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omanians in Bulgaria.
history and ethnography
EMil ţÎrcoMNicu
The Romanian Ethnographic Atlas and the Romanian Ethnographic
Documents 1
the collective of ethnography of the Institute of ethnography and
Folklore had as project, for more than 40 years, the romanian ethnographic
Atlas (Aer). It was accomplished considering the romanian population
within the borders of the romanian state. Following the steps of the
romanian linguistic Atlas that went beyond the borders of the country,
the linguists applying the questionnaires in the romanian communities
outside romania too, at the romanians from timoc, Istro-romanians,
Megleno-romanians and A-romanians, the ethnographers have to extend
the researches to the areas where there is population of the same ethnic
origin.
In 2003 the first volume of Aer, The Habitation, editura Academiei
române and Monitorul oficial, Bucharest, 2003, 271 p. was published.
then, vol. II, The Occupations, editura Academiei române, Bucharest,
2005, 295 p. and vol. III, Popular Equipment and Food, editura Academiei
române, Bucharest, 2008, 287 p. the volume IV, Popular Art and Costume
has all the maps elaborated and computed and now the modeling of this
volume are on the way to be done. the whole work, the elaboration and the
computing of the maps, the digital processing of the images, the modeling,
the translation was accomplished by the collective of the ethnography of
the Institute. the last volume of the Atlas, Feasts and Customs, will be
elaborated in 2011 and published probably in 2012–2013.
1 this work was supported by CnCSIS-ueFISCSu, project number pnII – IDeI
code 868/2008.