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Csángó Questions of Destiny Interpreted by Laura Iancu

Summary/Abstract: Laura Iancu was born in Magyarfalu (Arini), Moldavia, and she is a researcher with a degree and a doctorate in theology and ethnography. Why Csángó, if Hungarian? – is the important question of her new book, which analyses why and since when the word “csángó” has been used in academic life and a part of the public discourse to denote the community she comes from. The tone of this word is pejorative and means, in the Eastern Hungarian dialect, someone who has been ‘separated from the majority'. During the examination of the causes, she reviews the history of the Hungarian groups that have been continuously arriving from the Carpathian basin since the 13th century, the difficulties of maintaining their Catholic religion and their native language, their ethnographic features, and the circumstances endangering their identity.

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