Venereal diseases and race degeneration

Author: Alexandra Rusu Before the 19th century, venereal diseases received very little attention from the authorities, especially concerning prevention. Among these diseases, syphilis was best known. Syphilis is a sexually transmitted disease caused by the bacterium...

The global screen

Author: Alexandra Rusu The title reflects the eponymous work of two personalities from different fields who united in developing a discourse of hypermodernity and its relationship with cinema. Gilles Lipovetsky and Jean Serroy argue for the disappearance of classical...

House vs. Home

Author : Alexandra Rusu In anthropological research, the concept of home has received several meanings, from being a simple framework for various social relationships (e.g., kinship) – a way to order society – to a symbol of distinct cultural beliefs....

Fashion and identity

Autor: Alexandra Rusu The systematic study of fashion in anthropology began in the mid-1980s when clothing and accessories contributed to research into the processes of social, cultural, and historical transformation. Also, this period witnessed a unification of...

Diseases in Bucharest in the second half of the 19th century

Author: Alexandra Rusu Although medicine was making significant progress, and the level of trust in doctors was on the rise, Bucharest, in the second half of the 19th century was constantly under threat of illness. Upon his coming to the country, Dr. Carol Davila, the...

On Belle Époque morals

Author: Alexandra Rusu At the end of the 19th century, the stricter control of clandestine prostitution and the reformation of brothels coincided with the affirmation of family life values. The sanctity and pleasures of ideal family life called for protection against...

“Artificial Paradise”. Opiates and drug use in interwar Bucharest

Author: Alexandra Rusu During the interwar, the people of Bucharest lived every moment with intensity. Caught up in the hustle and bustle of everyday life, they sometimes forgot to separate the good from the evil. In the gallery of self-imposed evil, we distinguish...

A healthy Belle Époque home

Author: Alexandra Rusu As early as the second half of the 19th century, Western European social reformers, including doctors, architects, and philosophers, drew attention to the importance of improving the quality of living conditions in urban areas. They claimed that...

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

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

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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