Martor No. 24 / Year 2019
Alexandra Urdea, From Storeroom to Stage: Romanian Attire and the Politics of Folklore, New York and Oxford: Berghahn Publishers, 2018, 210 p. (Download PDF)
Reviewed by:
Călin Cotoi
Faculty of Sociology and Social Work, Bucharest, Romania
Pages: 214-215
Keywords: Alexandra Urdea, From Storeroom to Stage, Berghahn Publishers.
Abstract:
Alexandra Urdea’s book describes the convoluted journey of an anthropologist and a host of rapidly changing objects (and contexts), between the storages and displays of the Horniman Museum and Romanian villages, museums, craft shops, and TV studios. It is not only a complex research and interpretation of objects of ethnography—always already removed, even on their way back to origins—but also a disciplinary journey, a translation between two different ethnographies-anthropologies: imperial and national.
How to cite this article: Cotoi, Călin. 2019. “Alexandra Urdea, From Storeroom to Stage: Romanian Attire and the Politics of Folklore, New York and Oxford: Berghahn Publishers, 2018, 210 p.” Martor 24: 214-215.