RELIGION, MAGIC AND MODERNIZATION ANTH 440/540 Summer Field Study (Romania) Students are invited to take part in this year's three-week study visit to Bucovina, Romania. In Bucovina, a rural region of Romania, despite modernization, magic and witchcraft do not seem to have disappeared or to be replaced with more “rational” beliefs. Not only have these beliefs not disappeared, but they may employed now more and in fact play an important part, somewhat paradoxically, in how both rural and urban Romania has modernized. In effect, it may well be Romanians have used magic and witchcraft to help make sense out of the modern. Students will carry out a field study of a rural Romanian village. Graduate and undergraduate students from any discipline may apply to attend. The course is designed to build competence and confidence in qualitative research methods, particularly ethnography to publish from data collected in the field. The course is intended to provide students with an analytical toolkit, which they can apply to subsequent projects of their own. This summer we will focus on a number of issues related to the ones described already - While the Romania project this summer focuses on magic and religion practices in small scale, less developed communities, there are any number of related issues which also could be explored. For example these could include ethnic/gender attitudes regarding village level development projects, life and custom (the role modernity and tradition have in village life) One Rutgers PhD student who has been with us to Romania multiple times has put together a Romania webpage. You might want to look at this since it gives a student's perspective on the class. http://www.onehandlaughing.com/viscri

ANTH 440/540 Summer Field Study (Romania)
Students are invited to take part in this year's three-week study visit to Bucovina,
Romania. In Bucovina, a rural region of Romania, despite modernization, magic and witchcraft do not seem to have disappeared or to be replaced with more “rational” beliefs. Not only have these beliefs not disappeared, but they may employed now more and in fact play an important part, somewhat paradoxically, in how both rural and urban Romania has modernized.  In effect, it may well be Romanians have used magic and witchcraft to help make sense out of the modern.

Students will carry out a field study of a rural Romanian village. Graduate and undergraduate students from any discipline may apply to attend. The course is designed to build competence and confidence in qualitative research methods, particularly ethnography to publish from data collected in the field. The course is intended to provide students with an analytical toolkit, which they can apply to subsequent projects of their own.
This summer we will focus on a number of issues related to the ones described already - While the Romania project this summer focuses on magic and religion practices in small scale, less developed communities, there are any number of related issues which also could be explored. For example these could include ethnic/gender attitudes regarding village level development projects, life and custom (the role modernity and tradition have in village life) One Rutgers PhD student who has been with us to Romania multiple times has put together a Romania webpage.
You might want to look at this since it gives a student's perspective on the class.
http://www.onehandlaughing.com/viscri