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This is the first monograph on the history of the Rudari people of Romania and the first mapping of their settlements. The Rudari are a population which has traditionally inhabited the Balkan area and much of Central Europe. Many of them do not know the Romani language but speak Romanian dialects an...
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oapen-20.500.12657-766512023-10-10T02:37:45Z The Wallachian Gold-Washers Rotaru, Julieta Gaunt, David demography family Gypsies history Roma Romania bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JH Sociology & anthropology::JHM Anthropology::JHMC Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography This is the first monograph on the history of the Rudari people of Romania and the first mapping of their settlements. The Rudari are a population which has traditionally inhabited the Balkan area and much of Central Europe. Many of them do not know the Romani language but speak Romanian dialects and today make a living out of carving wooden household items, although their Slavic name alludes to mining. Indeed, the Rudari were for centuries gold-prospectors and gold-washers working for the Crown of Wallachia and were administrated as slaves by a monastery situated on the auriferous Olt river. The authors have reconstructed the fascinating history of this ethnic group for a period of 500 years until the 19th century when gold-panning went in decline due to the exhaustion of the reserves of alluvial gold. 2023-10-09T12:26:47Z 2023-10-09T12:26:47Z 2023 book ONIX_20231009_9783657790388_39 9783657790388 9783506790385 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/76651 eng application/pdf n/a 9783657790388.pdf https://brill.com/display/title/63620 Brill Schöningh 10.30965/9783657790388 10.30965/9783657790388 af16fd4b-42a1-46ed-82e8-c5e880252026 598f9735-72d1-48f7-aeb9-c9729323b380 9d4ff031-5927-4718-824c-3d06445ae1e3 9783657790388 9783506790385 Schöningh [...] [...] Mapping the Roma Community on Nineteenth Century Wallachia […] open access |
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This is the first monograph on the history of the Rudari people of Romania and the first mapping of their settlements. The Rudari are a population which has traditionally inhabited the Balkan area and much of Central Europe. Many of them do not know the Romani language but speak Romanian dialects and today make a living out of carving wooden household items, although their Slavic name alludes to mining. Indeed, the Rudari were for centuries gold-prospectors and gold-washers working for the Crown of Wallachia and were administrated as slaves by a monastery situated on the auriferous Olt river. The authors have reconstructed the fascinating history of this ethnic group for a period of 500 years until the 19th century when gold-panning went in decline due to the exhaustion of the reserves of alluvial gold. |
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