Paul H. Stahl despre Școala sociologică de la București

Abstract

The paper is written as a comment to a series of interviews the author has conducted with Professor Paul Henri Stahl in the period October 2002 - January 2003. The interviews deal with the scientific legacy of Romanian sociological school led by Dimitrie Gusti, the situation of Romanian social research under the communist regime, ethnographic museums and collections in communist Romania, and the (re)discovery of peasant artisans by the Romanian political and cultural authorities before and after 1989. A particular significance of Professor Paul H. Stahl's memories is that of understanding the implications that an oppresive political regime has to social research, as well as the ideological use of notions like ethnography, folk culture, and folk artifacts.