Open AccessCollective Imaginaries and National Identities: The Encyclopedia of Romanian Imaginaries
Author(s) -
Corin Braga
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
caietele echinox
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1582-960X
DOI - 10.24193/cechinox.2021.41.09
Subject(s) - romanian , encyclopedia , identity (music) , sociology , originality , cultural identity , perspective (graphical) , anthropology , aesthetics , linguistics , social science , art , philosophy , visual arts , qualitative research , negotiation
"This paper presents how The Encyclopaedia of Romanian Imaginaries. Historical Patrimony and Cultural-Linguistic Identities (Polirom Editing House, 2020) reflects the Romanian cultural identity. The five volumes provide a synoptic perspective on the cultural inheritance and spiritual identities of Romania. Guided by the powerful and innovative concept of social and cultural imaginaries, it uses multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary methodologies in order to highlight the main domains of Romanian collective representations. The scientific key concepts, which ensure the originality of the approach, are imagination studies (“recherches sur l’imaginaire”), semantic basins, linguistic fields, image constellations, and fractal identity."