Promovent/in:
Răzvan Roșu
Betreuung:
Prof. Dr. Thede Kahl
Beschreibung:
The Carpathian Mountains are still one of the most interesting and unstudied Europe's regions, offering a large variety of case studies. From an anthropological, dialectological or ethnomusicological perspective the mountain areas were during the 19th and 20th centuries excellent keepers of numerous archaisms, which in the lowlands were already lost. In the present research it will be analyzed aspects regarding the mountainous inhabitancy, vernacular architecture, dialect, music, clothing, mentality and religiosity in Ţara Moţilor (Hung. Mócvidék, Mócföld Germ. Motzenland) the highest inhabited region from Transylvania. It will be used the collected material during the field researches, but also documents from archives, newspaper, diaries. One can observe that until now there is a lack of ethnographical/anthropological research in this region inhabited by the so called Moţi. Most of the existing works present only the romanticized image of the Moţi, as rebels, created during the 19th and 20th centuries. There will be also a comparative perspective with other groups from the Carpathians: Moravian Vlachs in Czech Republic; Gorals (Pol. górale, Slov. gorali, Czeh. gorole); Hutsuls in Ukraine and Oşeni, Moroşeni in Romania, in order to see if one has to deal with common, transnational features.