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This volume explores a selection of significant and topical elements from the vast amount of Romanian folkloric and mythological material. It sheds light on the mythical-ritualistic aspects of three complex calendar holydays (specifically The Lads of Brașov, Călușarii, and Sânzienele), whose ritualistic sequences, laden with mythical-symbolical reminiscences, were lost during the Communist period and are known today thanks to their spectacular features. Such aspects include demonic mythical beings (such as Iele, Rusalii, Știma Apei, The Woodwoman, and Strigoi) that define the collective imaginary; significant myths that have found their artistic expression in fairytales and legends; and the role of women in traditional Romanian society.
Folklore --- Mythology, Romanian. --- History.
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À la croisée des mondes romans et slaves, la Roumanie est l'extraordinaire conservatoire d'un imaginaire ancestral que reflètent mythes, légendes et rituels. Malgré la christianisation des faits et des personnages souvent transformés en saints, le substrat préchrétien affleure en permanence. En s'appuyant sur un vaste corpus de textes, Ion Taloș nous donne ici un aperçu de la richesse de ces témoignages peu connus en Europe occidentale. Grâce à lui, nous découvrons les structures mentales d'un monde essentiellement rural où tout est objet d'interrogations et d'explications, depuis l'origine de la Création jusqu'à celle des animaux, des plantes ou des intempéries. D'étonnants parallèles avec la littérature médiévale romane permettent de mieux saisir l'évolution des anciens mythes et des croyances d'autrefois, et c'est là une des grandes richesses de ce livre.
Mythology, Romanian --- Légendes --- Folklore --- Romanian mythology --- Folk beliefs --- Folk-lore --- Traditions --- Ethnology --- Manners and customs --- Material culture --- Mythology --- Oral tradition --- Storytelling --- imaginaire --- Roumanie --- littérature --- mythologie
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This book presents rich information on Romanian mythology and folklore, previously under-explored in Western scholarship, placing the source material within its historical context and drawing comparisons with European and Indo-European culture and mythological tradition. The author presents a detailed comparative study and argues that Romanian mythical motifs have roots in Indo-European heritage, by analyzing and comparing mythical motifs from the archaic cultures, Greek, Latin, Celtic, Sanskrit, and Persian, with written material and folkloric data that reflects the Indo-European culture. The book begins by outlining the history of the Getae-Dacians, beginning with Herodotus' description of their customs and beliefs in the supreme god Zamolxis, then moves to the Roman wars and the Romanization process, before turning to recent debates in linguistics and genetics regarding the provenance of a shared language, religion, and culture in Europe. The author then analyzes myth creation, its relation to rites, and its functions in society, before examining specific examples of motifs and themes from Romanian folk tales and songs. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of folklore studies, comparative mythology, linguistic anthropology, and European culture. Ana R. Chelariu is an independent researcher and retired former library director from New Jersey, USA. She has published several books and a number of articles on the topic of comparative mythology, and presented papers at international conferences. .
Ethnology. Cultural anthropology --- Historical linguistics --- Comparative linguistics --- Sociolinguistics --- Linguistics --- Comparative literature --- Literature --- taalfamilies --- literatuur --- linguïstiek --- antropologie --- literatuurwetenschap --- Mythology, Indo --- Mythology, Romanian. --- European.
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Myth, Identity, and Conflict: A Comparative Analysis of Romanian and Serbian Textbooks, by Anamaria Dutceac Segesten, is an examination of how history and politics became entangled in Romania and Serbia. Segesten's findings confirm the presence of mythologized versions of the past in the history textbooks of both countries over the entire fifteen-year period studied (1992-2007), despite claims for professionalization of textbook-making.
Ethnic attitudes --- Group identity --- Mythology, Romanian. --- Mythology, Slavic --- Belarusian mythology --- Bulgarian mythology --- Czech mythology --- Mythology, Belarusian --- Mythology, Bulgarian --- Mythology, Czech --- Mythology, Polish --- Mythology, Russian --- Mythology, Slovak --- Mythology, Sorbian --- Mythology, Ukrainian --- Polish mythology --- Russian mythology --- Slavic mythology --- Slovak mythology --- Sorbian mythology --- Ukrainian mythology --- Romanian mythology --- Collective identity --- Community identity --- Cultural identity --- Social identity --- Identity (Psychology) --- Social psychology --- Collective memory --- Attitude (Psychology) --- Ethnic relations --- Minorities --- Cultural awareness --- Race awareness --- Romania --- Serbia --- N.R. Serbii︠a︡ --- Narodna Republika Srbija --- NR Serbii︠a︡ --- People's Republic of Serbia --- Republic of Serbia --- Republika Srbija --- RS de Serbije --- Serbii︠a︡ --- Servia --- Socialist Republic of Serbia --- Socijalistička Republika Srbija --- Sot︠s︡ialisticheskai︠a︡ Respublika Serbii︠a︡ --- SR Srbija --- Srbija --- SRS --- Szerbia --- Србија --- Serbia and Montenegro --- Government of Romania --- Lo-ma-ni-ya --- Luomaniya --- R.N.R. --- R.P.R. --- R.P. Romînă --- R.S.R. --- Republica Populară Romînă --- Republica Socialistă România --- Rhowmenia --- RNR --- Román Szocialista Köztársaság --- Romāniyā --- Romanyah --- Roumania --- Roumanie --- RP Romînă --- RPR --- RSR --- Rumania --- Rumänien --- Rumenyah --- Rumenye --- Rumunia --- Rumŭnii︠a︡ --- Rumunsko --- Rumynii︠a︡ --- Rumynskai︠a︡ Narodnai︠a︡ Respublika --- Румыния --- ルーマニア --- 羅馬尼亞 --- 루마니아 --- Moldavia --- Wallachia --- Historiography --- Political aspects. --- History --- Textbooks --- Royaume de Roumanie
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