The Romanian Peasant Musuem, National Museum of Arts and Traditions holds the richest collection of peasant objects in Romania. Almost 90.000 pieces of patrimony are as many witnesses helping our contemporaries to understand the peasant world.
The Ceramics Collection holds around 18.000 representative pieces for the almost 200 pottery centers of Romania. Tohether with these, we hold the complete inventory of some pottery workshops from Hunedoara and Valcea, dating from the 19th century.
There are exceptional pieces from Horezu, Oboga, Vama, Pisc, Curtea de Arges, Leheceni, Lapus, Binis, Barsa, Corund, Glogova, Marginea, Radauti, Noul Roman, Drauseni, Fagaras. The oldest piece dates back to 1746.
The Costume Collection holds almost 20.000 pieces of costume from all Romanian provinces starting with the first half of the 19th century. Some of the pieces were donated by personalities such as Queen Maria, Sabina Cantacuzino, Elisa I. Bratianu and collectors like Dimitrie Comsa and Octavian Roguski.
The Collection of Decorative Interior Homespun increased from 5000 pieces in 1991 to almost 10.000 today. Most of The Wool Homespun, over 7.000 of them, are dated back to the beginning of the 19th century.
The Wood, Furniture and Ironware Collection holds almost 8000 pieces. Very important acquisitions are the house and gate made by Antonie Mogos from Ceauru(Oltenia) brought in 1907 by Alexandru Tzigara-Samurcas and exhibited today in the museum
The Religious Collections holds almost 4.000 pieces.
MARTOR nr. 25/2020 // MARRIAGE-MAKING AMONG ROMA IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE: PRACTICES, IMAGINARIES, ECONOMIES
A apărut numărul 25/2020 al revistei MARTOR, cu tema „Marriage-making Among Roma in Central and Eastern Europe: Practices, Imaginaries, Economies”, volum coordonat de Ana Chirițoiu și Cătălina Tesăr. Tema numărului din acest an cuprinde 12 studii și analize (etnografice, legale, dialogice și vizuale) despre cum se încheie căsătoriile în diferite comunități rome din centrul și estul Europei. Volumul se încheie cu trei recenzii a unor titluri de referință în domeniu.
Revista se găsește online integral la adresa: http://martor.muzeultaranuluiroman.ro/
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CUPRINS:
Ana CHIRIȚOIU, Cătălina TESĂR, Introduction: Roma Marriage-Making, Between the Constraints of “Tradition” and the “Choices” of Liberalization
I. Unpacking “Tradition”: Genealogies, Contingencies, Ideologies
Martin OLIVERA, Entre idéologie nobiliaire, utopie égalitaire et circonstances singulieres : le « bon mariage » chez les Roms Gabori
Bogdan MATEESCU, Marriage and Family Life of Romanians and Roma: Aspects Reflected in the First Two Modern Romanian Censuses
Grégoire COUSIN, « O abjáv kaj sas maškár aménde phaṟada e dušmania ». Généalogie d’un mariage
II. Marrying In, Out, and Sideways: Liberalization and Change
Andreea RACLEȘ, “Free Choice” in Marriage-Making among Romanianised Roma
Margaret BEISSINGER, “Lăutar Space”: Marriage, Weddings, and Identity among Romani Musicians in Romania
Jonathan LARCHER, Tout n’est qu’histoire d’amour. Une chronique personnelle sur les sentiments et la crainte de Dieu en « tsiganie »
Cecília KOVAI, Constraints on “Free Choice”: The Role of Marriage in a Hungarian Romungro Community
III. Law and Activism in the Case of Early Age and/or Arranged Marriages
Maria G. NIKOLOVA, Parents, Children, Marriage: Bulgarian Courts’ View on Romani Marriage-making
Angéla KÓCZÉ, Ana CHIRIȚOIU, “What’s the Point of Studying Kinship if You Don’t Connect It to the Broader Power Structure.” A Dialogue
Iulia HAȘDEU, Les femmes rom, entre statut de Romni et démocratie sexuelle. Essai d’anthropologie féministe
IV. Visual Representations of Roma Marriages
Alina ȘERBAN, Cătălina TESĂR, “We Start Our Lives from Different Positions.” A Dialogue
Ileana Gabriela SZASZ, Dare to Record! The Ethics of Decision Making in Fieldwork Documentary Practice
V. Book Reviews
Norah Benarrosh-Orsoni. 2019. La maison double. Lieux, routes et objects d’une migration rom. Nanterre : Societe d’Ethnologie, 250 p.
(recenzie de Cătălina TESĂR)
Rachel Humphris. 2019. Home-Land: Romanian Roma, Domestic Spaces and the State. Bristol: Bristol University Press, 240 p.
(recenzie de László FOSZTÓ)
Paloma Gay y Blasco, and Liria Hernandez. 2020. Writing Friendship. A Reciprocal Ethnography. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 189 p.
(recenzie de Ana CHIRIȚOIU)

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