Alkalmazott antropológia a moldvai csángóknál? Kísérlet elmélet és gyakorlat viszonyának újraértelmezése
Applied Anthropology among the Moldavian Csángós? Attempt to Re-interpret the Relation between

Summary/Abstract: In my paper, I discuss the issue of how the approach of applied anthropology can be put into use in the Moldavian Csángó context. This issue is also a reconsideration of the relationship between theory (the non-coherent scholarly research made on Csángós) and practice (saving the Csángós). My aim is to investigate the subject in relation to the kind of ways the ethnographic-anthropologic knowledge can be used in assessing a particular socio-cultural problem of the local society. The latter is nothing else than the foreign labour migration causing a radical transformation of the social strata of Moldavian Csángó societies, concerning most of the Csángó settlements. The examples are taken from a village, Luizi-Călugăra, where I have conducted an ethnographic research since 2005. To explore such a complex issue I fi rst investigate the domain to which the Csángó-saving practices and the concepts of development can be applied in relation to the Moldavian Csángós, as well as the range of possible assumptions behind them. Meanwhile, we gain insight into the lessons possibly learnt in the Csángó issue through the introduction of the approach of applied anthropology, both by the scholars and by those involved in saving the Csángós. Then I analyze the question of foreign labour migration and the knowledge of social science applied. EME

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