The Comparative Interpretation of Rural, Urban and Regional Ethnicity in Romania

Abstract

In different forms which reflect the thematic objectives of anthropologicalresearch, there are several criteria of ethno-cultural belonging (namely language, ethnohistory,territoriality, sociality, economy, ethos and the vision of the world) whichmaterialize ethnicity in its factual and process-related meanings. With respect to thecultural variability of ethnic groups or minorities in Romania, this work seeks todescribe and construe the implications of the empiric and methodological location ofethnicity, in rural, urban and regional contexts, based on the comparative analogicaland homological properties of cultural patterns of behaviour.

Keywords

• ethnic patterns of behaviour
• analogy
• homology
• ethno-cultural variability
• Romania