Louis Dupré. The traveler’s workshop

In „Revue des deux mondes” (1839), the French writer and political economist Louis Reybaud, seeking to capture the essence of travel literature, presents a possible portrait of the writer-traveler: “The traveler is a special being, so dynamic and impressive that,...
Pipes, chibouks, and tobacco

Pipes, chibouks, and tobacco

Tobacco was cultivated and traded in the Romanian Principalities since the seventeenth century, as evidenced by the taxes („tobacco cultivation tax”) and customs duties (“outside tax” or “inside tax”) collected. The amplitude of the smoking...
The mechanisms of culture. An evolutionary perspective

The mechanisms of culture. An evolutionary perspective

Genetics, epigenetics, psychology, and anthropology investigate the multiple dimensions of evolution, in which the mechanisms of transmission of genetic or cultural information operate. New studies in the field of epigenetics reveal that the experiences of our...

The Other

The travels to distant places, on trade routes and great geographical discoveries have brought to Europe more or less truthful evidence of the populations encountered in various parts of the world. They illustrated human diversity, often disconcerting and strange. The...

Urban anthropology. An introduction

A subdomain of cultural anthropology characterized by the amplitude and diversity of research, urban anthropology established itself as a response of anthropologists to the impasse triggered by the “dissolution of the traditional object” caused by the end...

The Urban Anthropology Symposium 2020 is postponed

Dear ladies and gentlemen, Dear friends, Given the evolution of the pandemic and travel restrictions, we are forced to postpone the International Conference on Urban Anthropology scheduled for November 13-14, 2020, now in its sixth edition. The period considered for...

Biodiversity in anthropological research at Francisc Joseph Rainer

by Dr.Adrian Majuru Assistant Professor Phd, Ion Mincu University of Architecture and Urbanism – Bucharest Faculty of Urbanism adimajuru@gmail.com Abstract This article is dedicated to Francisc J. Rainer and his methods to anthropological researchers. Francisc...

The Tatoo In Modern Romanian Society

by Dr.Adrian Majuru[1] Assistant Professor Phd, Ion Mincu University of Architecture and Urbanism – Bucharest Faculty of Urbanism adimajuru@gmail.com   Abstract The oldest documents testifying tattoo date from the Middle Ages. This fashion was taken after...
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