Miorita - Latham, Ernest
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This book uses both words and photographs to illustrate the central role that the ballad, the Miorita, plays in Romanian culture. By combining the insights of an American and a Romanian scholar with a vision of Romanian pastoral life developed by a leading American photographer, the reader is introduced to one of the most complicated and elusive cultural icons in European civilization. It is, however, one that continues to permeate Romanian culture and offers, to those who take the time to study it, an approach to life which will resonate closely with much modern experience and understanding.…mehr

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This book uses both words and photographs to illustrate the central role that the ballad, the Miorita, plays in Romanian culture. By combining the insights of an American and a Romanian scholar with a vision of Romanian pastoral life developed by a leading American photographer, the reader is introduced to one of the most complicated and elusive cultural icons in European civilization. It is, however, one that continues to permeate Romanian culture and offers, to those who take the time to study it, an approach to life which will resonate closely with much modern experience and understanding. This publishing event has it origins in an American photographic exhibit intended for a Romanian audience in 1986 when the Ceausescu's communist regime was rejecting most American cultural offerings. The American hoped at that time to make a gesture of support and encouragement to the Romanians by this act of homage to one of their major cultural icons. In any event, the communist Council of Cultu
This book by words and photographs illustrates and explains the central role of the ballad Miori?a in Romanian culture. By combining the insights of an American and a Romanian scholar with a vision of Romanian pastoral life developed by a leading American photographer, the reader is introduced to one of the most complicated and elusive cultural icons in European civilization. It is, however, one that continues to permeate Romanian culture and offers, to those who take the time to study it, an approach to life which will resonate closely with modern experience and understanding.This album benefits from two introductions, one by an American specialist in Romanian studies and one by a Romanian professor of Romanian literature, providing different perspectives on the Miori?a, to ensure that the reader will understand why the ballad is central to Romanian consciousness and why its message is of great seriousness and insight for humanity in general.The photographer, Laurence Salzmann, made the photographs in 1981 while on a fellowship in Poiana Sibiului, a small village of transhumance shepherds in the Carpathian Mountains of Romania. Dr. Ernest Latham, who conceived of the exhibit as American cultural attach¿n Bucharest in the 1980s, contributes an introduction which recounts his personal involvement with the Miori?a, the exhibit, and the new English translation developed to caption the photographs. Alexandru Husar was a distinguished professor of Romanian literature at the University of Ia?i. He provides an introduction that guides the reader into the deeper meaning and importance of the Miori?a.
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Autorenporträt
Ernest H. Latham, Jr. is an American historian specialized on modern Romania. After service as an officer in the U. S. Coast Guard, he entered the American Foreign Service. His early assignments were in the Middle East but thereafter serving in Central and Eastern Europe, including the years 1983-7 in Bucharest, Romania, as the American cultural attaché. After retiring in 1993 he returned to Romania as a Fulbright professor for two years in 2000. His doctorate is from the University of Bucharest.