Attitudes towards prehistoric objects in Romanian folk culture (19th-20th century)
In the present study we intend to reconstruct the attitudes of Romanian peasants towards the vestiges of prehistoric material culture. They have been in contact with a diversity of prehistoric artefacts: polished and perforated stone axes, silex arrow tips, chisels, scrapers, spindle whorls, jewelle...
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Centre for Languages and Literature, Lund University
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| description | In the present study we intend to reconstruct the attitudes of Romanian peasants towards the vestiges of prehistoric material culture. They have been in contact with a diversity of prehistoric artefacts: polished and perforated stone axes, silex arrow tips, chisels, scrapers, spindle whorls, jewellery, etc. We try to find answers to the following questions: What people thought about the origin of prehistoric artefacts? What meanings were associated with such artefacts? What was their place in the collective imaginary? Which were the uses of these objects? |
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| spelling | doaj.art-9d1b4e80da05415f96f3d1ef6d7846f42023-08-02T12:15:31ZengCentre for Languages and Literature, Lund UniversitySwedish Journal of Romanian Studies2003-09242019-05-012191108https://doi.org/10.35824/sjrs.v2i1.18751Attitudes towards prehistoric objects in Romanian folk culture (19th-20th century)Alexandru Ofrim0University of Bucharest, Faculty of LettersIn the present study we intend to reconstruct the attitudes of Romanian peasants towards the vestiges of prehistoric material culture. They have been in contact with a diversity of prehistoric artefacts: polished and perforated stone axes, silex arrow tips, chisels, scrapers, spindle whorls, jewellery, etc. We try to find answers to the following questions: What people thought about the origin of prehistoric artefacts? What meanings were associated with such artefacts? What was their place in the collective imaginary? Which were the uses of these objects? https://journals.lub.lu.se/sjrs/article/view/18751archeologypopular beliefscollective imaginaryprehistoric artefactsthunderstonesmagical practices |
| spellingShingle | Alexandru Ofrim Attitudes towards prehistoric objects in Romanian folk culture (19th-20th century) Swedish Journal of Romanian Studies archeology popular beliefs collective imaginary prehistoric artefacts thunderstones magical practices |
| title | Attitudes towards prehistoric objects in Romanian folk culture (19th-20th century) |
| title_full | Attitudes towards prehistoric objects in Romanian folk culture (19th-20th century) |
| title_fullStr | Attitudes towards prehistoric objects in Romanian folk culture (19th-20th century) |
| title_full_unstemmed | Attitudes towards prehistoric objects in Romanian folk culture (19th-20th century) |
| title_short | Attitudes towards prehistoric objects in Romanian folk culture (19th-20th century) |
| title_sort | attitudes towards prehistoric objects in romanian folk culture 19th 20th century |
| topic | archeology popular beliefs collective imaginary prehistoric artefacts thunderstones magical practices |
| url | https://journals.lub.lu.se/sjrs/article/view/18751 |
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