Prof. dr. habil. Antoaneta Olteanu (coordinator)
This volume comprises studies and presentations given at the conferences with the same name, organized in 2022 and 2023 by The Institute for Advanced Studies in Levant Culture and Civilization, as part of the project “The Cultural History of the Balkans”.
“Cetatea de Scaun” Publishing House, Târgoviște, 2024
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This volume is the result of the collective effort of a group which I brought together within the framework of a vast research project on the Balkans, initiated by The Institute for Advanced Studies in Levant Culture and Civilization (ISACCL). I insisted on the cultural history of the Balkans and tried to highlight the ethnological and anthropological aspects which the research has revealed, in accordance with my primary scientific interests. Thus, I commenced a series of lectures on Balkan themes, given by renowned specialists. Under aegis of the same institute, I also organized two conferences dedicated to this topic, bearing the name “Forgotten traditions in the Balkans”. The general theme aroused great interest not only from ethnologists and anthropologists, who I knew I could count on, but also from those who are interested in imagology, history, history of mentalities and even political science. Expectedly, a miscellaneous volume has subsequently come into existence. The Balkan realities are still of interest for many researchers open to debate – from old traditions, extremely well preserved, to social relations and temperamental national behaviors, which often make us talk about the spark from the powder keg that has never been extinguished.
Authors:
Antoaneta Olteanu, The Ever-surprising Balkans
Antoaneta Olteanu, For a Balkan Mythology
Traditions and customs in the Balkans:
Narcisa Știucă, The Practice of Multiculturality: a Few Theoretical Landmarks
Antoaneta Olteanu, The Călușari/Rusalți in the Bulgarian Customs
Alexandru Chiselev, „Küreș" among the Tatars of Dobruja. The Metamorphoses of an Emblematic Tradition and the Mechanisms of its Institutionalization
Ana-Maria Cuciureanu, Old Traditions, Reinterpreted in the Romanian Diaspora. Case Study: The Romanian Community in Greece
Otilia Hedeșan, Diana Mihuț, Revisiting an Interwar Territory: Ždrelo / Jdrela on Mlava Valley
Menuț Maximinian, Acculturation and interculturality between Transylvanian Saxons and Romanians in Bistrița Area
Ileana Mihăilă, The Lost Citadel of Dăișoara, Tales with Giants, Hajduks and Fairies
Ioana Dorobanțu-Gordon, The Ethnographic Documentary versus The Creative Documentary: A Short Introduction
Alexandru Chiselev, From the Ritualistic Cuisine of the Turks and Tatars of Dobruja: Ashure
Antoaneta Olteanu, Offerings and Sacrificial Meals among Bulgarians
Alexandru Chiselev, Aspects Regarding Ritualistic Sweet Hasty Puddings of the Peoples of Dobruja: „kukia", „kutia", “coliva”
Mentalities
Nicu Diaconiuc, Elements of Spiritual and Material Culture in Stanislas Bellanger’s Travelogues
Sabina Madgearu, A Mimetic Historiography of Re-visitation: The Balkans in the Late Medieval Western „Memoria"
Constantin Geambașu, Between “Bai Ganiu” and “Alexis Zorba". Aspects of the Balkan Mentality
Bertina Salliu, Alexander Thomson's Missionary Travels in the Balkans: Focus on Albanians
Gabriela Boangiu, The Westernization of the Balkans or Mais où sont les Balkans d'antan?
Armand Guță, From Belgrade to Constantinople. Notes from a Serbian Travel Diary
Florin F. Nacu In memoriam acad. Răzvan Theodorescu (1939-2023) – an Exegete of the Influence of the Balkan Civilization upon the Romanian Civilization
Ștefan Lucian Mureșanu, Rhetorical Meaning and Argumentative Style in Foreign Language Didactics, Without Affecting the National Character of the Mother Tongue
Political science
Cristian Chirca, Russia and the Slavic Reciprocity in the Balkans, from the Recommencement of the Great Eastern Crisis (1875) to the Outbreak of the Russo-Turkish War (1877)
Alexandra Nacu, Romania, Serbia and Bulgaria on the Path to Gaining National Independence (1875-1908)
Florian Olteanu, Inter-war Political Projects concerning the Settlement of Aromanians from Balkans in Romania
Alexandra Nacu, The Balkan Communists in Romania (1921-1944). Influence, Contacts and Political Evolution
Florian Olteanu, Yugoslavia in 1941 versus Iugoslavia in 1991. A Historical Diagnosis Proposal
Florin F. Nacu, The Path to a Communist Bloc in the Balkans (1944-1964)?
