The Healing Gurban: On the Traces of the Rudari from Southern Romania
The Healing Gurban: On the Traces of the Rudari from Southern Romania
Author(s): Ileana Benga, Bogdan NeagotăSubject(s): History, Essay|Book Review |Scientific Life, Geography, Regional studies
Published by: Academia Română – Centrul de Studii Transilvane
Keywords: Rudari; Băieși (Bayash); identity; wood transhumance; Gurban; sacrifice; lamb; the Saintly Ones
Summary/Abstract: The paper is an introduction to 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. Starting from field researches on the Healing Gurban, firmly a Rudar trademark, our team endeavors 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.
Journal: Transylvanian Review
- Issue Year: XXV/2016
- Issue No: 01
- Page Range: 74-94
- Page Count: 21
- Language: English