REVISTA DE ETNOGRAFIE I FOLCLOR

JOURNAL O F ETHNOGRAPHY A N D FOLKLORE

New Series

12

2013

CONTENTS
PAST RENDERINGS, PRESENT APPROACHES
SVETLANA TSONKOVA
The Medieval and Early Modern Bulgarian Charms in the Context of Compilation:
Questions and Patterns ...........................................................................................................

NECMI ERDOAN
Nasreddin Hoca and Tamerlane: Encounters with Power
in the Turkish Folk Tradition of Laughter ...........................................................................

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KRINKA VIDAKOVI-PETROV
Choosing a Bride: Verbal and Non-Verbal Text in Childrens Folklore .......................

37

LAURA JIGA ILIESCU

The Ambiguous Dragon: Considerations on Abduction and Marriage in Legends about
the Fair of the Two Lands ......................................................................................................

51

BOGDAN NEAGOTA
Cultural Transmission and Mechanisms of Fictionalisation and
Mythification in Oral Narratives ...........................................................................................

63

ILEANA BENGA
Tales We Tell Are Tales We Dwell: The Tale between Belief-Tale and Fairytale ........

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MARIN MARIAN-BLAA
Maternity as a Source for Religion .......................................................................................

101

MOJCA RAMAK
Breast Cancer in Symbols and Words ..................................................................................

109

NICOLAE TEODOREANU
Musical-Incantational Values of Meaningless Speech While Shoeing: A Case Study ....

135

ROXANA RDVAN, MONICA SIMILEANU

Conservation of Material Support for Immaterial Heritage ................................................

143

ETHNOGRAPHIC FIELDS
ESSICA MARKS
Songs of Jewish Women in the Historical Communities of
Northwest Libya and Southern Morocco ...............................................................................

157

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MARIN CONSTANTIN
Ethnogenesis and Ethnomorphosis in the Ethno-Cultural Variability of Romania ...........

173

LUCIAN DAVID
Ethnographic Landscapes in Dobrogea .................................................................................

197

EMIL RCOMNICU
Identity and Self-Identification of Aromanians and Megleno-Romanians in Dobrogea ......

217

YELIS EROLOVA
An Ethnological Study of the Crimean Tatars, Roma/Gypsies and Old Believers in
Northern and Southern Dobrudzha .......................................................................................

237

BOOK REVIEWS
MAURICE MENGEL
Marin Marian-Blaa: Muzicologii, etnologii, subiectiviti, politici [Musicologies, Ethnologies,
Subjectivities, Politics], Bucureti, Editura Muzical, 2011 ......................................................

261

ALINA IOANA CIOBNEL

Roxana Deca: Woman, Feminism, Feminity: Criteria for an Ethnology of Equilibrium in the
Romanian Traditional Society, Craiova, Editura Universitaria, 2012 ........................................

269

LAURA JIGA ILIESCU

Dionigi Albera: Au fil des gnrations. Terre, pouvoire et parent dans lEurope alpine
(XIVe-XXe sicles) [Throughout Generations: Land, Power, and Kinship in the Alpine Europe
(14th-20th C.)], Grenoble, Presse Universitaire de Grenoble, 2011 ............................................

274

GEORGETA STOICA
Paula Popoiu: Antropologia Dobrogei / Dobruja Anthropology, Craiova, Editura Universitaria,
2010 ...........................................................................................................................................

280

IOANA GABRIELA DUICU

Vivian Dragomir: Conservarea i restaurarea arhitecturii vernaculare / The Conservation
and Restoration of Vernacular Architecture, Craiova, Editura Universitaria, 2012 ..................

283

VIVIAN DRAGOMIR
Ioana Gabriela Duicu: Paftaua, podoab definitorie a portului balcanic / The Ornamental
Belt Buckle, a Jewellery Defining the Balkan Folk Costume, Craiova, Editura Universitaria,
2012 ...........................................................................................................................................

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List of Contributors .................................................................................................................

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