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People Who Live Like a Hundred Years Ago: Unlearning (?) a Borrowed Gaze

Oana Borlea-Stancioi |

As a social-anthropologist researching perceptions of remoteness in rural Romania, the object of my research concerns remote villages which have been described as places where people still live like a hundred years ago. They can certainly give that impression as I have also experienced in some of my early encounters. In the following, I want […]

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