Download or read book Romanian Peasant Houses and Households written by Georgeta Stoica and published by Bucharest : Meridiane Publishing House. This book was released on 1984 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Romania written by Peter Siani-Davies and published by ABC-CLIO. This book was released on 1998 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Revolution of 1989 dramatically brought Romania to international prominence as an absorbed world watched the bloody aftermath of the overthrow of Nicolae Ceausescu live in television. These pictures of violence were soon joined by others, including those depicting the plight of children placed in state care, which brutally revealed the extent of the country's suffering under Communism.
Download or read book A Tale of Two Villages written by Alina Mungiu and published by Central European University Press. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dramatic story of land and power from twentieth-century Eastern Europe is set in two extraordinary villages: a rebel village, where peasants fought the advent of Communism and became its first martyrs, and a model village turned forcibly into a town, Dictator Ceauşescu’s birthplace. The two villages capture among themselves nearly a century of dramatic transformation and social engineering, ending up with their charged heritage in the present European Union. "One of Romania’s foremost social critics, Alina Mungiu-Pippidi offers a valuable look at several decades of policy that marginalized that country’s rural population, from the 1918 land reform to the post-1989 property restitution. Illustrating her arguments with a close comparison of two contrasting villages, she describes the actions of a long series of “predatory elites,” from feudal landowners through the Communist Party through post-communist leaders, all of whom maintained the rural population’s dependency. A forceful concluding chapter shows that its prospects for improvement are scarcely better within the EU. Romania’s villagers have an eminent and spirited advocate in the author.”
Download or read book Building a House in Rural Romania before and after 1989 written by Florica (Bohîlțea) Mihuț and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2019-07-19 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers anthropologists, historians, and sociologists a starting point for research on the diversity that characterizes the Romanian rural architectural landscape in the communist and post-communist eras. It is the first contextual analysis of the legal framework for constructing privately owned houses during the Ceausescu dictatorship, including the changes due to the 1977 earthquake. The research is also intended to provide the social, cultural, and historical premises for the analysis of dwelling construction after the fall of the communist regime. It is also a book about the social significance of the actions, from long-term planning to daily routines that transform a house into a home, that create hierarchies within the domestic group or the rural community.
Download or read book Highlights of Current Legislation and Activities in Mid Europe written by and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bibliographic Guide to Soviet and East European Studies written by and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Area Handbook for Romania written by William Giloane and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-10 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Area Handbook for Romania is a handbook displaying facts and figures about the country of Romania. Excerpt: "GOVERNMENT: Constitution of 1965 provides for a unicameral legislature and a collegial executive known as the Council of State. Romanian Communist Party controls elections and runs the government at all levels..."
Download or read book Pressures for Reform in the East European Economies written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Kosinski s Novel The Painted Bird in Thirteen Languages written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-09-19 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jerzy Kosinski’s viscerally haunting and politically disturbing The Painted Bird finally receives the long overdue fresh scientific perspective: a truly revealing study of linguistic and cultural controversy in translation into thirteen languages against the benchmark of the iron-clad methodology.
Download or read book The Tradition of Household Spirits written by Claude Lecouteux and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-07-21 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines how the ancient customs of constructing and keeping a house formed a sacred bond between homes and their inhabitants • Shares many tales of house spirits, from cajoling the local land spirit into becoming one’s house spirit to the good and bad luck bestowed by mischievous house elves • Explains the meaning behind door and window placement, house orientation, horsehead gables, the fireplace or hearth, and the threshold • Reveals the charms, chants, prayers, and building practices used by our ancestors to bestow happiness and prosperity upon their homes and their occupants Why do we hang horseshoes for good luck or place wreaths on our doors? Why does the groom carry his new bride over the threshold? These customs represent the last vestiges from a long, rich history of honoring the spirits of our homes. They show that a house is more than a building: it is a living being with a body and soul. Examining the extensive traditions surrounding houses from medieval times to the present, Claude Lecouteux reveals that, before we entered the current era of frequent moves and modular housing, moving largely from the countryside into cities, humanity had an extremely sacred relationship with their homes and all the spirits who lived there alongside them--from the spirit of the house itself to the mischievous elves, fairies, and imps who visited, invited or not. He shows how every aspect of constructing and keeping a house involved rites, ceremony, customs, and taboos to appease the spirits, including the choice of a building lot and the very materials with which it was built. Uncovering the lost meaning behind door and window placement, the hearth, and the threshold, Lecouteux shares many tales of house spirits, from the offerings used to cajole the local land spirit into becoming the domestic house spirit to the good and bad luck bestowed upon those who seek the help of the “Little Money Man.” He draws on studies and classic literature from old Europe--from Celtic lands and Scandinavia to France and Germany to the far eastern borders of Europe and into Russia--to explain the pagan roots behind many of these traditions. Revealing our ancestors’ charms, prayers, and practices to bestow happiness and prosperity upon their homes, Lecouteux shows that we can invite the spirits back into our houses, old or new, and restore the sacred bond between home and inhabitant.
Download or read book Transforming Peasants Property and Power written by Dorin Dobrincu and published by Central European University Press. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The result of a project initiated and coordinated by Gail Kligman and Katherine Verdery, research for this volume was conducted by a group of twenty anthropologists, historians, sociologists, and literary critics from Romania, United States, and Great Britain. Employing interdisciplinary methods and using a wealth of previously unexplored archival and oral sources, the authors managed to produce the most solid monograph to date on the process of collectivization in Romania. Book jacket.
Download or read book Area Handbook for Romania written by Eugene K. Keefe and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Romanian journal of sociology written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book OECD Economic Surveys Romania 1998 written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 1998-02-25 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 1998 edition of OECD's periodic review of Romania's economy examines recent economic developments, policies and prospects and includes special features on macroeconomic stabilisation and restructuring social policies.
Download or read book Sustainable Housing written by Amjad Almusaed and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2022-02-23 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sustainable housing is generally used to describe housing that is environmentally friendly and resource-efficient over the lifetime of the building. Homes are designed to have the least possible negative impact on the environment. This means energy efficiency, avoiding environmental toxins, and responsibly using materials and resources while having positive physical and psychological effects on inhabitants. This book presents a comprehensive overview of sustainable housing, starting from legislation and ending with the design and configuration of homes.
Download or read book Women s Life Writing in Post Communist Romania written by Simona Mitroiu and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2022-11-07 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyzes the impact of abusive regimes of power on women’s lives and on their self-expression through close readings of life writing by women in communist Romania. In particular, it examines the forms of agency and privacy available to women under totalitarianism and the modes of relationships in which their lives were embedded. The self-expression and self-reflexive processes that are to be found in the body of Romanian women’s autobiographical writings this study presents create complex private narratives that underpin the creative development of inclusive memories of the past through shared responsibility and shared agency. At the same time, however, the way these private, personal narratives intertwined with collective and official historical narratives exemplifies the multidimensional nature of privacy as well as the radical redefinition of agency in this period. This book argues for a broader understanding of the narratives of the communist past, one that reflects the complexity of individual and social interactions and allows a deep exploration of the interconnected relations between memory, trauma, nostalgia, agency, and privacy.
