Az Erdélyi Múzeum-Egyesület és az Erdélyi Múzeum népköltészettel kapcsolatos tevékenysége (1859–1948)
The Transylvanian Museum Society’s and the Transylvanian Museum’s Activity Concerning Folklore (1859−1948)

Summary/Abstract: The Transylvanian Museum Society was founded in 1859. The society’s statutes, never proposed to research folklore, but the interest for the folk poetry was all the time present, with various intensity, in the society’s activities as well as in reading meetings or in the society’s papers. In the Transylvanian Museum, there were published many articles related to folklore, which can be categorized in five thematic groups such as: 1) collecting activities, 2) the theoretical, conceptual and methodological topics, 3) the historical view on folklore phenomena, 4) the transition genre between folklore and literature, 5) the review of the Romanian folk poetry and the Romanian-Hungarian folkloric interchanges. This paper review the achievements on these five domains and it reasons on the fact that the folklore orientation was more emphatic in the society’s history when ethnography was taught at the University in Kolozsvár (Cluj), near the turn of the 19th century and during the 40’s in the 20th century.

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