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on this subject, a volume accompanied by a DVD and four radio shows
broadcast during this period. our option was to select three localities from
Bulgaria and three ones from Serbia that represent the spreading centre for
the same phenomenon in less investigated areas in oltenia today.
the immediate product of the research (a volume and DVD) was only
the first valuation of the field information, an overview of the presence of
the roadside crucifixes in rural community and about the decoding, at the
first stage of reception, of the religious, cultural, historical, visual/aesthetic
meanings in oltenia, timoc (Bulgaria) and Voivodina (Serbia). At this
first stage the realization of typologies functioned on two different planes:
historical (the sequence of the roadside crucifixes image: at the beginning of
the 20 th century from the oltenia Museum archives, contemporary images –
2,000 photos taken by the team members and image valued aesthetically
by the painter Vasile Buz) and geographically (tracing the field researches’
routes).
the theme of the project meets the contemporary challenges of
maintaining the cultural identity of the romanians who live abroad, of the
non-material heritage which is specific to these communities, as well as of
the necessity to strengthen the cross-border cultural dialogue, to create a
cultural communicational network for communities which share the same
identity values.
the interdisciplinary character of the team project can fulfill the
requirements of this viable cultural project, carried out in an extended
cultural area, but having identity cultural similarities in the profound
domain of the funeral ceremonies, of the material aspects that accompany
these ceremonies, as well as of anthropological significance. An innovative
aspect of the project consists in the fact that cultural activities were based
on an ethnological comparative research (oltenia, timoc, Voivodina),
facilitating the cross-border cultural dialogue.
the above-mentioned communities are the main beneficiaries of the
research and of the cultural activities, enhancing the awareness of the local
immaterial heritage and encouraging its preservation and a creative and
efficient valuation. partners from areas with the same cultural and identity
background, namely romanians from the Bulgarian and Serbian timoc
and Voivodina were involved in these collaboration activities regarding the
immaterial local heritage
the direct beneficiaries of this project are represented by:
a) the communities where the field research took place, in Dolj county:
salcia, Argetoaia; in olt county: Pietriş, Baldovineşti; in Mehedinţi county:
Izverna, ponoarele; in Gorj: polovragi, rabova, aiming at the identification