Burial: Towards the cemetery (Mort the child of Ana Sârbu), Runcu, Gorj County, 1930

Iosif Berman · 1930

In the picture is presented the funeral cortege on the way to the cemetery. On the shoulders are the bears the cross that will stand at the dead man’s quarters and the coffin lid. Photography during the excavations (June 29 - August 18, 1930) from Runcu, Gorj, village documented in 1486, located at the foothills of the Vâlcan Mountains in Sohodolului Gorge. Under the leadership of Professor Dimitrie Gusti (1880-1955, sociologist, academician, politician, initiator of the Sociological School from Bucharest) a team of 60 monographers has researched here methodically and analytically all the areas of his life - cosmological, biological, psychological, historical, economic, spiritual, politico-administrative. Following this campaign we defined the Romanian concepts about the theory and technique of sociological monography that were later known, appreciated and applied in European profile research. Photography, cacherata on a cardboard sheet; information: region, locality, title (in Romanian, French, German), date, photographer.