Cosmina Timoce-Mocanu is a Researcher at “The Folklore Archives of the Romanian Academy” Institute, Cluj-Napoca Branch of the Romanian Academy, Romania. Areas of competence: ethnology and folklore. Her research focuses on the history of ethnology and study of folklore in communist and post-communist Romania, the specifics of archive texts, and the epistemological status of ethnographical documents, traditional cultures and their dynamics. Among her publications: Antropologia ritualului funerar. Trei perspective [The Anthropology of the Funeral Ritual. Three Perspectives], Cluj-Napoca, Mega Publishing House, 2013.
