The Relevance of Memory and the Role of the Witness. A Case Study
Journal Title: Martor. The Museum of the Romanian Peasant Anthropology Review - Year 2012, Vol 17, Issue 17
Abstract
This article attempts to recall, from the standpoint of the witness, the latter stages of Romanian communism, more precisely “agricultural training”, the generic term for the voluntary labour provided by thousands of pupils and students during the busiest period of the autumn agricultural season. It was not my intention to perform a socio-political analysis of this phenomenon itself, but rather to revisit the physical practices, the types of sociability, the type of food consumed, etc., while on “agricultural training”.
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