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...
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...
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....
Author: Alexandra Rusu In the first decades of the last century, Bucharest faced problems caused by the rapid growth of the population and the industrialization, which engaged more and more workers in factories or workshops. Many of them lived on the outskirts, often...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
by Cristiana OPREA Senior Consultant in Infectious Diseases at the Dr. Victor Babeş Clinical Hospital for Infectious and Tropical Diseases Associate Professor at the “Carol Davila” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Bucharest cristiana_oprea@umfcd.ro MOTTO “A...
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...
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 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Immigration and the City Editors: Dr Ioana Radu, Dr Ioana Comat, and Ruxandra Iuliana Petrinca (Canache) Call for papers In 2016 the Canada-European Union Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) had reached a deadlock when Romania and Bulgaria refused to...
English Over the years, urban anthropology has gained its status among disciplines of research. Anthropologists’ interest was stimulated by historical events and geo-political changes that allowed the start of research related to the entire process of urbanisation for...
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