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Accepted Paper:
Changing rurality. Rurality determined by the vicinity of the metropolitan area in Mureş county, Romania
András Vajda
(Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania)
Paper short abstract:
The aim of the paper is to explore the present and the recent past of Romanian rural society, and analysing the coexistence, interlocking, and conflicts of the traditional and the newly manifesting cultural behaviours in the past decade.
Paper long abstract:
The basic goal of the presentation is to explore the present and the recent past (which is preserved by the memory of the individuals, along with the one that can be reconstructed on the basis of personal documents) of Romanian rural society, and analysing the coexistence, interlocking, and conflicts of the archaic/traditional (but nevertheless continually changing) and the formerly inexistent, newly manifesting (e.g. online) cultural behaviours in the past decade. The paper models the forms or rurality specific for the 21st century and offers a new, comprehensive frame of interpretation for the ethnographic approach to rurality and to the understanding of the recently emerging rural attitudes