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Community Networks and Cultural Practices in Twentieth-Century Romania
Paper-Based Cultures in the Writings of a Catholic Priest
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2023
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Community Networks and Cultural Practices in Twentieth-Century Romania: Paper-Based Cultures in the Writings of a Catholic Priest presents an anthropological interpretation of 2,400 documents left behind by a Hungarianized Swabian Catholic priest living in Romania during one of the Eastern European dictatorships of the twentieth century. This book addresses what the pre-digital paper-based culture was like in Eastern Europe from the point of view of the protagonist, a Catholic priest, who lived in a predominantly Orthodox country. The author calls the twentieth century the era of the typewriter. Mária Szikszai’s questions refer to both the epoch and the micro-universe of these people. What was the world like in which the protagonist and the other people he was in contact with lived? How did they live their daily lives? How did they make important decisions? What pains, hopes, and joys did they have? What did they have to say and what were they silent about? This volume presents an anthropological incursion into the life of an Eastern European man who lived almost throughout the twentieth century, during which time he tried to document the era he was living in.
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Edition
1/2023
Copyright Year
2023
ISBN-Print
978-1-6669-2324-7
ISBN-Online
978-1-6669-2325-4
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
310
Product Type
Monograph
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A Note on Translation No access
Chapter One. The Research No access Pages 1 - 24
Chapter Two. Contextualization No access Pages 25 - 42
Chapter Three. Ethnic and National Identity No access Pages 43 - 50
Chapter Four. Remembrance as a Cultural Construction Site No access Pages 51 - 56
Chapter Six. The Correspondence No access Pages 57 - 84
Chapter Seven. Contacts No access Pages 85 - 162
Chapter Eight. The Bygone World No access Pages 163 - 288
Chapter Nine. Closing Remarks on What We Will Never Know No access Pages 289 - 292
