Valentin Arapu
Biographic Data
| ID | 4047168 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Valentin Arapu |
| GIVEN NAMES | Valentin |
| FAMILY NAME | Arapu |
| SIGNATURE | ARAPU V |
| AFFILIATIONS | Institutul Patrimoniului Cultural |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1103-9758 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Fântâna în contextul unor percepții ecologice, sanitare și etnoculturale
Schimbările climatice din ultimele decenii, marcate de încălzirea globală, accentuează din ce în ce mai pronunțat rolul surselor de apă pentru existența omenirii. Fântâna reprezintă o sursă de apă potabilă din cele mai vechi timpuri până în zilele noastre. În esența sa, construcția și structura fântânii s-a păstrat aceeași pe parcurs de secole și milenii, fiind modernizată doar partea tehnică de extragere a apei din adâncimi. Viața omului este co…
Fântânile din satul Puhoi, raionul Ialoveni, în contextul patrimoniului cultural material și imaterial local (aspecte etnoculturale)
În spațiul românesc, din cele mai vechi timpuri, oamenii valorificau sursele de apă, făcându-le accesibile și comode pentru viață prin construcția fântânilor, amenajarea cișmelelor și izvoarelor. În fiecare localitate își desfășurau activitatea meșterii fântânari care au învățat această meserie prin transmiterea cunoștințelor și deprinderilor necesare din tată-n fiu. Anume așa o stare de lucruri am constatat-o în satul Puhoi, raionul Ialoveni, lo…
"Sergiu Suvac. "Brănești, un sat din Codrii Orheiului
Culegerea de studii „Probleme sensibile și controversate ale societății contemporane” cuprinde materialele Conferinței științifice naționale cu participare internațională, organizată la 25-26 octombrie 2024, de Catedra de Istorie și Științe Sociale a Facultății de Filologie și Istorie, Școala Doctorală „Istorie. Patrimoniu cultural. Modernitate” din cadrul UPS „Ion Creangă” din Chișinău. Lucrarea recent a văzut lumina tiparului și îi are ca coord…
The well in the Romanian value system
While passing through or staying for a longer period in Moldova and Muntenia, foreign travelers of the 19th century left behind historically and ethnoculturally significant works for their descendants. When carrying out various diplomatic, religious, scientific, traveling and research missions, H. F. Desprez, Ü. Sándor, W. von Kotzebue, L. I. Pfeiffer, J. D. F. Neigebaur, J. H. A. Ubicini, R. Walsh, and N. K. Giers described numerous aspects of t…
Unbegotten water” – magic remedy, springing from the well of Jordan
In Romanian folk medicine, unbegotten water was used as a magic remedy to treat illnesses and soul troubles. The sources of unbegotten water were clean springs, flowing waters, morning dew and Jordan’s fountain, the last one having this quality due to the sanctification of the waters on Epiphany, the tradition being also called Jordan (6/19 January). On this day all wells, houses and everything around them, and graves, were sprinkled with holy wa…
The water well and the well sinker
In traditional perceptions, the water well was seen primarily as a source of drinking water, a source of life-giving water for humans and animals in the household. The word fântână is of Latin origin, with its root word fons (pl. fontis), meaning spring, origin, beginning. The technical construction of the well consisted of a series of components and stages to be carried out by the well sinker, assisted by the villagers involved in the activity. …
Enchantresses and Enchanters Through the Personalizing of “Magical Agents
The personalized interdisciplinary approach to the enchantresses and enchanters as “magical agents” is intended to highlight the imagological aspects of their lives and work. Multiple stereotypes have become entrenched in society towards enchantresses and enchanters, many of them more related to people’s imaginations than to concrete historical realities. In Romania’s past, the number of enchantresses and enchanters in each locality was quite hig…
Corruption and confrontation of the plague in folklore
In Romanian folklore, the personified Plague has the image of an evil creature that devours people without mercy, eating them literally. The demonic face of the plague, with its skeletal appearance in iconographic art, comes to feed the phobias of people, frightened by the fatal weapons of the plague: sword, scythe or sickle. Two diametrically opposed perceptions of the impact of the Plague on people's lives persist in folklore sources. According…
Plague – ”The Turkish disease
The article addresses the issue of the traditional Romanian perception of the plague as ”Turkish disease” and presents relevant historical, theological, ethnological and epidemiological information. This perception is based on the memory of the frequent wars waged by the Ottomans on Romanian territory; wars during which contagious diseases were recurrent, and implicitly the plague. In historiography, the invocation of the plague epidemics in the …
Bats and diseases in the context of the Sars-CoV-2 pandemic and magic medicine practices
The pandemic caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus has multiple unknown sides, various hypotheses regarding the causes of this plague being launched. One of the hypotheses, circulating both in science and in the media, concerns a series of animals, carriers of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, subsequently transmitted through other animals to humans. Bats are among the possible mammals that are targeted in such contamination, but there is no clear evidence in this …
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Plague – ”The Turkish disease
The article addresses the issue of the traditional Romanian perception of the plague as ”Turkish disease” and presents relevant historical, theological, ethnological and epidemiological information. This perception is based on the memory of the frequent wars waged by the Ottomans on Romanian territory; wars during which contagious diseases were recurrent, and implicitly the plague. In historiography, the invocation of the plague epidemics in the …
Bats and diseases in the context of the Sars-CoV-2 pandemic and magic medicine practices
The pandemic caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus has multiple unknown sides, various hypotheses regarding the causes of this plague being launched. One of the hypotheses, circulating both in science and in the media, concerns a series of animals, carriers of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, subsequently transmitted through other animals to humans. Bats are among the possible mammals that are targeted in such contamination, but there is no clear evidence in this …
Corruption and confrontation of the plague in folklore
In Romanian folklore, the personified Plague has the image of an evil creature that devours people without mercy, eating them literally. The demonic face of the plague, with its skeletal appearance in iconographic art, comes to feed the phobias of people, frightened by the fatal weapons of the plague: sword, scythe or sickle. Two diametrically opposed perceptions of the impact of the Plague on people's lives persist in folklore sources. According…
Enchantresses and Enchanters Through the Personalizing of “Magical Agents
The personalized interdisciplinary approach to the enchantresses and enchanters as “magical agents” is intended to highlight the imagological aspects of their lives and work. Multiple stereotypes have become entrenched in society towards enchantresses and enchanters, many of them more related to people’s imaginations than to concrete historical realities. In Romania’s past, the number of enchantresses and enchanters in each locality was quite hig…
Unbegotten water” – magic remedy, springing from the well of Jordan
In Romanian folk medicine, unbegotten water was used as a magic remedy to treat illnesses and soul troubles. The sources of unbegotten water were clean springs, flowing waters, morning dew and Jordan’s fountain, the last one having this quality due to the sanctification of the waters on Epiphany, the tradition being also called Jordan (6/19 January). On this day all wells, houses and everything around them, and graves, were sprinkled with holy wa…
The water well and the well sinker
In traditional perceptions, the water well was seen primarily as a source of drinking water, a source of life-giving water for humans and animals in the household. The word fântână is of Latin origin, with its root word fons (pl. fontis), meaning spring, origin, beginning. The technical construction of the well consisted of a series of components and stages to be carried out by the well sinker, assisted by the villagers involved in the activity. …
The well in the Romanian value system
While passing through or staying for a longer period in Moldova and Muntenia, foreign travelers of the 19th century left behind historically and ethnoculturally significant works for their descendants. When carrying out various diplomatic, religious, scientific, traveling and research missions, H. F. Desprez, Ü. Sándor, W. von Kotzebue, L. I. Pfeiffer, J. D. F. Neigebaur, J. H. A. Ubicini, R. Walsh, and N. K. Giers described numerous aspects of t…
Fântâna în contextul unor percepții ecologice, sanitare și etnoculturale
Schimbările climatice din ultimele decenii, marcate de încălzirea globală, accentuează din ce în ce mai pronunțat rolul surselor de apă pentru existența omenirii. Fântâna reprezintă o sursă de apă potabilă din cele mai vechi timpuri până în zilele noastre. În esența sa, construcția și structura fântânii s-a păstrat aceeași pe parcurs de secole și milenii, fiind modernizată doar partea tehnică de extragere a apei din adâncimi. Viața omului este co…
Fântânile din satul Puhoi, raionul Ialoveni, în contextul patrimoniului cultural material și imaterial local (aspecte etnoculturale)
În spațiul românesc, din cele mai vechi timpuri, oamenii valorificau sursele de apă, făcându-le accesibile și comode pentru viață prin construcția fântânilor, amenajarea cișmelelor și izvoarelor. În fiecare localitate își desfășurau activitatea meșterii fântânari care au învățat această meserie prin transmiterea cunoștințelor și deprinderilor necesare din tată-n fiu. Anume așa o stare de lucruri am constatat-o în satul Puhoi, raionul Ialoveni, lo…
"Sergiu Suvac. "Brănești, un sat din Codrii Orheiului
Culegerea de studii „Probleme sensibile și controversate ale societății contemporane” cuprinde materialele Conferinței științifice naționale cu participare internațională, organizată la 25-26 octombrie 2024, de Catedra de Istorie și Științe Sociale a Facultății de Filologie și Istorie, Școala Doctorală „Istorie. Patrimoniu cultural. Modernitate” din cadrul UPS „Ion Creangă” din Chișinău. Lucrarea recent a văzut lumina tiparului și îi are ca coord…
History (5 works) · History (5 works) · Archaeology (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Ancient history (3 works) · Ethnology (3 works) · Folklore (3 works) · Plague (disease (3 works) · Romanian (3 works)