In this paper I analyze the situation of Hungarian ethnography in Romania. In the first part of my paper I present the main aspects of ethnography’s antecedents mentioning the political and ideological commitment of this discipline and also touching upon its status in minority conditions when ethnography is seen as a way for preserving identity. In the second part I present the current situation of ethnography, which has been professionalized and anthropologized and, as a consequence of this, has been drawn away from the amateur movement. In this paper I also delineate the professional personality of Hungarian ethnographers in Cluj.U ovom članku analiziram trenutni položaj i antropologizaciju mađarske etnografije u Rumunjskoj. Jedna od namj...