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Papers by Ileana Benga
Martor The Museum of the Romanian Peasant Anthropology Review, Nov 14, 2023
(teaching traditional rituals since 2013). She is co-founder, together with Bogdan Neagota of Orm... more (teaching traditional rituals since 2013). She is co-founder, together with Bogdan Neagota of Orma Sodalitas Anthropologica (based 2003, founded 2015) which shelters an important ethnological collective archive (begun in 1997 by Bogdan Neagota and Ileana Benga, enriched with many collaborations). Dr. Benga's fieldwork experience spans three decades and mirrors expertise in the narrative transmission of the patterns of thought, ceremonial and ritual expressions of oral tradition, ethnological taxonomies and cultural transmission in the short and long diachrony.
Martor. The Museum of the Romanian Peasant Anthropology Review
Emma Wilby’s research is shedding light on one of the most outstanding records of Europe’s witchc... more Emma Wilby’s research is shedding light on one of the most outstanding records of Europe’s witchcraft prosecutions, which are the Basque (1609-14), bringing to life both the local witch-craze, in a long trail of academic writing dominated by the momentous work of Gustav Henningsen, and the eventual perspective on co-authoring the testimonials during the confession-making process, a genuinely post-1990 orientation.
Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2015
As cultural anthropologists, we noticed an unexpected and interesting convergence of the therapeu... more As cultural anthropologists, we noticed an unexpected and interesting convergence of the therapeutic practices suggested in the target article and the rites of passage occurring across multiple societies, as individuals make the transition from one significant age or status to another.
Ethnologia Balkanica, 2011
The paper is reporting a pilot field research on the bonfires of St Demetrius, held in the eve of... more The paper is reporting a pilot field research on the bonfires of St Demetrius, held in the eve of the feast of the saint, which falls on October 26th, in a region of Romania where dead remembrance is, and used to be, very active on the occasion. The celebration of the dead comprises here a bonfire and sharing alms to those gathered around it, but is meant and directed by all means to the benefit of the aborted children, and by extension, of the miscarried and of those dead before christening. There are more components to the ceremonial, as enacted on the evening of October 25th, and the study tries to capture these dimensions too, specific to the calling over the village, which is the rural traditional Romanian variant for charivari; likewise are the fact that the group of youth are those organizing the bonfire, and provide it with fuel, that they utter a specific closed formula, which is not opening through a charivari-type shouted satire (indicating precise persons in the village), and that jumping over the fire is believed to be beneficial both for small children/youth/any attending participants, and for the missed-mothers, in purification. Layers of local ideologies, tradition-bound, were captured at a later date through interviewing, and provide us with precious information on both the experiential, personal-individual meaning, poured into the ceremonial, and on the bed of practices, beliefs and imaginary of the respective communities. As for the vector resulting from all these forces, we advocate, without overlooking the poetry of the custom, the charivari-type impetus, which might have, at some point and at some moment, attempted at exposing and condemning, through charivari mockery, the most serious of faults: which is, within the modal customary society, that of wasting new lives; to it, the response of women appears to us to have been, to turn in deed the charivari punctuation, that is, to invert public shame and exposure, into a matter of general responsibility inwards of the community: a fully-bodied dead remembrance ritual for the aborted children.
Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Jun 1, 2006
The ethnographic description of story-telling and narrative transmission of cultural facts is an ... more The ethnographic description of story-telling and narrative transmission of cultural facts is an aspect of Locke & Bogin's (L&B's) article that should be amplified. Innate shared gene patrimony is biased by the kinship structure of particular societies and interacts with the transmission of narratives. Trance experiences are another interesting aspect of verbal and agonistic “performances.”
Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Dec 1, 2006
Ritualized behavior, intuitively recognizable by its stereotypy, rigidity, repetition, and appare... more Ritualized behavior, intuitively recognizable by its stereotypy, rigidity, repetition, and apparent lack of rational motivation, is found in a variety of life conditions, customs, and everyday practices: in cultural rituals, whether religious or non-religious; in many children's complicated routines; in the pathology of obsessive-compulsive disorders (OCD); in normal adults around certain stages of the life-cycle, birthing in particular. Combining evidence from evolutionary anthropology, neuropsychology and neuroimaging, we propose an explanation of ritualized behavior in terms of an evolved Precaution System geared to the detection of and reaction to inferred threats to fitness. This system, distinct from fear-systems geared to respond to manifest danger, includes a repertoire of clues for potential danger as well as a repertoire of species-typical precautions. In OCD pathology, this system does not supply a negative feedback to the appraisal of potential threats, resulting in doubts about the proper performance of precautions, and repetition of action. Also, anxiety levels focus the attention on low-level gestural units of behavior rather than on the goal-related higher-level units normally used in parsing the action-flow. Normally automatized actions are submitted to cognitive control. This "swamps" working memory, an effect of which is a temporary relief from intrusions but also their long-term strengthening. Normal activation of this Precaution System explains intrusions and ritual behaviors in normal adults. Gradual calibration of the system occurs through childhood rituals. Cultural mimicry of this system's normal input makes cultural rituals attention-grabbing and compelling. A number of empirical predictions follow from this synthetic model.
Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2017
The integration of the folk affect concept of &am... more The integration of the folk affect concept of "contempt" into the analysis of the complex institution known generally as charivari is mutually beneficial for both ethno-anthropology (which may thus access inner causes for disputed social and collective behaviors) and evolutionary psychology (which may thus study the length of tradition together with the width of the institution spread, serving the same social functions).
Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2006
The ethnographic description of story-telling and narrative transmission of cultural facts is an ... more The ethnographic description of story-telling and narrative transmission of cultural facts is an aspect of Locke & Bogin's (L&B's) article that should be amplified. Innate shared gene patrimony is biased by the kinship structure of particular societies and interacts with the transmission of narratives. Trance experiences are another interesting aspect of verbal and agonistic “performances.”
The paper approaches the narrativ-ceremonial complex of Căluş, with a special attention to its th... more The paper approaches the narrativ-ceremonial complex of Căluş, with a special attention to its therapeutic function, from a double perspective: on the one hand, the mythical-fictional stratum, of narrative origin, underlying the whole ceremoniality of the custom in focus (tales of magic ailment – taking by the căluş (luatul din căluş) and tales of therapies – taking off the căluş (scosul din căluş) and, on the other hand, the multi-functional ceremoniality of the group of căluşari (therapeutical, apotropaic, augural etc.), with its whole magical-ritual casuistry.
Anuarul Institutului De Etnografie Si Folclor Constantin Brăiloiu, 2006
Narratives of oral tradition follow a mostly different path of transmission regarding the ceremon... more Narratives of oral tradition follow a mostly different path of transmission regarding the ceremonials. Field-research emphasizes the complexity of both cases, while supplying clues to understand snare-type connections between different categories of orally transmitted folkloric facts.
The Behavioral and brain sciences, 2017
The integration of the folk affect concept of "contempt" into the analysis of the compl... more The integration of the folk affect concept of "contempt" into the analysis of the complex institution known generally as charivari is mutually beneficial for both ethno-anthropology (which may thus access inner causes for disputed social and collective behaviors) and evolutionary psychology (which may thus study the length of tradition together with the width of the institution spread, serving the same social functions).
Behavioral and Brain Sciences, no 29 (2006), p. 280, Cambridge University Press
The ethnographic description of story-telling and narrative transmission of cultural facts is an ... more The ethnographic description of story-telling and narrative transmission of cultural facts is an aspect of Locke & Bogin's (L&B's) article that should be amplified. Innate shared gene patrimony is biased by the kinship structure of particular societies and interacts with the transmission of narratives. Trance experiences are another interesting aspect of verbal and agonistic “performances.”
Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2006
... OFC activation makes sense given its role in the selection, control, and inhibition of behavi... more ... OFC activation makes sense given its role in the selection, control, and inhibition of behavior as demon ... The action-flow is parsed in smaller units than is usually the case. ... pected from their prevalence (Bradshaw & Sheppard 2000) and is tentatively confirmed by gene-loci studies ...
The Behavioral and brain sciences, 2015
As cultural anthropologists, we noticed an unexpected and interesting convergence of the therapeu... more As cultural anthropologists, we noticed an unexpected and interesting convergence of the therapeutic practices suggested in the target article and the rites of passage occurring across multiple societies, as individuals make the transition from one significant age or status to another.
Gordana Blagojević (ed), The Feast of Saint George: Different Cultural Contexts and Traditions, 2018
The paper tackles the narrative motifs encompassing fertility disputes and encounters, as found i... more The paper tackles the narrative motifs encompassing fertility disputes and encounters, as found in the Romanian folklore.1 Priority is given to the allotment of the Romanian fertility battles in the scientific work of C. Ginzburg and M. Eliade, while also mentioning the author’s own taxonomic units categorizing mana magic thefts. The discussion is supported with examples from both published materials and contemporary field researches resulted from collaborating with B. Neagota in the Orma team (in regions Zarand, Roșia Montană, and in the ceremonial areas in focus, from 2004 to 2018). Theoretical elaborations on the stake of these fertility battles, together with modelling the intertwined relationship between narrative and ceremonial, while expressing tradition, are also being provided in the paper, calling on author’s prior research on the matter.
Nașterea documenului de folk-lore. Răspântii metodologice (coord. Ileana Benga)
Ethnology and Taxonomy: When There’s a Will, There’s a Way (Abstract) The paper endeavors to dis... more Ethnology and Taxonomy: When There’s a Will, There’s a Way (Abstract)
The paper endeavors to discuss the validity of a number of taxonomies imported from sciences (chemistry,
biology, genetics) to the ethnological material at hand to an anthropologist working by the beginning of the 21st century. The necessity of such borrowings is grounded in the field and archival experience of the author, where complicated problems arise, if the taxa considered ignore the genesis of the absolute hapax which any document is, individually considered, and the cladistic arrangement of documents throughout their contextual documentations, genetically interlinked as they are. Therefore, two models are being fostered, complementary, not competing, in the goal of circumscribing at better a pace any process of ethnographic description (which is always momentary and strictly confined to its temporality and general context of generation): a genetic-inheritance of cultural traits model, and a section through the process momentarily considered model, both of which are being analyzed with pros and cons. The paper offers also an outline of some of the most important scientific advancements in the fields cited, which sustain the two models of ethnological applicability, as well as a number of local reactions to the wider academic and scientific debate, with more or less lasting effects in the nowadays ethnological and anthropological paradigms.
The paper is an introduction in the complexities of the Rudar issues, which continue to be debate... more The paper is an introduction in the complexities of the Rudar issues, which continue to be debated, after about a century of scientific work, in thematic clusters, such as: historiography, linguistics, ethnicity, economy, and, intermingled with those, religion. Departing from field researches on the Healing Gurban, firmly a Rudar trademark, our team endevours to approach by means of cultural archaeology their own emic cluster-categories, render them visible within excerpts of field material, and comprehensible for the idiom of the scientific oicumene.
Il canto di Orfeo. Poesia – Rito – Magia. Atti del XVII convegno internazionale (Rocca Grimalda, 22-23 settembre 2012), pp. 99-129., Dec 2015
11 canto di Orfeo I l volume propone uno scandaglio dei rapporti che, sin dall'antichità più remo... more 11 canto di Orfeo I l volume propone uno scandaglio dei rapporti che, sin dall'antichità più remota, sono sempre intercorsi fra antropologia e poesia, con particolare riferimento alle dinami che dell'oralità, agli strati profondi del magico, alla sacralità della parola, alla dimen sione dell'onirico, della trance e della profezia. Un percorso che parte idealmente da Orfeo, personaggio che meglio di ogni altro incarna la figura del poeta primitivo e il suo rapporto con il mondo dei morti, il poeta profeta e veggente, il poeta rabdoman te, il poeta-vate, il poeta sciamano che ferma il tempo e resuscita memorie moribonde.
Martor The Museum of the Romanian Peasant Anthropology Review, Nov 14, 2023
(teaching traditional rituals since 2013). She is co-founder, together with Bogdan Neagota of Orm... more (teaching traditional rituals since 2013). She is co-founder, together with Bogdan Neagota of Orma Sodalitas Anthropologica (based 2003, founded 2015) which shelters an important ethnological collective archive (begun in 1997 by Bogdan Neagota and Ileana Benga, enriched with many collaborations). Dr. Benga's fieldwork experience spans three decades and mirrors expertise in the narrative transmission of the patterns of thought, ceremonial and ritual expressions of oral tradition, ethnological taxonomies and cultural transmission in the short and long diachrony.
Martor. The Museum of the Romanian Peasant Anthropology Review
Emma Wilby’s research is shedding light on one of the most outstanding records of Europe’s witchc... more Emma Wilby’s research is shedding light on one of the most outstanding records of Europe’s witchcraft prosecutions, which are the Basque (1609-14), bringing to life both the local witch-craze, in a long trail of academic writing dominated by the momentous work of Gustav Henningsen, and the eventual perspective on co-authoring the testimonials during the confession-making process, a genuinely post-1990 orientation.
Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2015
As cultural anthropologists, we noticed an unexpected and interesting convergence of the therapeu... more As cultural anthropologists, we noticed an unexpected and interesting convergence of the therapeutic practices suggested in the target article and the rites of passage occurring across multiple societies, as individuals make the transition from one significant age or status to another.
Ethnologia Balkanica, 2011
The paper is reporting a pilot field research on the bonfires of St Demetrius, held in the eve of... more The paper is reporting a pilot field research on the bonfires of St Demetrius, held in the eve of the feast of the saint, which falls on October 26th, in a region of Romania where dead remembrance is, and used to be, very active on the occasion. The celebration of the dead comprises here a bonfire and sharing alms to those gathered around it, but is meant and directed by all means to the benefit of the aborted children, and by extension, of the miscarried and of those dead before christening. There are more components to the ceremonial, as enacted on the evening of October 25th, and the study tries to capture these dimensions too, specific to the calling over the village, which is the rural traditional Romanian variant for charivari; likewise are the fact that the group of youth are those organizing the bonfire, and provide it with fuel, that they utter a specific closed formula, which is not opening through a charivari-type shouted satire (indicating precise persons in the village), and that jumping over the fire is believed to be beneficial both for small children/youth/any attending participants, and for the missed-mothers, in purification. Layers of local ideologies, tradition-bound, were captured at a later date through interviewing, and provide us with precious information on both the experiential, personal-individual meaning, poured into the ceremonial, and on the bed of practices, beliefs and imaginary of the respective communities. As for the vector resulting from all these forces, we advocate, without overlooking the poetry of the custom, the charivari-type impetus, which might have, at some point and at some moment, attempted at exposing and condemning, through charivari mockery, the most serious of faults: which is, within the modal customary society, that of wasting new lives; to it, the response of women appears to us to have been, to turn in deed the charivari punctuation, that is, to invert public shame and exposure, into a matter of general responsibility inwards of the community: a fully-bodied dead remembrance ritual for the aborted children.
Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Jun 1, 2006
The ethnographic description of story-telling and narrative transmission of cultural facts is an ... more The ethnographic description of story-telling and narrative transmission of cultural facts is an aspect of Locke & Bogin's (L&B's) article that should be amplified. Innate shared gene patrimony is biased by the kinship structure of particular societies and interacts with the transmission of narratives. Trance experiences are another interesting aspect of verbal and agonistic “performances.”
Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Dec 1, 2006
Ritualized behavior, intuitively recognizable by its stereotypy, rigidity, repetition, and appare... more Ritualized behavior, intuitively recognizable by its stereotypy, rigidity, repetition, and apparent lack of rational motivation, is found in a variety of life conditions, customs, and everyday practices: in cultural rituals, whether religious or non-religious; in many children's complicated routines; in the pathology of obsessive-compulsive disorders (OCD); in normal adults around certain stages of the life-cycle, birthing in particular. Combining evidence from evolutionary anthropology, neuropsychology and neuroimaging, we propose an explanation of ritualized behavior in terms of an evolved Precaution System geared to the detection of and reaction to inferred threats to fitness. This system, distinct from fear-systems geared to respond to manifest danger, includes a repertoire of clues for potential danger as well as a repertoire of species-typical precautions. In OCD pathology, this system does not supply a negative feedback to the appraisal of potential threats, resulting in doubts about the proper performance of precautions, and repetition of action. Also, anxiety levels focus the attention on low-level gestural units of behavior rather than on the goal-related higher-level units normally used in parsing the action-flow. Normally automatized actions are submitted to cognitive control. This "swamps" working memory, an effect of which is a temporary relief from intrusions but also their long-term strengthening. Normal activation of this Precaution System explains intrusions and ritual behaviors in normal adults. Gradual calibration of the system occurs through childhood rituals. Cultural mimicry of this system's normal input makes cultural rituals attention-grabbing and compelling. A number of empirical predictions follow from this synthetic model.
Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2017
The integration of the folk affect concept of &am... more The integration of the folk affect concept of "contempt" into the analysis of the complex institution known generally as charivari is mutually beneficial for both ethno-anthropology (which may thus access inner causes for disputed social and collective behaviors) and evolutionary psychology (which may thus study the length of tradition together with the width of the institution spread, serving the same social functions).
Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2006
The ethnographic description of story-telling and narrative transmission of cultural facts is an ... more The ethnographic description of story-telling and narrative transmission of cultural facts is an aspect of Locke & Bogin's (L&B's) article that should be amplified. Innate shared gene patrimony is biased by the kinship structure of particular societies and interacts with the transmission of narratives. Trance experiences are another interesting aspect of verbal and agonistic “performances.”
The paper approaches the narrativ-ceremonial complex of Căluş, with a special attention to its th... more The paper approaches the narrativ-ceremonial complex of Căluş, with a special attention to its therapeutic function, from a double perspective: on the one hand, the mythical-fictional stratum, of narrative origin, underlying the whole ceremoniality of the custom in focus (tales of magic ailment – taking by the căluş (luatul din căluş) and tales of therapies – taking off the căluş (scosul din căluş) and, on the other hand, the multi-functional ceremoniality of the group of căluşari (therapeutical, apotropaic, augural etc.), with its whole magical-ritual casuistry.
Anuarul Institutului De Etnografie Si Folclor Constantin Brăiloiu, 2006
Narratives of oral tradition follow a mostly different path of transmission regarding the ceremon... more Narratives of oral tradition follow a mostly different path of transmission regarding the ceremonials. Field-research emphasizes the complexity of both cases, while supplying clues to understand snare-type connections between different categories of orally transmitted folkloric facts.
The Behavioral and brain sciences, 2017
The integration of the folk affect concept of "contempt" into the analysis of the compl... more The integration of the folk affect concept of "contempt" into the analysis of the complex institution known generally as charivari is mutually beneficial for both ethno-anthropology (which may thus access inner causes for disputed social and collective behaviors) and evolutionary psychology (which may thus study the length of tradition together with the width of the institution spread, serving the same social functions).
Behavioral and Brain Sciences, no 29 (2006), p. 280, Cambridge University Press
The ethnographic description of story-telling and narrative transmission of cultural facts is an ... more The ethnographic description of story-telling and narrative transmission of cultural facts is an aspect of Locke & Bogin's (L&B's) article that should be amplified. Innate shared gene patrimony is biased by the kinship structure of particular societies and interacts with the transmission of narratives. Trance experiences are another interesting aspect of verbal and agonistic “performances.”
Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2006
... OFC activation makes sense given its role in the selection, control, and inhibition of behavi... more ... OFC activation makes sense given its role in the selection, control, and inhibition of behavior as demon ... The action-flow is parsed in smaller units than is usually the case. ... pected from their prevalence (Bradshaw & Sheppard 2000) and is tentatively confirmed by gene-loci studies ...
The Behavioral and brain sciences, 2015
As cultural anthropologists, we noticed an unexpected and interesting convergence of the therapeu... more As cultural anthropologists, we noticed an unexpected and interesting convergence of the therapeutic practices suggested in the target article and the rites of passage occurring across multiple societies, as individuals make the transition from one significant age or status to another.
Gordana Blagojević (ed), The Feast of Saint George: Different Cultural Contexts and Traditions, 2018
The paper tackles the narrative motifs encompassing fertility disputes and encounters, as found i... more The paper tackles the narrative motifs encompassing fertility disputes and encounters, as found in the Romanian folklore.1 Priority is given to the allotment of the Romanian fertility battles in the scientific work of C. Ginzburg and M. Eliade, while also mentioning the author’s own taxonomic units categorizing mana magic thefts. The discussion is supported with examples from both published materials and contemporary field researches resulted from collaborating with B. Neagota in the Orma team (in regions Zarand, Roșia Montană, and in the ceremonial areas in focus, from 2004 to 2018). Theoretical elaborations on the stake of these fertility battles, together with modelling the intertwined relationship between narrative and ceremonial, while expressing tradition, are also being provided in the paper, calling on author’s prior research on the matter.
Nașterea documenului de folk-lore. Răspântii metodologice (coord. Ileana Benga)
Ethnology and Taxonomy: When There’s a Will, There’s a Way (Abstract) The paper endeavors to dis... more Ethnology and Taxonomy: When There’s a Will, There’s a Way (Abstract)
The paper endeavors to discuss the validity of a number of taxonomies imported from sciences (chemistry,
biology, genetics) to the ethnological material at hand to an anthropologist working by the beginning of the 21st century. The necessity of such borrowings is grounded in the field and archival experience of the author, where complicated problems arise, if the taxa considered ignore the genesis of the absolute hapax which any document is, individually considered, and the cladistic arrangement of documents throughout their contextual documentations, genetically interlinked as they are. Therefore, two models are being fostered, complementary, not competing, in the goal of circumscribing at better a pace any process of ethnographic description (which is always momentary and strictly confined to its temporality and general context of generation): a genetic-inheritance of cultural traits model, and a section through the process momentarily considered model, both of which are being analyzed with pros and cons. The paper offers also an outline of some of the most important scientific advancements in the fields cited, which sustain the two models of ethnological applicability, as well as a number of local reactions to the wider academic and scientific debate, with more or less lasting effects in the nowadays ethnological and anthropological paradigms.
The paper is an introduction in the complexities of the Rudar issues, which continue to be debate... more The paper is an introduction in the complexities of the Rudar issues, which continue to be debated, after about a century of scientific work, in thematic clusters, such as: historiography, linguistics, ethnicity, economy, and, intermingled with those, religion. Departing from field researches on the Healing Gurban, firmly a Rudar trademark, our team endevours to approach by means of cultural archaeology their own emic cluster-categories, render them visible within excerpts of field material, and comprehensible for the idiom of the scientific oicumene.
Il canto di Orfeo. Poesia – Rito – Magia. Atti del XVII convegno internazionale (Rocca Grimalda, 22-23 settembre 2012), pp. 99-129., Dec 2015
11 canto di Orfeo I l volume propone uno scandaglio dei rapporti che, sin dall'antichità più remo... more 11 canto di Orfeo I l volume propone uno scandaglio dei rapporti che, sin dall'antichità più remota, sono sempre intercorsi fra antropologia e poesia, con particolare riferimento alle dinami che dell'oralità, agli strati profondi del magico, alla sacralità della parola, alla dimen sione dell'onirico, della trance e della profezia. Un percorso che parte idealmente da Orfeo, personaggio che meglio di ogni altro incarna la figura del poeta primitivo e il suo rapporto con il mondo dei morti, il poeta profeta e veggente, il poeta rabdoman te, il poeta-vate, il poeta sciamano che ferma il tempo e resuscita memorie moribonde.
The Tales of Roşia Montană. Tome I
Vagari in silvis. The quest of ethnology
The Folkloric Tradition and its Oral Transmission
Paganalia. Aspects of the Popular Festive Calendar
![Research paper thumbnail of Simion Florea Marian, Legendele Maicii Domnului. Studiu folcloristic [2004, 1904]](https://attachments.academia-assets.com/67973974/thumbnails/1.jpg)
](Editura Ecco, Cluj-Napoca, 2004 [1904]
Ediție îngrijită de Ileana Benga și Bogdan Neagota. Studiu introductiv (Motive mitico-religioase ... more Ediție îngrijită de Ileana Benga și Bogdan Neagota.
Studiu introductiv (Motive mitico-religioase mariane) de Bogdan Neagota.
Postfață: Cele două mame din „Peregrinatio Virginis” românească, cunoscută sub numele de „Căutarea Maicii Domnului”, de Rosa del Conte (traducere de Vasile Rus)
Nașterea documenului de folk-lore. Răspântii metodologice (coord. Ileana Benga), Dec 2015
Lucrările din cuprinsul acestui volum sunt, în marea lor parte, contribuţii la panelul cu titlul... more Lucrările din cuprinsul acestui volum sunt, în marea lor parte, contribuţii la panelul cu titlul Naşterea documentului de folk-lore. Producere şi arhivizare la răscrucea metodologiilor interdisciplinare: ce au de spus etno-antropologia şi istoria orală, organizat de mine în cadrul conferinţei Institutului nostru “Arhiva de Folclor a Academiei Române” în 15 mai 2015, cu ocazia Zilelor Academice Clujene din acest an. Colegi de breaslă şi de generaţie au răspuns atunci chemării de a rediscuta problemele acute sau (dia)cronice ale metodologiilor noastre de cercetare. Lor li s-au adăugat, în urma apelului pentru a strânge într-un volum aceste contribuţii, şi alţi colegi de generaţie, precum şi, lucru de mare importanţă pentru asumarea efortului nostru de grup, cercetătorii consacraţi cu o mult mai îndelungă activitate, creatori de şcoală etnologică, Ion Taloş şi Ioan Augustin Goia.
The Legends of the Holy Virgin. A Folklore Study
Popular Religiosity between Anthropology and History of Religions. Papers of the Symposium. Roman... more Popular Religiosity between Anthropology and History of Religions. Papers of the Symposium. Romanian Academy in Rome, June 15-17, 2000
Acest grupaj de texte propune o reflecţie pe mai multe voci asupra statutului şi direcţiilor de ... more Acest grupaj de texte propune o reflecţie pe mai multe voci asupra statutului şi direcţiilor de dezvoltare ale etnologiei în anul 2015.
