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Record Nr.

UNINA9910807224603321

Autore

Urdea Alexandra

Titolo

From storeroom to stage : Romanian attire and the politics of folklore / / Alexandra Urdea

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York ; ; Oxford : , : Berghahn, , 2019

ISBN

1-78920-104-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (209 pages)

Collana

Material mediations : people and things in a world of movement ; ; Volume 10

Disciplina

391.009498

Soggetti

Clothing and dress - Romania

Costume - Romania

Folklore - Romania

Material culture - Romania

National characteristics, Romanian

Romania Social life and customs

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Part I. Objects Defined -- INTRODUCTION Where a Collection Can Take You -- 1 Framing the Object -- Part II. Objects Kept -- 2 Unfolding the Past: The Context of the Archives -- 3 Out of the Wardrobes -- Part III. Objects in Place -- 4 Bringing It All Back Home -- 5 Houses of Modernity -- 6 Reconfigurations of the Public Space -- Part IV. Objects on Stage -- 7 The Boundaries of Folclor -- 8 Folklore Stars -- CONCLUSION What Does ‘Folklore’ Do? -- References -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Departing from an ethnographic collection in London, From Storeroom to Stage traces the journey of its artefacts back to the Romanian villages where they were made 70 years ago, and to other places where similar objects are still in use. The book explores the role that material culture plays in the production of value and meaning by examining how folk objects are mobilized in national ideologies, transmissions of personal and family memory, museological discourses, and artistic acts.