Mândrie si beton / Pride and concrete, Photo Album by Petrut Cãlinescu and Ioana Hodoiu. Bucharest: Igloo Media, 2013
Journal Title: Martor. The Museum of the Romanian Peasant Anthropology Review - Year 2014, Vol 19, Issue 19
Abstract
The outcome of a collaboration between photographer Petruţ Călinescu and anthropologist Ioana Hodoiu, it ofers a rare insight into the fast changing realities of villages in Maramureş, repudiating the common notion of village communities here and elsewhere as rural backwaters that have missed the train of globalisation.
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Ger Duijzings
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