Metoda magico-metafizică (ştiinţifică) la academicienii bănăţeni Atanasie Marienescu şi Simeon Mangiuca
The magical–metaphysical method elaborated by Atanasie Marienescu and Simeon Mangiuca

Summary/Abstract: The author aims at demonstrating – using cultural history – that two of the most important ethnologists from the 19th century Banat (south-eastern Romania), i.e. Athanasie Marienescu (1830 – 1915) and Simeon Mangiuca (1831 – 1890) have founded their mythology and comparative folklore studies on a certain method. This method is referred to as magical – metaphysical or scientific. In this regard, the study refers to cultural archetypes and symbols that have created sacred genealogies (eg. the wolf – as a symbol of the Romanian cultural and spirituality). These genealogies were developed by (metaphorical or metonymical) transfers of the significant over new socio-cultural data. These data appear in history revealing internal and external connexions. The method was elaborated by Simeon Mangiuca and was confirmed (independently – most likely it was not known) by Mircea Eliade, within the second half of the 20th century (cf. Eliade, De la Zamolxis la Ghenghis Han).

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