Alexandra Urdea, From Storeroom to Stage: Romanian Attire and the Politics of Folklore, New York and Oxford: Berghahn Publishers, 2018, 210 p.
Journal Title: Martor. The Museum of the Romanian Peasant Anthropology Review - Year 2019, Vol 24, Issue
Abstract
Alexandra Urdea’s book describes the convoluted journey of an anthropologist and a host of rapidly changing objects (and contexts), between the storages and displays of the Horniman Museum and Romanian villages, museums, craft shops, and TV studios. It is not only a complex research and interpretation of objects of ethnography—always already re¬moved, even on their way back to origins—but also a disciplinary journey, a translation between two different ethnographies-an¬thropologies: imperial and national.
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