Launch of MARTOR Journal, volume 28/2023,
Witchcraft, Magic, Divination and the Twenty-first Century
Thursday, February the 8th, 2024, from 5:00 p.m., we invite you to the launch and debate on volume 28/2023 of MARTOR Journal. The anthropology yearbook of the Museum of the Romanian Peasant, themed: "Witchcraft, magic, divination and the 21st century".
The event will take place as part of the Group for Anthropology Research and Debate (GARD) meetings hosted by New Europe College – at the New Europe College headquarters, 21st. Plantelor st. Free entry.
Participants:
Coordinators of the event:
- Dr. Cătălina TESĂR (National Museum of the Romanian Peasant and University of Bucharest)
- Dr. Giuseppe TATEO (University of Bucharest)
Coordinators of the 28/2023 MARTOR Issue:
- Dr. Tünde KOMÁROMI, Associate Professor at the Institute of Social Studies and Communication (Károli Gáspár University, Budapest)
- Dr. Ileana BENGA, senior researcher (Institute of Folklore of the Romanian Academy, Cluj-Napoca)
- Dr. Bogdan NEAGOTA, lecturer (Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca)
- Dr. Anamaria IUGA, editor of MARTOR Journal
Authors of the articles included in the 28/2023 MARTOR Issue
The roundtable will be followed by the screening of the film Desfăcutul (“The Disenchantment”), directed by Radu Răutu and Vasile Mănăstireanu, 1975 (29.35 min.), courtesy of the Archive of Muzeul Maramureșan (Museum of Maramureș, Sighetul Marmației).
The evening will end with the novel screening of the film "Desfăcutul" (”The Disenchantment”), directed by Radu Răutu and Vasile Mănăstireanu, 1975 (29.35 min.), movie pertaining to the archive of Muzeul Maramureșan (Museum of Maramureș, Sighetul Marmației).
The current issue of MARTOR presents seventeen articles, studies and book reviews that approach the topic of magic, witchcraft and divination practices and representations, seeing them in the wider context of the changes that occur in the contemporary European world (with examples from Romania, France and Russia), but also Asia (a case study from Nepal). The articles comprised by the volume dwell on the way in which a cultural connection is created through occult practices, not only with the past, but also with the present. The volume is, thus, part of the new trend in Anthropology that has shifted, starting with the 1980s, the researchers’ interest from African magic to France, and with this, towards the European space.
Taking part in the debate there will be the volume's coordinators: Dr. Tünde Komáromi, associate professor at the Institute of Social Studies and Communication (Károli Gáspár University, Budapest), Dr. Ileana Benga, senior researcher (Institute of Folklore of the Romanian Academy, Cluj-Napoca), and Dr. Bogdan Neagota, senior lecturer at the Department of Classical Languages and Literatures (Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca), authors of the articles included in the magazine pages, as well as Dr. Anamaria Iuga, editor of MARTOR Journal (National Museum of the Romanian Peasant).
PARTNERS: National Museum of the Romanian Peasant, New Europe College, Museum of Maramureș from Sighetul Marmației