ABSTRACT
My article deals with two auctorial dimensions within the peasant craftsmanship of Romania, namely anonymity and paternity. While many of the folk artisans continue nowadays to argue on the „anonymous” (that is, traditional”, „ancestral”, „village-originated”, etc.) sources of their crafts, they happen to concomitantly be concerned with important issues related to their personal or familycentered professional identity (including family associations, individual trademarks and originality, etc.) In contemporary Romania, the anonymous and private values of artisans are not antithetic, but interdependent. They may be interpreted in terms of variable sets of arguments, claims, imageries, knowledge, „rights”, wisdom…, in accordance with the ethnographic variability itself, as well as in relation to the social, economic, and cultural processes of post-socialism