JUA No. 18 (2022)

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Journal of Urban Anthropology – Nr. 18 (2022) – CONTENTS

EDITORIAL – George Cristian Curca

An anthropological perspective on the latest respiratory pandemics: our future response

INTRODUCTION     –    Modernization,    urbanization    and    medicalization in Romania by the end of the 19th century and the Interwar period, Octavian Buda

THEMATIC DOSSIER

Professor Cantacuzino: Pasteurian and Romanian Patron of the Arts, Steluţa Boroghină, Octavian Buda

Tuberculosis – a social disease of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. History and evolution, Ionuţ-Alexandru Banu

“Invalids of the Great War. Medical assistance, moral guidance and vocational education” Mădălina-Ioana Manolache

Secluded body – liberated body – Sequences of female body emancipation in Old Kingdom Romania, Alexandra Rusu

Fighting the Shame: Physicians, Priests, and Venereal Diseases in Romania, 1853-1874, Lidia Trăuşan-Matu, Octavian Buda

URBAN ANTHROPOLOGY

Văcăreşti area – The memory of a “place” of urban, historical, social and symbolic – community pressures, Atena-Ioana Gârjoabă, Cerasella Crăciun

Micro-events in the public space – The art of street performances, Monica-Gabriela Amuza

SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY

The disappearance of an urban breed: Bucharest cinemas, Antonia Panaitescu 

Balcony and intimacy. A research of urban anthropology on the balconies of Bucharest, Horia Bârloiu, Mocanu Sînziana

MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY

Is pole dance an empowering sport or a matter of female objectification? Critical perspectives on pole sport, sexuality and art expression, Adela-Cătălina Marian

REVIEWS

Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design, Alexandra Rusu

Matei Eugen Stoean, Ctitorii ale oamenilor liberi. Arhitectura bisericilor de zid ale românilor din zonele de graniță dintre Oltenia, Muntenia și Transilvania (1700-1850) [Foundations of free people. Stone architecture of liminal churches between Oltenia, Wallachia and Transylvania, 1700-1850], with a preface by Hanna Derer, Bucharest: ACS Publishing House, 2021, 396 p., with illustrations [in Romanian], Simona Drăgan