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Chronic isolation : experiencing a cured disease at the leprosarium of Tichilești
(National Museum of the Romanian Peasant, 2015) Mihail, Andrei
The inhabitants of the Tichilești leprosarium experienced medical isolation caused by a medically cured body; once an individual was diagnosed with leprosy, he would be conined for his whole life inside this institution. hus, former leprosy suferers had to cope with the medicalization of their daily life while making sense of a socially incurable illness that disrupted their regular life-trajectories.
Introduction : a place for Hay : flexibility and continuity in Hay-Meadow management
(National Museum of the Romanian Peasant, 2016) Iuga, Anamaria; Iancu, Bogdan; Stroe, Monica
Aware that in interpreting landscape, researches should be oriented both towards the present, but also towards the remains of the past in the landscape, be they natural or cultural, Tim Ingold has suggested the use of a “dwelling perspective”, which stresses that “the landscape is constituted as an enduring record of–and testimony to–the lives and works of past generations who have dwelt within it, and in so doing, have left there something of themselves”(1993: 152). The present and past connection is even more obvious since, as established by historical ecologists such as Urban Emanuelsson (2009), human society has been actively contributing for centuries to the creation and shaping of the landscape, which, in turn, had a direct influence on the people and their ways of perceiving space. The “dwelling perspective” is therefore concerned with researching the immediate involvement in the landscape (Ingold 1993: 152), the everyday life, as a starting point. Daily activities have a direct influence on the landscape, as humans have used local resources, have modified and controlled space in order to provide food. The “dwelling perspective” allows the researcher to see the landscape not only in its physicality, but its temporality as well, which can be traced in the tasks associated with the landscape. The “taskscape”, as defined by Tim Ingold in his seminal work, is a “pattern of activities” that can be traced into an array of features found in the landscape, including what we can hear (Ingold 1993: 162). As a result, human beings are seen as active agents and producers of change in a territory, by means of their activity and interactivity.
From peasant workers to amenity migrants : socialist heritage and the future of mountain rurality in Romania
(Association pour la diffusion de la recherche alpine, UGA Éditions/Université Grenoble Alpes, 2017) Membretti, Andrea; Iancu, Bogdan
This article investigates the legacy of state socialism and the post-socialist transformation inside the Romanian Carpathians by reviewing sociological literature on new inhabitants of the Alps and anthropological literature on ruralism in Romania. Today, after a period spent adapting to socialist agricultural and industrial policies, several rural communities of the Carpathians are facing growing waves of amenity migrants and urban tourists. In 2015, in order to investigate the potential role of these dynamics relative to the resilience of mountain dwellers, we collected qualitative data by means of in-depth ethnographic interviews with Romanian academics, tourist entrepreneurs, residents of and immigrants to the mountain village of Fundata in Transylvania. We recognise amenity migration and rural tourism as important but also ambivalent and as driving change with respect to the interrelated socio-demographic local change. Whereas the Carpathians have been losing population dramatically since the 1990s, and the remaining population has aged, rural tourism has brought new permanent and temporary inhabitants (often young people) and significant economic resources. Together with accommodation infrastructure, tourism has transformed several mountain villages’ physical and cultural landscape. As cultural brokers and economic resource bearers, amenity migrants and tourists represent both a threat to and an opportunity for post-socialist territories, which are facing long-term socio-economic and demographic crises. As we will discuss in the conclusions of the paper, also with regard to ongoing transformations in the Alpine regions, it seems clear that one cannot ignore the relevance of these urban actors (nor of the renewed urban-rural connection) to the revitalisation of mountain areas.
Rural communities and traditional ecological knowledge
(Cambridge University Press, 2017) Iuga, Anamaria; Westin, Anna; Iancu, Bogdan; Stroe, Monica; Tunón, Håkan
Do you like where I brought you? : disenchantment and re-enchantment in Vintilă Mihăilescu’s anthropological teachings
(Expert Projects, 2020) Iancu, Bogdan; Stroe, Monica
"Always provoking, creating disruption, advocating for inclusiveness, questioning elite assumptions and often going against the grain of dominant intellectual voices, Vintilă’s pedagogical lessons remain a source of inspiration for those whom he has shaped as students and infl uenced as colleagues. The bulk of the students still come from a diversity of professional and educational backgrounds, ranging from the humanities to technical fi elds. What they seek are answers; what we still aim to provide, in keeping with Vintilă’s legacy, is the ability to ask the right questions and to think anthropologically, no matter the fi eld."
Ipostaze si etnografii ale carantinei in pandemie
(Pro Universitaria, 2022) Iancu, Bogdan; Stroe, Monica; Mihail, Andrei
The whole wave of restrictions and adaptations to what was to be called the new normality, inspired us (and even forced us), following the examples of Vintila Mihailescu, to propose to the master's students a collective research project to document the transformations brought by this new regime of everyday life. This volume brings together the early contributions of the students of the Anthropology (SNSPA and UB) and Visual Studies and Society (SNSPA) Masters programs to the research on the social effects of the pandemic in the early stages of the declaration of the state of emergency and in the months that followed.
‘Let us prepare for the Champions League!’ the symbolic Europeanization of Romania’s football bosses
(Routledge, part of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2023) Mihail, Andrei
The post-communist privatization of Romanian football clubs saw their transfer into the hands of the nouveau riches who emerged after 1989. Gradually, the public image of the local championship rapidly worsened, because of corruption scandals or match-fixing incidents in which the new owners involved it. Thus, the Champions League participation of Dinamo, Rapid, and Steaua Bucharest proved desirable for more than its economic benefits. The competition also offered football bosses an important symbolic capital, meant to highlight an improved image of “real” capitalist entrepreneurs. Accordingly, qualifying in the Champions League groups also meant the “Europeanization” of the club owners’ social status, through their association with a competition strongly appreciated in Romania, due to its perceived quality and correctness. The research behind this article is based on the analysis of the public discourses related to local club owners seeking participation in the Champions League groups during the past 30 years.

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