MARTOR 29 / 2024

DYNAMICS OF INTANGIBLE HERITAGE. SHEPHERDING

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DOI: www.doi.org/10.57225/martor.2024.29

Coordinators: Anamaria IUGA, Carmen MIHALACHE, Magdalena ANDREESCU

Partner of the Project: Muzeul Județean Satu Mare (Satu Mare County Museum), Romania

Contents-Sommaire

Anamaria IUGA, Carmen MIHALACHE, Magdalena ANDREESCU
Shepherding and the Dynamics of Intangible Heritage

I. Discontinuous Continuities

Mariana HURJUI-SĂU
Villages in Vrancea Region and Their Pastoral Songs. Past and Present

Anna WESTIN, Tommy LENNARTSSON
Can Current Grazing Practices Preserve Biodiversity in Semi-natural Pastures? A Study of the Historical Ecology of Swedish Infield Pastures

Răzvan PAPASIMA, Alexandru IORGA
The Making of Modern Sheep. The New Pastoral Regime and Its Discontents

II. Fragile Cohabitations

Sebastiano MANNIA
Transhumance in the Time of UNESCO. Political Narratives, Rhetorical Representations, Enhancement Practices

Cornelia FLOREA
Via Transilvanica: Who Is on Whose Territory? What is Like to be a Traveller in the Proximity of a Sheepfold?

Elisabeth TAUBER
Herders in Transformation: Exploring Changing Landscapes in the Eastern Italian Alps

Roxana TRIBOI
Urban Pastoralism around Bucharest: Between Preserving Livelihoods and Adapting to Pressure from Urban Sprawl

III. Transformations of Pastoral Identities

Ana PASCU
Between Mine and Sheepfold: Plural Identities of the Peasants from the Jiu Valley, Romania

Andrea MEMBRETTI
The Young Shepherds School: Training for Restanza in the Italian Alps

Ibolya SÁFIÁNNÉ, Márta Sófalviné TAMÁS, Zsófia OSVALD, Margit DOBÓ, Erzsébet SZALAI, Margareta LELEA, Zsolt MOLNÁR
It’s not Merely a Struggle, the Way We Live, it’s Wonderful, too! The Changing Life and Role of Women Herders in the Last 120 Years in Hungary

IV. Pastoralism on Display

Iuliana DUMITRU
The Wandering Sheep or how I set off to conduct Fieldwork

Raluca-Magda OPREA-MINOIU
How to Feel the World and Share it With Others

George CĂȚEAN
The Future of Pastoralism. Challenges and Resilience

V. Fieldnotes

Laura JIGA ILIESCU
Scuffling with the Wild Animal. Recorded Documents with Shepherds from the Carpathians

Horațiu Silviu ILEA
The Muruite [Smeared] Shirt as Sign of Occupational Status

Mihaela GRIGOREAN
Architecture of Transhumance in Țara Oașului, Northern Romania: Fieldnotes

VI. Book Reviews

Letizia Bindi, ed. 2022. Grazing Communities. Pastoralism on the Move and Biocultural Heritage Frictions. New York – Oxford: Berghahn Books. Studies in Environmental Anthropology and Ethnobiology. Vol. 29, 314 p.
Reviewed by Georgiana VLAHBEI

Laura Jiga Iliescu. 2020. Biserica de alături. Câteva rituri necercetate ale ciobanilor din Carpați. Studiu de etnologie asupra religiozității pastorale [The church next door. Unresearched rites of the Carpathian shepherds. Ethnological study of pastoral religiosity]. Iași: Institutul European, 226 p.
Reviewed by Cornelia FLOREA

Shepherding. A Total Social Fact
Review by Ciprian VOICILĂ

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Proiect editorial co-finanțat de Administrația Fondului Cultural Național. / This issue of Martor has been published with the financial support of the National Cultural Fund Administration (AFCN Romania).

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