Ethnic Alterity And Collective Imaginary
excerptConclusions and final ideasStereotypes, as they are described in the first researches in this field, tend to be quite long-lasting, yet they do show changes. Images of the other are less enduring than images of self. In 1992, Romanians had a negative self-image on
The Ethnogenesis Of The Dobrujan Turks
The definition of the genesis, as well as the delimitation of the area where the Turkish people was formed, and from where they spread from Central Asia to the Mediterranean Sea, is still a controversial issue among specialists. Discussions between Turkology scholars usually
The Gypsies
Nowadays, the Romanians' principal obsession is the Gypsies, who make the Romanians feel as if they were living in a castle under siege. Almost all crimes are attributed to Gypsies, whose population seems to be rising every day. Although the figure given by the 1992
Masha And The Alien
excerpt 'I can hardly understand what you're saying, your words make my hair stand on end. . . What do you want, actually?' Masha could hardly contain herself. This talk raised her suspicions. The visitor's look could very well be deceitful. Whoever
Sarichioi - A 19th Century Enigma
excerpts The village of Sarichioi is situated in southeastern Romania, in the region of Dobruja. In Turkish, Sarichioi means 'yellow' or 'sunny' village (sary – 'yellow, sunny' and köj – 'village'), but in spite of its Turkish
The Jews
In the nineteenth century, and also in the inner-war period, Romania had one of Europe's largest Jewish communities. Between the wars, its Jewish population was the third largest in Europe both in absolute terms (after Poland and the USSR) and as a proportion of the
My Rosenau In The Carpathians
I have always wondered why so many of those who happen to be born within the Carpathian arch, in Transylvania, have a sense of coming from a unique, privileged area, why they keep an enduring and unquestioned commitment to it whatever may happen in their lives, whether they
Esquisse D’une Méthode De Folklore Musical
On peut consideerer comme particulierrement caractéristique pour le reepertoire populaire roumain sa division en genres nettement deefinis, de style et d'usage diffeerents et dont l'exeecution est elle-même seeverrement reegleee par l'usage. La plupart de
Le Moi Et Le Monde
CHAPITRE XIICONCLUSION 1. Chrisis, l'héroïne du roman Aphrodite de Pierre Louys, est condamnée à mort. Bientôt elle va boire la ciguë; en attendant, elle pense aux apparences que son corps prendra désormais. Elle tâte son visage et sent les os qui, sous peu,
L’idée De Révolution Dans Les Doctrines Socialistes
PREHISTOIRE DE L'IDEE DE REVOLUTION: L'IDEE DE PROGRES ET L'IDEE DE DROIT NATURELL'idée de révolution n'est pas, comme on serait tenté de croire, contemporaine des commencements d'élaboration des systèmes communistes. C'est au contraire
L’Europe Agricole Devant La Société Des Nations
Le déséquilibre économique produit par la guerre mondiale a préoccupé la S. d. N. dès le début de son fonctionnement et, au moins de septembre 1925, suivant la proposition de M. Loucheur, l'Assemblée a décidé de convoquer une conférence économique internationale
Nationally-Specific Art In Interwar Romania
Art history is usually at ease when imposing its own concepts and technical terminology upon an apparently unconscious body of visual accomplishments called works of art. For art historians and art critics, art seemingly exists in order for theorists to put words on it and