical emotion, the heightened individuality of artistic images of the perception of a foreign culture, their conditioning by certain genre and stylistic features (people's democratic lyrics, symbolism, avant-garde; mythological plot, sketch, essay, lyric monologue, narrative lyrics, etc.), on the one hand, do not create a holistic picture, on the other hand, in capacious details and lyrical remarks they capture not only the essential characteristics of the perceived foreign cultural realities, but also characterize the recipient himself. The material of the study is the lyrics of the poet Arseny Nesmelov, the most distant from scientific ethnographism, the poet of Russian Harbin, and the image of China and the Chinese in the poems of 1926-1945. Nesmelov's images of perception of China and the Chinese in their conceptual content are undergoing evolution - from neomythologism and spatio-temporal indifference inherent in a former metropolitan journalist - to the point of view of a "simple Harbin man in the street" and further, to a detailed penetration into the everyday psychology of ordinary Chinese (Manchus), residents Manchuria (peasants, boatmen, carters, hunghuz, "striker"). In the lyrics and epic lyre, the "Manchurian" Nesmelov very soon abandoned modernist gestures, turning in his ethnographic sketches to narrative as a way of expressing the image of perception. Here, in his arsenal - the most diverse methods of creating an imagological image: portraits, characteristics, dialogical-monologic forms, rhetorical questions, pidginized naming of Russians and Chinese, pictures from life, interspersing regional geographic comments, etc. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper is concerned with codeswitching in transmodal WhatsApp messenger chats. Based on a corpus of text and audio postings from a group of German-Lebanese cousins that is complemented by ethnographic interviews, the study shows that language alternations can be associated with particular metapragmatic or indexical functions in the different modalities. In audio postings, switching between German and Arabic contextualises varying discourse relations. Also, the cousins use Arabic discourse markers (such as ya'ne, ‘it means’) frequently to structure their talk. In contrast, when they switch to Arabic in their text-postings – using Arabizi, a CMC-register in the Arabic-speaking world – this recurrently establishes a playful or ironic frame for ritual teasings. The final section discusses these transmodal and multilingual practices as multi-layered identity positionings vis-à-vis a monolingual society, their multilingual family and networked communities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The article presents the sociological and ethnological features (aspects) in the analysis of state ethnic politics. The possibilities of synthesis between sociological and ethnological methods in the process of analysis of state ethnic politics are determined. The relevance of the influence of sociological and ethnological aspects on the process of rational and prudent ethnic politics in the country in our time is analyzed. The definitions of sociology and ethnology and the sphere of their knowledge and scientific efficiency are given. Constructive derivatives during the synthesis of sociological and ethnological methods of cognition of society are found out. The work of foreign and Ukrainian scientists and researchers on state ethnic politics is considered. The historical process of the late nineteenth - twentieth centuries, which led humanity to the emergence of modern state-administrative issues and problems, is analyzed. The types of social structuring of societies and the social structure of modern Ukrainian society, which is considered to be the most acceptable and generally recognized, are defined as schemes. The ethnic structure of human society on the theory of ethnogenesis, proposed by LM Gumilev at the end of the twentieth century, and the author's vision of socio-ethnic structuring of societies in a schematic form are highlighted. The author presents a schematic view of one of the possible variants of the scientific vision of the ethno-social structuring of the societies of the world, including Ukrainian society. The logical definition of the important scientific term "nation" (nation) and the importance of universalizing the terminological and conceptual base in the analysis of national ethnic politics are presented. Conclusions have been made regarding the prospects for further development of public administration science.

The Term Race and its Synonyms in Polish Scholarly and Popular Science Thought, 1864–1918 In the Polish scholarly literature concerning terminology used in different fields of knowledge, issues of the meaning and usage of the term race have not been discussed. The article aims at demonstrating how the term race was used in the Polish writings. Typically, it was in use interchangeably with terms considered as its synonyms, such as plemię, szczep, gałąź, lud and naród, as well as the notions adapted from natural sciences such as species and variety. All these terms were applied in order to categorize human groups, describe and classify them. The meaning of the notion race was not fully analyzed. Moreover, despite the fact that the Western science and its development was followed and popularized in Poland, no clear definitions appeared there. The majority of Polish authors still used the terms mentioned above as synonyms and understood quite different contents from the point of view of biology, culture and spiritual and social contexts. The term racial was still used interchangeably with such terms as ethnic, ethnographic, ethnological. Even though in the second half of the nineteenth century some Polish scholars (e.g. Ludwik Gumplowicz, Erazm Majewski, and Ludwik Krzywicki) initiated attempts to clarify this terminology, their effort did not ultimately exert an influence on the language of the message. Termin rasa i jego synonimy w polskiej refleksji naukowej i popularnonaukowej w latach 1864–1918 W polskiej literaturze naukowej dotyczącej terminologii stosowanej w różnych dziedzinach wiedzy nie poruszono dotąd zagadnień związanych ze znaczeniem i użyciem terminu rasa. Celem artykułu jest ukazanie sposobu pojmowania tego terminu i zakresu jego stosowania w piśmiennictwie polskim. Najczęściej był on używany zamiennie z określeniami uważanymi za jego synonimy, takimi jak plemię, szczep, gałąź, lud i naród oraz przyswojonymi z nauk przyrodniczych: gatunek i odmiana. Wszystkie te terminy służyły rozróżnianiu grup ludzkich, ich opisowi i klasyfikacji. Nie udawało się zgłębić znaczenia pojęcia rasa. Także nauka zachodnia, którą śledzono i popularyzowano, nie przynosiła jasnych definicji. Większość z piszących stosowała synonimicznie wspomniane terminy i rozumiała pod nimi zupełnie inne treści: biologiczne, kulturowe i duchowe, społeczne. Określenia rasowy natomiast używano zamiennie z takimi wyrazami jak etniczny, etnograficzny, etnologiczny. Choć w drugiej połowie XIX wieku polscy uczeni (Ludwik Gumplowicz, Erazm Majewski, Ludwik Krzywicki) podejmowali próby uporządkowania terminologii, pozostały one bez większego wpływu na język przekazu.

In the early 2020s, international academic interest in Belarus reached, perhaps, an unprecedented level. This was facilitated by the reaction of the country's authorities to the challenges of the Covid-19 pandemic, the political mobilization of society before the presidential election in August 2020, the largest protests against the regime, and the scale of violence and repressions. Simultaneously with the surge of interest, critical thought, as well as sociological and anthropological work in Belarus, have been persecuted. The essay outlines obstacles to research practice in Belarus from different perspectives. It describes how groups of Belarusian society are trying to compensate for the lack of sociological data by interpreting figures from the available sources or conducting grassroots surveys and interviews. Attention is drawn to the weaknesses of both grassroots sociology and external interpretations of «authoritative» data (surveys conducted by the research institutes). The text presents arguments in favor of more inclusive, sensitive and horizontal selection of empirical data from Belarus. The conclusion discusses ways to avoid ethnographic silence about Belarus and the conceptual perspectives of the Belarusian case. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The subject of this article is the phenomenon of women in white who came out in the streets of Belarusian cities to silently protest against the violence of the dictatorship and to show solidarity with those arrested, beaten and killed by the dictatorial police. This form of peaceful protest by women is analyzed from a historical point of view, but also compared to other protest movements found in democracies (Belgium, France) and in dictatorships (Cuba, Argentina in 1976 -1983). It is interesting to note that in the 19th century Belarus already experienced such a women's protest movement known as a movement of women in black. The women's protests also known as the white marches have become the object of political, sociological, ethnological and gender interest. The phenomenon is analyzed in the text from the perspective of these disciplines. The starting point of the peaceful protest study is the perspective of social movements in general. Gradually a gender perspective and especially the specificity of social movements under the dictatorship are added to the analysis. An approach to gender ethnology and in particular the use of Françoise Héritier's concept of differential valence of the sexes are especially enriching to understanding the women in white movements. Finally, the comparison to other women in white movements that exist today or have existed before allows us to consider possible scenarios of its evolution. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Robert Harry Lowie, Franz Boas (1858-1942) ekolünden bir antropolog ve etnologtur. Lowie’nin yaşadığı dönemde ve öncesinde etnolojik veriler, kâşifler, seyyahlar, misyonerler ve zayıf eğitimli kimseler tarafından yazılmış tâli kaynaklardan elde ediliyordu. Lowie, hocası Boas gibi bu verileri ilk elden saha çalışmasıyla temin etmeleri gerekliliğine inanıyordu. Şehir alışkanlıklarına sahip biri olarak, Lowie’nin bu gayeyle uzak ve fevkalade zorlu bölgelerde alan çalışması yapması dikkat çekicidir. Başka hiçbir Amerikalı antropolog, saha çalışması metot ve esaslarını onun kadar geliştiremedi. Antropoloji, Etnoloji ve Külterel Antropoloji’ye dair görüşlerini Culture and Ethnology (Kültür ve Teknoloji), Primitive Society (İlkel Toplum), Primitive Religion (İlkel Din), An Introduction to Culture Anthropology (Kültür Antropolojisine Bir Giriş) ve The History of Ethnological Theory (Etnolojik Teori Tarihi) adlı kitaplarında açıkladı. Almanya ve Alman toplumuyla ilgisini The German People: A Social Portrait to 1914 (Alman Toplumu: 1914’e Sosyal Bir Betimleme) adlı kitabıyla sürdürdü. Lowie, siyaset felsefesiyle de ilgiliydi. Bu konuya dair görüşlerini The Origin of the State (Devletin Kökeni) adlı kitabında ele aldı.

The article opens up a new research series entitled “Significance of the Folklore Materials, stored in the Department of Manuscripts at IWL RAS and in other archives, both in Russia and abroad” and offers philological interpretation of the samples of Russian folklore culture, hitherto unknown to the broad academic community. These samples belong to the tradition fundamental for the development of Russian civilization and the meanings of national mentality. Folk culture / folklore play important role in this development, as do folklore studies that examine folklore sources, their ideological constants and aesthetics concepts. The study, focusing on the analysis of the newly acquired folklore heritage, attempts to evaluate the significance of these materials and ensure their harmonious entry into the already existing folklore system. The presented research will undoubtedly enrich both Russian folklore studies and literary criticism.

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The first ethnographic series of drawings by Russian artist-traveler Nikolay Karazin are rated in this article. They were created from 1867 to 1870 based on sketches made during military campaigns in Central Asia. The series "Turkestan views and types" and "Turkestan types" in the center of research. They were published in the magazines "Всемирная иллюстрация" (The World illustration) and "Нива" (The Niva) in 1872. These graphics were supplemented by the fragments of literary Karazin's works: travel notes and ethnographic stories. The complex art history method was used. The separate compositions' analysis of magazine graphics accompanied by some original author's drawings of that time. Such works of Nikolay Karazin as The caravan of the carpenters' artel in the steppe, etude Тhe wagon in the desert and The sling boys compared with graphic creations of Polish artists Aleksander Orłowski, Bronisław Zaleski and Ukrainian painter and poet Taras Shevchenko - also interested in ethnographic theme. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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At the present time, there are less than 5000 Albanians in the Ukraine and only half of them can speak their native language. For the most part, they live in four villages in the south of the country. The culture, history and dialect of Albanians in the Ukraine excited much interest in the 20th century. However, this interest has waned, and during the first two decades of the 21st century this subject is only still popular with specialists in Balkan studies, linguistics, ethnography, social and cultural anthropology, as well as some local amateur researchers. Several important studies on Albanians in the Ukraine have been published recently both by Ukrainian and Russian scholars. Some of them reveal data from the archives that were collected about seventy years ago, while others are based on the most recent field research. In our paper we attempt to analyze three monographs that appeared in 2014 and in 2017. Our goal is to attract more attention to these editions, and not to commend or criticize our colleagues. Using these publications, we reviewed relevant and some possibly problematic issues in Balkan Studies today. In our opinion, these issues could be expressed in three statements: a) it is impossible to get the relevant image of local ethnography, culture, inter-ethnic/interconfessional relations if the linguistic data is not fully involved in the research; b) it is not possible to provide a relevant analysis of linguistic peculiarities of the local dialect since the issues of cultural code and local identity are not taken into account; c) the archives of our predecessors should not be regarded as museum heritage, but they should instead be modified and analyzed in the context of the most recent theories and technologies. We all face the problem of how to save our field research data from becoming museum objects, and how to make it useful and accessible to our colleagues and subsequent generations. Today, there are no readily available solutions, but we believe that language corpora supported by a strong network of various historical, ethnographical, anthropological, etc. commentaries could be a helpful way forward. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The asynchronous VN-reflexes (Bulaestian /ч’iндреǐ/ ‘generous’ presents a clear example) in the Ukrainian dialects were in depth considered by P. E. Hritsenko and were clearly explained as a “phonetic polonism”. Well, the question is when and how this phenomena appeared in the Bulaestian dialect? We should consider the following facts here: 1) in general, polonisms are presented in the Bulaestian dialect by some early examples mainly; 2) the great part of polonisms known in other Ukrainian dialects are absent in the Bulaestian one; 3) Polish szczodry ‘generous’ do not demonstrate any VN-reflex; 4) we see some analogies (шандрий, чандрий) in some other south-western Ukrainian dialects; 5) it is unlikely that these analogies appeared independently at all (at least that concerns the forms чандрий and чeндрий); 6) anyway, it is obviously impossible to get the Bulaestian variant neither from чандрий (conversely, чандрий appeared as a result of /e/ to /a/ transition from чeндрий), nor, more over, from шандрий (as it demonstrates, in addition, a loss of /ч/ from the initial /шч/). So, the phonetic form /ч’iндреǐ/ is an archaic one and reflects some early times of ethnic and linguistic history of Bulaestians.

This paper considers the descriptive-extensive method used by Russian orientalist ethnographers in their Eurasian studies during the era of “geographical race”, i.e., in the last third of the 19th century. In the Russian Empire, the Military Ministry, Imperial Geographical Society, and Academy of Sciences organized geographical and ethnological expeditions to Central Asia. Field diaries are the main sources for the study. They served as both a means of recording heterogeneous data received by the researcher on a certain day and documents that described the daily life and expeditionary results. For comparison, the materials of the first expedition to New Guinea by N.N. Miklouho-Maclay (1871–1872) and the journey to Tuva (1889) and Xinjiang (1890) by N.F. Katanov have been taken. The comparison is possible from several perspectives, including the preference given by both researchers to working alone or with a small group of assistants, stationary studies in the local community. The analysis of the expeditionary materials and equipment has shown that the activity of solitary researchers was inseparable from the foreign policy priorities of the Russian Empire. Furthermore, the materials collected were important for military intelligence, not only for the relevant branches of science. Therefore, the common view of N.N. Miklouho-Maclay and N.F. Katanov as pure scientists, who were distanced from the main political problems of their time, needs comprehensive revision.

This article is part of the larger research project “Philosophical Thought of the Russian ‘Silver Age’ and Folklore.” Its aim is philosophical reflection of the Russian folk culture considering it as living tradition that largely determines the development of Russian civilization and the meanings of national mentality. Philological and philosophical branches of folklore studies are particularly important for the ongoing research of folklore and its role in national culture; philosophical folklore studies, for example, are concerned with ideological concepts and dominants of folk poetry. This article examines the choice of folklore vector in the work of Ivan Il’yin, a philosopher of Russian post-revolutionary Immigration diaspora in Europe. It for the first time introduces and motivates a concept of folklore imperative that dominated the late phase of Il’yin’s philosophical thought. Also, it introduces new materials that shed light on the study of this choice that was very important for Russian philosophy, literature, and culture as it was for Russian folklore studies.

The current study approaches the following query: is the traditional Moldovan folk art in a process of involution, revolution or evolution? To this aim, four distinct historic ethnologic periods are defined: medieval, premodern, modern and post-modern. Subsequently, the evolution of the traditional costume, one of the most prominent Moldovan-Romanian folk art products, is examined through the lenses of its changing functional, symbolic and artistic value. The notion of ethnic costume is introduced to include both the modern apparel whose visual aspect reminds of traditional costume or ornaments as well as any folk-style costume characteristic to previous periods. The analysis concludes that the ethnic costume is not in decline in Moldovan society. Its significance and role has evolved and adapted through a continuous presence and use in each of the four historic periods. Based on the example of the evolution of the traditional costume, the study concludes that Moldovan traditional art has rather thrived through history. This conclusion, nevertheless, deserves to be corroborated by further complementary studies.

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This article deals with the description of the posthumous destiny of the dead in the horror story A Terrible Vengeance by Mykola Gogol. It describes the patrimonial cemetery of the sorcerer, where all his ancestors were buried. Their corpses rise from their graves, but the first local dead man, the largest of them, cannot rise, and his movements cause earthquakes. These images can be fully understood only in comparison with Chuvash beliefs about the first buried dead person as the cemetery master and also with Zoroastrian and Ossetian mythological concepts. The Chuvashes and the Iranian-speaking nations, primarily the Ossetians, have parallels to the plot about a father coveting his daughter and killing his grandchild, the soul’s wanderings during sleep, and other related motifs. Thus, the folkloric motifs on which the story is constructed help to reveal the ethnocultural connections of the early Ukrainians. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The essay is focused on the spiritual crisis of Russian culture at the beginning of the 20th Century and on the search of philosophical alternatives to overcome the crisis within the framework of Russian philosophical thought. In particular, it highlights the work of Boris P. Vysheslavtzev, a major thinker among Russian immigrants and his studies in Russian folklore seen as reflection of Russian national character. The essay for the first time introduces new data concerning the specificity of the choice that was highly important for Russian literature and culture as it was for Russian folklore studies.

Dinler tarihi sahasında olduğu kadar Sosyoloji, Etnoloji ve Filoloji alanlarında da dünya çapında büyük öneme sahip P. Wilhelm Schmidt hakkında Türkiye'de şimdiye kadar fazla bir çalışma yapılmamıştır. Makale, Wilhelm Schmidt'i tanıtmak, bilimsel faaliyetleri hakkında bilgi vermek amacıyla yazılmıştır. Kendini bilime adamış bir din adamı olan Schmidt'in en önemli faaliyetleri arasında Viyana üniversitesinde verdiği Etnoloji dersleri, Viyana'da açtığı Etnoloji Müzesi, Roma'da kurduğu Lateran Misyon-Etnoloji Müzesi, İsviçre ve Avusturya'daki üniversitelere profesör olarak yaptığı katkılar ile Anthropos Dergisi ve Anthropos Enstitüsü yer almaktadır.

The founders of scientific bibliography in Romanian folklore Ion Mushlea, Adrian Fochi, Ion Oprishan, Iordan Datcu and others, have remarked its capacity to organically incorporate in similar international efforts, therewith the perspective to comprehend the scientific circumstances unanimously internationally recognized, representing a systematic scientific result, meeting world requirements. Updating ethnological bibliography is a necessity, due to the fact that it represents the first working instrument, being essential for stylization of traditional national cultural heritage and for its comprehension in the international scientific circuit. The lack of such a working instrument by today may be considered a critical gap for folkloric science. With this project, the folkloric science in Republic of Moldova enters into a new era of acquisition, analysis and folkloric adjustment in our country, having a unifying role of inclusive efforts held in this field. This project is built-up from direct bibliographical references, articles, re-editions, reviews, bibliographical notes, chronicles, studies, questionnaires, selections, collections, anthologies, rural and areal monographs etc., all in ensemble playing a formative role and basis in the process of generation and development of modern Romanian culture.