Ioan TOȘA, Tudor SĂLĂGEAN
Cluj-Napoca, Muzeul Etnografic al Transilvaniei
The authors present some aspects of the activity carried out by the Department and the Seminar of Ethnography and Folklore, in the context of celebrating nine decades since the inauguration. Setting up the Department was decided by the Commission for organizing the University of Cluj, but implementation of this decision was delayed by the lack of a material base (library, photograph library and film slide library), the lack of suitable space for seminar works, and not least because of titular’s absence.
The authors further present the activity of the Ethnographic Museum of Transylvania to create the material base, of the Romanian Ethnographic Society for research and exploitation of popular culture, and G. Vâlsan’s activity to train specialists.
Finally, we presented courses held within the Department and the work done in the Seminar, indicating themes of the papers presented by students.
Keywords: ethnography, ethnology, folklore, definition, field, research methods, house, habits, grazing, folk medicine