Anca Giurchescu (1930-2015), etnochoreologist and Romanian dance researcher, published numerous works in many languages during her career covering over six decades. This page lists the majority of her works in the table below.

Anca published two books on her ethnographic research:

1. Folclor Coregraphic din Tara Vrancei, 1974, (co-author Constantin Eretescu) in Romanian
2. Romanian Traditional Dance, 1995, (co-author Sunni Bloland) in English

In addition she was co-editor for two proceedings of the ICTM Study Group on Ethnomusicology (1991 and 2012), a special edition on dance of the ICTM Yearbook (1991), and the book “Manele in Romania : cultural expression and social meaning in Balkan popular music” (2016).

Anca’s academic publications can be roughly divided by years into three groups:

1. 1957-1979  Articles published in the Journal of the Institute of Ethnography and Folklore ‘Revistă de folclor or ‘Revistă de etnografie și folclor’ in Romanian, plus some additional papers in other Romanian journals, and some in foreign journals (ICTM Yearbook, Der Tanz).
2. 1983-1990  Papers included in ICTM (International Council of Traditional Music) publications in English, as well as papers published in German, French, Danish and Hungarian. In this period Anca also travelled extensively to give conference and symposium presentations in many countries.
3. 1990-2015  Articles in Romanian mostly on her long term research on the căluș ritual. Papers included in ICTM (International Council of Traditional Music) publications in English, and papers in other journals.

Authors	Year	Title	Book/Journal	Details
Anca Giurchescu	1957	Jocurile din Vrancea	Revista de Folclor	vol.2, no.4, pages 55-76
Anca Giurchescu	1957	Din realizării folcloristicii noastre	Revista de Folclor	vol.2, no.4, pages 129-30
Anca Giurchescu	1959	Despre cicurile de joc din Ardeal	Revista de Folclor	vol.4, no.1-2, pages 261-278
Anca Giurchescu	1959	Suită de dansuri bulgăreşti şi suită de dansuri tătăreşti,	Dansuri populare ale naționalităților conlocuitoare
Anca Giurchescu	1960	Câteva problema legate de aspectul cotemporan al jocului popular românesc	Revista de Folclor	vol.5, no.3-4, pages 65-72
Anca Giurchescu	1961	Dezbateri în legatură cu repertoriul ansamblurilor de cântece şi dansuri	Revista de Folclor	vol.6, no.1-2, pages 131-134
Anca Giurchescu	1962	Jocuri fecioreşti din Ardeal	Revista de Folclor	vol.7, no.1-2, pages 181-186
Anca Giurchescu	1962	Opportunities for folk dancing In the upper Mures valley	Information Bulletin No. 5 : The folklore festival of the Balkan and Adriatic countries, Rumanian People’s Republic, Bucharest July 27th - August 4th 1962	pages 6-9
Anca Giurchescu and Costin Costea	1962	Haidăul	Revista de Folclor	vol.7, no.1-2, pages 94-117
Anca Giurchescu and Costin Costea	1962	Aspecte folclorice noi şi tradiţionale din raionul Topliţa	Revista de Folclor	vol.7, no.3-4, pages 97-101
Anca Giurchescu	1963	Din realizările noastre: Discuţii asupra terminologiei în jocul popular	Revista de Folclor	vol.8, no.1-2, pages 159-174
Anca Giurchescu	1963	Jocurile ciobăneşti din satul Dumbrava	Revista de Folclor	vol.8, no.3-4, pages 60-73
Anca Giurchescu	1964	Analiza Structurii Dansuri Popular Rominesc	Revista de Etnografie și Folclor	vol.9, no.2, pages 191-199
Anca Giurchescu	1964	Două lucrări maghiare privind studiul dansului popular	Revista de Etnografie și Folclor	vol.9, no.3, pages 312-314
Anca Giurchescu	1964	Însemnări pe marginea celui de-ai VII-lea concurs al formaților artistice de amatori	Revista de Etnografie și Folclor	vol.9, no.6, pages 639-642
Anca Giurchescu	1964	Was erwarten wir von einer zeitgenossischen folkloristichen Choreographie?	Der Tanz	vol.12, pages 19-21
Anca Giurchescu	1965	Obervaţii asupra structurii arhitectonice a dansurilor cu formă fixa	Revista de Etnografie și Folclor	pages 389-398
Anca Giurchescu	1965	Probleme des rumänischen Volkstanzes	Der Tanz	vol.1, pages 1-21
Anca Giurchescu	1966	Filmul ca instrument al cercetării folclorice	Revista de Etnografie și Folclor	vol.11, no.3, pages 251-258
Vera Proca-Ciortea and Anca Giurchescu	1966	Conferinţele internaţionale de terminologie a dansului popular	Revista de Etnografie și Folclor	vol.11, no.1, pages 86-88
Anca Giurchescu	1967	Purtatele de fete de pe Valea Târnavelor	Revista de Etnografie și Folclor	vol.12, no.4, pages 283-298
Anca Giurchescu	1968	Congresul Uniunii folcloriştilor iugoslavi	Revista de Etnografie și Folclor	vol.13, no.1, pages 95-6
Anca Giurchescu	1968	Aspecte ale fenomenului de improvizaţie în dansul popular românesc	Revista de Etnografie și Folclor	vol.13, no.3, pages 229-234
Vera Proca-Ciortea and Anca Giurchescu	1968	Quelques aspects théoriques de l'analyse de la danse populaire [Some Theoretical Aspects of Folk Dance Analysis].	Éditions Larousse	vol.3, no.10, pages 87-93
Anca Giurchescu	1969	Dansul în obiceiul calusarilor [Dance in the calusari custom]	Festivalul Calusului Slatina 28 - 29 Iunie 1969 : Studii, referate si comunicari [The festival of Calus: Studies, papers, and communications]	pages 29-41
Anca Giurchescu	1970	Cercetarea contextuală a dansurilor populare	Revista de Etnografie și Folclor	vol.15, no.1, pages 21-28
Anca Giurchescu	1970	Colaborarea românească cu "Institut für den Wissenschaftlichen Film-Göttingen"	Revista de Etnografie și Folclor	vol.15, no.6, pages 529-31
Anca Giurchescu	1971	Raportul între modelul folcloric şi produsele spectaculare de dans popular	Revista de Etnografie și Folclor	vol.16, no.5, pages 369-374
Anca Giurchescu and Radu Niculescu	1971	Theses sure la structure de la danse folklorique (research paper).	Seminar of audio-visual semiotics
Anca Giurchescu	1972	Functionaliţatea dansurilor funebre în concepţia populară	Folclor Literar (1969-70)	vol.III, pages 121-128
Anca Giurchescu	1972	Repertoriu de dansuri populare	Atlasul Complex Portile de Fier	pages 246-247
Anca Giurchescu	1972	Repertoriu de dansuri populare (Ada Kaleh) (The repertory of folk dances)	Atlasul Complex Portile de Fier	pages 260-262
Anca Giurchescu	1973	Unele aspecte ale interferenţei dintre sfera culturii populare şi cea a culturii de masă	Revista de Etnografie și Folclor	vol.17, no.3, pages 181-90
Anca Giurchescu	1973	La Danse comme objet sémiotique	Yearbook of the International Folk Music Council	vol.5, pages 175-178
Anca Giurchescu	1974	The căluș	Balkan Arts Traditions	vol. Spring 1974, pages 25-10
Anca Giurchescu	1974	Une contribution a l'etude comparee du folklore choreographique roumain et celui de la Yougoslavie, la danse de «Căluşari»	Rad XIV, Kongresa Saveza folklorista Jugoslavije u Prizrenu, 1967	pages 389-394
Anca Giurchescu and Constantin Eretescu	1974	Folclor Coregraphic din Tara Vrancei
G Wolf and Anca Giurchescu	1974	IWF Calusari Priseaca E2020
Anca Giurchescu	1975 (2002)	Időszerű kérdések a román néptánc kutatásában" [Topical Issues in the Study of Romanian Folk Dance]	Tánctudományi Tanulmányok	pages 191-204
Anca Giurchescu	1976	Obiceiul călușului - permanenta a culturii românesti" (The căluș custom-permanency of the Romanian culture), .	Research paper presented at the scientific session of the Institute of Ethnological and Dialectological Research, Bucharest, September, 1976
G Wolf and Anca Giurchescu	1976	IWF Calusari Priseaca Dance & Death game E1654
G Wolf and Anca Giurchescu	1976	IWF Calusari Priseaca Setting up Flag and Dance in Courtyard E1653
Anca Giurchescu	1977	Valorificarea folclorului în cadrul festivalului național "Cântarea României"	Revista de Etnografie și Folclor	vol.21, no.2, pages 227-31
Anca Giurchescu	1979	Trăsături specifice ale dansului popular românesc în context european	Anuarul Institutului de Cercetări Etnologice şi Dialectologice	vol.1,
Anca Giurchescu	1983	The process of improvisation in folk dance	Dance Studies	vol.7, pages 21-56
Anca Giurchescu	1983	Entwurf einer Klassifizierung der rumänischen Kettentänze	Analyse und Klassifikazion von Volkstanzen	pages 160-190
Anca Giurchescu	1983/4	Dansen som kulturel udtryksform : Forskningsprojektet: Danse-etnologi, et bidrag til folkedansens teori og forskningsmetode i en nutidig social kontekst	Humaniora	vol.6, pages 191-197
Anca Giurchescu	1984	European perspectives in structural analysis of dance	Dance a multicultural perspective. Report of the third study of dance conference	pages 33-48
Anca Giurchescu	1984	Danse et Transe: Les căluşari (Interpretation d’un rituel valaque)	Dialogue Revue d’Ètudes Roumaines et des Traditions Orale Mediterannéennes	no.12-13, pages 81-118
Anca Giurchescu	1986	Power and Charm. Interaction of Adolescent Men and Women in Traditional Settings of Transylvania	Yearbook for Traditional Music	vol.18, pages 37-46
Anca Giurchescu	1986	Dance text and contextual research	Proceedings of the ICTM Study Group on Ethnochoreology meeting in Neubrandenburg, DDR, 8-12 May.
Anca Giurchescu	1987	The national festival ‘Song to Romania’ : manipulation of symbols in the political discourse	Symbols of power	pages 163-171
Anca Giurchescu	1987	The dance discourse. Dance suites and dance cycles of Romania and elsewhere in Europe	Dance Studies	vol.11, pages 9-71
Anca Giurchescu	1988	Dansens dobbelte rolle : om vlacherne et folk med hjemvé	Længde S.	vol.10, no.42, pages 12-19
Anca Giurchescu	1988	Continuitate si discontinuitate in traditia culturala a romanilor din sudul Dunarii, stabiliti in Danemarca" (Continuity and discontinuity in the cultural tradition of the Romanians south of the Danube settled in Denmark)	Journal of the American Romanian Academy of Arts and Sciences	vol.1, pages 231-241
Anca Giurchescu	1989	Den rumænske tragedie	Kristeligt dagblad
Anca Giurchescu	1989	A question of method: contextual analysis of dancing at the vlachs "hora" in Denmark	The dance event: a complex cultural phenomenon: The 15th Symposium of the ICTM Study Group on Ethnochoreology, Copenhagen, 1988	pages 34–43
Anca Giurchescu	1990	Le Căluş: proces de transformation d'un rituel roumain	Tradition et Histoire dans la Culture Populaire
Anca Giurchescu	1990	The use of traditional symbols for recasting the present : a case study of tourism in Rumania	Dance Studies	vol.14, pages 47-64
Anca Giurchescu	1991	Methods of Research: Studying a dance event among the Vlachs living in Denmark	Proceedings of the Second British-Swedish Conference on Musicology: Ethnmusicology, Cambridge, 5-10 August 1989.	pages 341-355
Anca Giurchescu and László Felföldi	1991	Introduction	Studia Musicologica, Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae: The 16th Symposium of the ICTM Study Group on Ethnochoreology, Budapest, 1990	vol.33, pages 197–202
Anca Giurchescu and Lisbet Torp	1991	Theory and methods in dance research: A European approach to the holistic study of dance	Yearbook for Traditional Music	vol.23, pages 1 -10
Anca Giurchescu	1992	A comparative analysis between the căluș of the Danube: plain and călușerul of Transylvania (Romania)	Studia Musicologica, Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae: The 16th Symposium of the ICTM Study Group on Ethnochoreology, Budapest, 1990	vol.34, pages 31–44
Anca Giurchescu	1993	Ecologia culturii populare	Datini : Revistă de Cultură	vol.2-5, pages 4-5
Anca Giurchescu	1993	Folklore in the service of the state ideology, Romania: a case study (research paper).	Presented to the Symposium on the Balkans: folklore and national symbols, Institute for European Studies
Anca Giurchescu	1993	A táncszimbólum, mint a kommunikáció eszköze [The dance symbol as a means of communication]	Martin György Emlékezeti Visszaemlékezések és tanulmányok születésének hatvanadik évfordulójára	pages 61-68
Anca Giurchescu and Lisbet Torp	1993	Folk Dance Collections and Folk Dance Research in Denmark and the Færoe Islands	Yearbook for Traditional Music	vol.25, pages 126 - 135
Anca Giurchescu	1994	The dance symbol as a means of communication	Acta Ethnographica Hungarica	vol.39, no.1-2, pages 95-102
Anca Giurchescu	1994	The power and the dance symbol and its sociopolitical use	Dance and its socio-political aspects: dance and costume: The 17th Symposium of the ICTM Study Group on Ethnochoreology, Nafplion, 1992	pages 15–24
Anca Giurchescu	1994	Valoarea documentului	Datini : Revistă de Cultură	vol.4-5,
Anca Giurchescu	1995	From myth to reality and back again: symbolic manipulation of a Romanian ritual and its iconographic documents”.	Research paper presented at the colloquium on the topic „Myth and reality in dance pictures”, Innsbruck, Austria, June 13-14.
Anca Giurchescu and Sunni Bloland	1995	Romanian traditional dance : A contextual and structural approach
Anca Giurchescu and Lisbet Torp	1995	Dance-music relationships: an introduction	Dance, ritual and music: Proceedings of the 18th Symposium of the Study Group on Ethnochoreology, Skiemiewice, 1994	pages 143–150
Anca Giurchescu	1997	Unitatea Călușului în spațiul cultural carpato-dunărean	Datini : Revistă de Cultură	vol.1-2, pages 20-21
Anca Giurchescu	1998	Gypsy dance style as a marker of ethnic identity	Dance, style youth identities: Proceedings of the 19th Symposium of the Study Group on Ethnochoreology, Třešt', 1996	pages 80–87
Anca Giurchescu	1999	Past and present in field research : a critical history of personal experience	Dance in the field : theory, methods and issues in dance ethnography	pages 41-54
Anca Giurchescu	1999	Les danses du monde. Exemples musicaux	Cahiers d’ethnomusicologie [Online]	vol.12, pages 220-224
Anca Giurchescu	2000	Gypsy Dance Style as Marker of Ethnic Identity	Music, language, and literature of the Roma and Sinti
Anca Giurchescu	2000	Interpreting a dancer's discourse on improvisation	Traditional Dance and Its Historical Sources. Creative Processes in Dance: Improvisation and Composition: 20th Symposium Proceedings, İstanbul, 1998	pages 259–274
Anca Giurchescu	2001	The power of dance and its social and political uses	Yearbook for Traditional Music	vol.33, pages 109-121
Anca Giurchescu	2001	Le danseur et le musicien, une connivence nécessaire	Cahiers d’ethnomusicologie [Online]	vol.14, pages 79-94
Anca Giurchescu	2001	Căluș between ritual and national symbol: survival and the strategy of adaptation to contemporary social settings	Proceedings: 21st Symposium of the ICTM Study Group on Ethnochoreology, Korčula, 2000	pages 62–69
Anca Giurchescu	2001	Gypsy dancing in southern Romania	Glasba In Manjšine - Music and Minorities. Proceedings of the 1st ICTM Study group Music and Minorities, Ljubljana, Slovenia, June 25-30, 2000.	pages 177-187
Anca Giurchescu	2003	Dance aesthetics in traditional Romanian communities	Yearbook for Traditional Music	vol.35, pages 163-171
Anca Giurchescu	2004	Căluş - between ritual and national symbol	www.hgo.se/Căluş
Anca Giurchescu	2005	Dance aesthetics in traditional Romanian communities	Dance and Society: Dancer as a Cultural Perfomer: 22nd Symposium of the ICTM Study Group on Ethnochoreology, Szeged, 2002	pages 216–223
Anca Giurchescu	2005	Report on the fieldwork experiment in Bulgaria (2001)	Dance and Society: Dancer as a a Cultural Perfomer: 22nd Symposium of the ICTM Study Group on Ethnochoreology, Szeged, 2002	pages 235–240
Anca Giurchescu	2005	History of the ICTM study group on ethnochoreology	Dance and Society: Dancer as a a Cultural Perfomer: 22nd Symposium of the ICTM Study Group on Ethnochoreology, Szeged, 2002	pages 252–266
Anca Giurchescu	2007	A historical perspective on the analysis of dance structure in the International Folk Music Council (IFMC) / International Council for Traditional Music (ICTM)	Dance structures : perspectives on the analysis of human movement	vol.3, pages 3-18
Anca Giurchescu and Eva Kröschlová	2007	Theory and method of dance form analysis	Dance structures: perspectives on the analysis of human movement	vol.Studies in ethnology, 3, pages 21-52
Anca Giurchescu	2008	Căluş: between ritual and national symbol. The cultural market of traditions	Martor	vol.13, pages 15-26
Anca Giurchescu	2008	Symbolic communication: dancing for the living, dancing for the dead	Invisible and visible dance: Crossing identity boundaries: Proceedings: 23st Symposium of the ICTM Study Group on Ethnochoreology, Monghidoro, 2004	pages 64–69
Anca Giurchescu	2009	Este Călușul fără steag „Căluș adevărat”?	Căluşul, emblemă identitară	pages 60-85
Anca Giurchescu	2009	Căluşul în zona de tensiune întrecercetare şi salvgardare în 'Cum sa ajuns de la obiceiul Căluşului la tradiţia Căluşului şi la Capodopera Patrimoniului Cultural Imaterial UNESCO „Ritualul Căluşului”? '	Conferințele de la Șosea (March 2009)
Anca Giurchescu	2010	Intersectii si confluente. (Amintiri legate de György Martin)	Coregrafia și etnocoreologia maghiară din Transilvania în mileniul trei II	pages 11-32
Anca Giurchescu	2010	Preziti Rituâlu V Soucasinych Spolecenskych Kotextech. Căluş - Mezi Rituâlem A Nârodim Symbolem” [“Survival of a ritual in contemporary social contexts. Căluş - between ritual and national symbol”].	Nărodopisn Revue	vol.4, pages 244-259.
Anca Giurchescu, Margaret Beissinger, Victor Stoichiţa, Costin Moisil, Florin Iordan, Mirela Radu and Speranţa Rădulescu	2010	Maneaua: Istorie, alcatuire, rosturi, intelesuri	Conferinţele de la Şosea (25 martie 2010)
Anca Giurchescu	2011	Cetele de căluşari au capacitatea de a se dedubla şi de a performa cu aceeaşi convingere şi credinţă atât în context tradiţional cât şi scenic	Mozaicul (Revista de Cultura Fondata la Craiova)	vol.14, no.Nr. 6, pages 4
Anca Giurchescu and Speranta Radulescu	2011	Music, Dance, and behaviour in a New Form of Expressive Culture: The Romanian Manea	Yearbook for Traditional Music Vol 43	pages 1-36
Anca Giurchescu and Speranta Radulescu	2011	Music and dance of Pan-Balkan (and Mediterrean) fusion : The case of the Romanian manea	Proceedings of the Second Symposium of the ICTM Study Group on Music and Dance in Southeastern Europe	pages 42-52
Anca Giurchescu	2012	The field as a ‘culture text’ or ‘textulising’ the field reality (Panel introduction)	From field to text and dance and space: Proceedings of the 24th symposium of the ICTM study group on ethnochoreology, Cluj, 2006	pages 151–152
Anca Giurchescu	2012	Hidrellez	From field to text and dance and space: Proceedings of the 24th symposium of the ICTM study group on ethnochoreology, Cluj, 2006	pages 157–160
Anca Giurchescu	2012	A disputed issue: contemporizing (safeguarding) the ritual căluș (Romania)	Dance, Gender and Meanings: Contemporizing Traditional Dance: Proceedings of the 26th Symposium of the ICTM Study group on Ethnochoreology, Třešť, 2010	pages 105–116
Anca Giurchescu, Mehmet Ocal Ozbiligin, Fahriye Dincar and Jaynie Rabb Aydon	2012	Panel - Representations of different realities experienced in the fieldwork carried out in the region of Izmir, Turkey -	From field to text and dance and space : Proceedings of the 24th symposium of the ICTM study group on ethnochoreology
Anca Giurchescu	2014	Contextual determination of improvisation: A case study of Vlach chain dances of Northeastern Serbia	Abstract submitted to the fourth symposium of the ICTM study group for music and dance in Southeastern Europe
Anca Giurchescu	2014	Placing the dance in space: norms of the past and present	Dance, Place, Festival: 27th Symposium of the ICTM Study Group on Ethnochoreology, Limerick, 2012	pages 67–73
Anca Giurchescu	2014	A short history of the ICTM Study Group on Ethnochoreology	Dance, Place, Festival: 27th Symposium of the ICTM Study Group on Ethnochoreology, Limerick, 2012	pages 297–306
Anca Giurchescu	2014	Experiencing the Field: Fieldwork Research Theory, Methods and Experience	(Re)Searching the Field: Festschrift in Honour of Egil Bakka	pages 213-226
Anca Giurchescu	2015	Field research in Svinica/Svinița, a community bridging both shores of the Danube : Comments across four decades	Dance, field research and intercultural perspectives : The Easter customs in the village of Sviniţa	pages 23-46
Anca Giurchescu	2015	Crossroads and meetings : Prelude György Martin	Acta Ethnographica Hungarica	vol.60, no.1, pages 105-110
Margaret H. Beissinger, Speranța Rădulescu and Anca Giurchescu	2016	Manele in Romania : cultural expression and social meaning in Balkan popular music	Europea
Anca Giurchescu	2016	Enacting tradition: The ora - Event marker of ethnic and cultural identity of the Vlachs settled in Denmark	Von Hora, Doina und Lautaren: Einblicke in die rumänische Musik und Musikwissenschaft	pages 155-165
Anca Giurchescu and Speranța Rădulescu	2016	Music, dance, performance: A descriptive analysis of manele	Manele in Romania : cultural expression and social meaning in Balkan popular music	vol.21, no.Europea, pages 1-44
Anca Giurchescu	Unpublished ;1979	Dansul în ținutul Pădurenilor
Anca Giurchescu	Unpublished <1976	Folclor coregrafic din județul Dâmbovița
Anca Giurchescu	Unpublished >1979	Călușei în Câmpul Pâinii
Anca Giurchescu	Unpublished > 1979	Hora vlahilor. Rolul tradiției în procesul de adoptare a vlahilor stabiliți în Danemarca