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194Gabriela Boangiuthe other hand. Numerous researches have been conducted “with the only aim ofsustaining or rejecting ethnical quests, the aim of projecting a social class as anexclusive agent of cultural creation” 18 . There are recent researches that provethat Ethnologists really preoccupied by the social and cultural phenomena havetried to stay apart from the ideologies of the times.A particular case is that presented by Anca Stere in the study: “TheSocial Dimensions of the Folkloric Text in the Post War Totalitarism”, which isfocused on the fact that Romanian researchers also managed to recordanticommunist texts; they have been offering good reasons from the point ofview of Communist ideology, in this way, being allowed to continue to recordthose facts 19 . And this example of Romanian Ethnology, meant to denyideology–like theories of the times, was not a singular one. Moreover, from thescientific point of view of some social phenomena specific to our cultural space,Romanian Ethnology recorded complex and rigorously conducted researches notas a mere reaction against the distortions made by the ideology of theCommunist System.With a view to the collaboration among European Ethnologists, Coleemphasized “there have been made more or less happy efforts, to developregional cooperation, for example in the Northern Isles in Iberia and inMediterranean areas”. He considered these efforts contributed to a “unifyingperspective over the entire Ethnological phenomenon”. The process of dividingEuropean Ethnology tends to its unification, “the national Ethnologies focusingon community now” 20 .Contemporary Ethnology is oriented to achieving a conceptualcoherence, to expand the space of scientific debates on one hand, and toapproach new thematic areas on the other hand. “Ethnologists like to say thereare more areas that find their place in the middle of their own societies toexplore” 21 nowadays.Spreading western values in the “traditional” areas either directly,constant or temporary (temporary, seasonal, migrations), with the socio-culturalenvironment, or indirectly (media, group of friends) is a real challenge, and it isopened to ethnological debates. The relation tradition-modernism, thephenomenon of re-inventing traditions, represents preoccupations of contemporaryEthnology, exceeding its initial aim to emphasize broader temporality 22 .18 Ibidem .19 Anca Stere, The Social Dimensions of the Folkloric Text in the Post War Totalitarismin “Symposia. Workbooks of Ethnology and Anthropology”, 2003, Craiova, Aius, p. 90.20 John W. Cole, op. cit., p. 28-31.21 Pierre Bonte, Michel Izard (coordinators), op. cit., p.465.22 Denys Cuch, The Notion of Culture, (translated by Mihai-Eugen Avădanei), Iaşi,European Institute, 2003, p.52-53; Marie-Odile Géraud, Olivier Leservoisier, Richard Pottier, op.cit., p. 19.