Social Structure and Land Property in Romanian Villages (1919‐1989)
Journal Title: Martor. The Museum of the Romanian Peasant Anthropology Review - Year 2014, Vol 19, Issue 19
Abstract
The article compares two diferent cultural meanings of land property: the modern one, developed in Western societies in the context of modernization, and the traditional one, which still prevails to some extent in Romanian villages. I argue that in the traditional environment of Romanian villages, land was rather the collective property of groups (mostly or families), regarded less as merchandise to be sold or bought and more as a survival mean.
Authors and Affiliations
Cornel Micu
Keywords
Related Articles
- EP ID EP256782
- DOI -
- Views 98
- Downloads 0
Introduction. Inside and Outside the Archive: the Uses of Archives and Archival Practice
The idea for this issue of the Journal sprang from the feeling of unease that is already a recurrent feature of the relationship between individual and archive, a feeling complained of by researchers in Eastern Europe wo...
Tradition and Architectural Representation
Very often tradition has been reinvented in order to legitimize a certain ideology, discourse or political agenda and representation has played a crucial role in this process. Any representation is itself the product of...
In Brief
The local communities of Eastern Europe, regarded up to the beginning of the 1990s as a rich reserve of peasant culture, have over the past twenty years been falling apart before our very eyes. Under the pressure of migr...
Retrofuturism. A Revisited Concept for Religious Architecture
The text deals with the much debated question of renewal in contemporary Orthodox Christian architecture, a question that accompanied a wave of more than twenty years of building new churches in existing cities and villa...
The Medium of the Body: Photography and the Senses in the Psychic Laboratory
This essay discusses the experiments carried out between 1909-1913 by German psychologist and psychical researcher Albert von Schrenck-Notzing on the phenomena of materialization, involving the biological shapes and imag...