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mostly from abroad, where there are romanian communities. It is essential
to know that the funeral ceremonies represent the most stable aspects of
the cultural identity which also account for anthropological implications.
the project has an essential component, too, namely creating archives for
some oral documents that point out the evolution or the transformations of
some traditional trades, such as making crosses (mostly) or painting icons
on glass or wood.
taking into account the ethnological and anthropological research
into the cultural identity aspects of the romanian roadside crucifixes, we
observed the necessity of writing studies regarding the roadside crucifixes
as a bond between religious symbolism and contemporary valuations in
the South-West of oltenia and in the Bulgarian and Serbian timoc, in
Voivoidina, studies that will offer a frame of analyses for the cultural,
social and historical context of this social practice, as well as of the changes
in people’s minds. At the same time the project considers necessary the
drawing up of a typology, including also contemporary, recent roadside
crucifixes. this typology should analyse both functional and aesthetic
changes of these roadside crucifixes.
the funeral ceremony is best kept in the cultural space of the community,
representing an obvious identity label. As a result, roadside crucifixes can
be regarded as identity links for the cross-border cultural dialogue among
romania, Serbia and Bulgaria.
The project team:
– reader Gabriela rusu-Păsărin, Phd, project manager, university of
Craiova;
– professor nicolae panea, ph.D., Deputy rector of university of
Craiova;
– cornel Bălosu, Ph.d, head of the department, the “oltenia” Museum,
Craiova;
– Gabriela Boangiu, ph.D. candidate, researcher, “C.S. nicolaescu-
Plopşor” institute for studies in social sciences and humanities, craiova,
romanian Academy;
– Vasile Buz, visual artist, the union of Visual Artists from romania,
Craiova branch;
– Ivo-Filipov Gheorghiev, president of the union of the romanian
ethnics “AVe” from Bulgaria;
– Vasile Barbu, president of the literary-Artistic Society “tibiscus”
from uzdin, Serbia.