JUA No. 20 (2022)

Journal of Urban Anthropology – Nr. 20 (2023) – CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

Researching ethnic markets in the modern urban space – Andreea PASCARU

THEMATIC DOSSIER

Markets, ethnic cultures, and minority languages: Constructing semiotic landscapes of diversity – Giustina SELVELLI

Can markets be ethnic? The Ottoman bedestens (fabric bazaars) throughout history – Thede KAHL

Valea Cascadelor: Constructing and negotiating identities in a Bucharest flea market – Alexandra RUSU

Across the counter relations: sociability in the farmersʼ markets of Bistrița and Năsăud – Florin DUMITRESCU

Bucharest’s markets as places for selling products and ʽexperiencesʼ during the religious and folk holidays of the year –Dorina DRAGNEA (ONICA)

Xanthi’s bazaar: historical approach and ethnographic experience of a local market and its culture – Aikaterini MARKOU

Hucksters’ polyglossia: “hostanys”, “pems” and “fribourgers”: an incursion into vendors’ discourse in multilingual markets – Cora SAURER-CHIOREANU

The work and commercial networks of Bulgarian and Albanian rag and bone traders in the open-air rag and bone market in Athens today – Georgios KOUZAS

Identity, otherness and commerce in times past Bucharest „The Flea Market” – Alexandra RUSU

URBAN ANTHROPOLOGY

Property trajectories in socialism: The Bulgarian case – Evgenia KRASTEVA-BLAGOEVA

ANTHROPOLOGY OF LANDSCAPE

Urban ecological semiotics: evidence from Novi Sad and Sofia – Martin HENZELMANN

MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY 

Coronavirus and challenges to refugees’ resilience in Weimar, Germany – Ruweida ALJABALI & Frank ECKARDT

BOOK REVIEWS

Rural snapshots. A review of “Culese din rural”, edited by Valer Simion Cosma and Emanuel Modoc – Maria CHIOREAN

A review of “The Making of Mămăligă: Transimperial Recipes for a Romanian National Dish” by Alex Drace-Francis (English) – Cosmin DRAGOMIR