The main focus of Ewa Kocójs research has become a tale of an immured woman and Master Manole – popular in Romania but also found in many regions of Central-Eastern and Southern Europe. The present analysis was inspired by the author’s field research conducted in the Curtea de Argeș monastery, where she has observed the existence of two realities of ideas connected to that space, in which two women’s devotion constitutes the canvas for the archaic beliefs about the immured...
Ewa Kocój znajduje się w awangardzie polskich intelektualistów badaczy przybliżających polskim czytelnikom rumuńskie oblicze kulturowe takim, jakim ono jest. Z jej publikacji emanuje ogromna wiedza, poparta bardzo ważnym doświadczeniem empirycznym, będącym pokłosiem kilku dekad eksploracji terenowej wielu części Rumunii. Aktywność badawcza antropolożki pozwoliła dogłębnie poznać obserwowanych ludzi, zrozumieć ich mentalność, wyjaśnić sensy, jakie nadają otaczającej ich rzecz...
Cultural heritage is one of the concepts that have made an unusual career in the 20th century. The cultural codes associated with it – senses, meanings, and ideas, characteristic for specific local or national communities, and the tangible and intangible assets, became a space for new fascinations as well as scientific, regional, social and amateur exploration. These multiple searches for the truth showed that the essence of heritage is portrayed in the choice transforming th...
