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The religious life of women in ancient Israel is depicted only scarcely in the Bible. Thus, it is of interest that the prescriptions for purification after menstruation is given explicit ritual attention in the Old Testament. Yet even in these passages the religious activities of women are mainly viewed and presented from the male perspective (e. g. their “impurity” and inability to participate in cult etc.). Is it possible to gather at least some reliable data about the practice and experience of the menstrual rituals in Ancient Israel?
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This text presents the contents of the book. The importance of conclusions and significance of the book for the people of Southeast Europe on their way to the European Union integration were commented on.
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This text presents the contents of the book. The importance of conclusions and significance of the book for the people of Southeast Europe on their way to the European Union integration were commented on.
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Immemorial age, originality and spectacular gag made famous as a few years ago, this Romanian dance to be included on the list of UNESCO as "a masterpiece of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity". This gesture deserved off topic but not, on the contrary, stimulated researchers to continue studies to, revealing previously unknown aspects or overlooked. Dance is still alive, the magic of drawing and specialists and beneficiaries and its audience. Prophylactic magical dance ceremony callus is closely linked to the time of Pentecost. He is considered panromân being certified in all provinces Daco‑Romanian, as in Macedonia. The purpose of a remedy callus is spirit‑disease and is certain ritual dances performed near the patient and his achievement with herbs
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The Romanian society is assaulted by more and more challenges that emphasize the notions of modern and actual, to the detriment of tradition and habit idea. In these circumstances, especially for the educational activities, the revaluation of local customs and traditions in school represent not only a way of training students, but a method of revitalization, recovery and promote of traditional customs in our schools.The teachers have a duty but also they are required to promote and sustain our traditions race which are really true spiritual values of our people and things that makes us unique and special. Educating our pupils, through various curricular and extracurricular activities, we manage to make them to love the language they speak but also the customs of the country where they were born.
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L. Juhász Ilona: Komárom emlékjelei az államfordulatok és rendszerváltások tükrében. Somorja –Komárom, Fórum Kisebbségkutató Intézet – Etnológiai Központ, 416 p. (Jelek a térben, 6.)
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„Dimitrie Ghika‑Comănești” Cultural and Scientific Association (ONG) organized a photography exhibition called „Of old,culture and traditions on the Trotuș Valley” at the National Village Museum „Dimitrie Gusti” in Bucharest between 27th October and 20th November 2012. The exhibition consisted of 150 pictures black and white or color which illustrated the customs, traditions, crafts, popular costumes, cultural interferences, traditional buildings and historical monuments from Trotuș Valley (from the spring to the flow). The images are representative for this geographical region of North‑Eastern Moldavia, illustrating a long historical evolution and a rich culture of different ethnographical communities (Romanian, Magyar and Rom).
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Articolul prezintă portul popular românesc de pe valea Cașinului.
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In the study we pay attention to the original document that can be interpreted in many ways. Laslo Nebojski has recently published an original document in German with Hungarian translation under the title Ethnographic-geographical description of the settlements in northern part of Backa during 1859–60. (Publishing House Argument, National Library “Széchényi”, Budapest, 2017). The collection is part of a detailed survey ordered by the Governor of Banat of Temes to be done in many villages in the province (27 settlements). Based on this material we tried to analyze the process in which, as a result of social construction, different identities were created in multiethnic villages. Internalization of identities is a set of different processes. In the Hungarian state, which has been multiethnic from the very beginning, particularly is interesting the history of identity forming of existing ethnic communities, including the Hungarians.
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After the devastating Turkish wars in Hungary, in the first quarter of the 18th century to peasants from German states was offered to migrate to the wild areas of South of the Hungarian kingdom, to the so called Schwäbische Türkei (Turkey for Swabian Germans). One group of the inhabitants in villages between the rivers Danube and Tisza, the Roman Catholic village, Hajós was settled from Württenberg. Their language (a unique idiom of Swabish, i. e. Alleman) and geograpical situation made them isolated, and thus developing a very rich peasant culture. Scholars (Mária Schön, Zsuzsanna Bereznai and János Müller) started from 1983, worked on a large ethnographic/folklore project to comprise the traditional lore of the village. Three bulky books (together more than two thousand printed pages) appeared. The first was dedicated to „mentality” of the village people, the second published the best known folk songs, and the third relates about the hardships of the German minority in Hungary from 1938 to 1954. The method of the books is the same: to conduct thousands of interviews, and using all written sources available.Then to make a carefully composed summary of peasant life in Hajós. The books not serve only the folklore textology, but express the self-identity of Hajós village – which is today flourishing again, thanks to the diligant peasants there. Because of the similarity of Bácska villages and their folklore research, the review is dedicated to Anna Szőke, devoted scholar of folklore identity in the Bácska.
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The Open Air Ethnographic Museum of Szentendre considers social responsibility as a very important task. In the course of educational lectures the goal is opinion formation, sensitization, transfer of useful, practical knowledge. In museum-pedagogical work, dedicated to the epoch of World War I, we evoke memories of the Kantash family in their former home, using original, old documents and props. Authentically furnitured interior of the museum, or Kantas's living room, will revive with the use of personal narratives – through which we can generate dialogue and interactivity. What could have been a division of family jobs 100 years ago? How did their lives change after their wounded father returned from the front? By asking such questions we will reconstruct the daily life of the family, while the students will provide answers to the questions, learn to accept handicapped people and view them as part of their own community.
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The parliamentary crises of the Hungarian history between 1903 and 1906 caused parliamentary coup, the dissolution of the diet, the end of administration of the Szabadelvű Part, the coalitional formation of the oppositionist parties and its accession to power, and finally the pulling apart of Hungarian public opinion (to those who seek for agreement and to national oppositionists, while 100 000 people from working-class overrun the streets of the capital city. According to the “new conciliation” at the beginning of 1906, Wekerle Sándor become the head of government, whose only presidential success was that the ashes of Rákóczi Ferenc II and his emigrant fellows were brought home and the reburial of them. For this event, he activated a country-wide cooperation. However, this “great national event” cannot be seen as a politically and ethnically conflictless manifestation. In this paper, I seek for an answer to the question: what discourses did the reburial ceremony of Rákóczi Ferenc II in 1906 represent in the south-Hungarian, multiethnic area of contemporary Hungary. Additionally, I analyzed what global and local contexts the revealed sources during press-analysis can be fit into.
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NÉMET Klaudió: Makacs moroviciak. Különös történetek egy bácskai falu múltjából, Vajdasági Magyar Helytörténeti Egyesület, Topolya, 2017.
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Widely known as „folk revival,” the tarantism phenomenon (otherwise known as “tarantolism”) has gained a particular interest throughout time, both from a social and cultural point of view, given the fact that this movement holds a ritualistic and cultural background remarkably unique within Italian history. From the time of the medieval period, both nationwide, in Italy, and at European level, many researchers from various fields, such as literature, ethnology and even from medicine have analyzed the origins and the advancement of this cultural “syndrome,” gradually identifying a voluminous amount of historical sources. Thus, it is remarkable that a high volume of these studies have been brought to light thanks to the contribution of Ernesto de Martino, a notorious Italian anthropologist and historian in the '50s. One of the most important work written by the neapolitan analyst is titled “La Terra del rimorso” (“The Land of Remorse,” E. De Martino, 1961). Over the past few years, the tarantism theme was approached by means of several concepts having a stark sociocultural impact. Among these concepts it can also be enumerated the Southern Italian genre, folk-revival, or the popular choreutic dance called “tarantella” (“the dance of the spider”).
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