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dc.contributor.authorRotaru, Julieta
dc.contributor.authorGaunt, David
dc.date.accessioned2023-10-09T12:26:47Z
dc.date.available2023-10-09T12:26:47Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.identifierONIX_20231009_9783657790388_39
dc.identifier.urihttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/76651
dc.description.abstractThis is the first monograph on the history of the Rudari people of Romania and the first mapping of their settlements. The Rudari are a population which has traditionally inhabited the Balkan area and much of Central Europe. Many of them do not know the Romani language but speak Romanian dialects and today make a living out of carving wooden household items, although their Slavic name alludes to mining. Indeed, the Rudari were for centuries gold-prospectors and gold-washers working for the Crown of Wallachia and were administrated as slaves by a monastery situated on the auriferous Olt river. The authors have reconstructed the fascinating history of this ethnic group for a period of 500 years until the 19th century when gold-panning went in decline due to the exhaustion of the reserves of alluvial gold.
dc.languageEnglish
dc.subject.otherdemography
dc.subject.otherfamily
dc.subject.otherGypsies
dc.subject.otherhistory
dc.subject.otherRoma
dc.subject.otherRomania
dc.titleThe Wallachian Gold-Washers
dc.title.alternativeUnlocking the Golden Past of the Rudari Woodworkers
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.30965/9783657790388
oapen.relation.isPublishedByaf16fd4b-42a1-46ed-82e8-c5e880252026
oapen.relation.isFundedBy598f9735-72d1-48f7-aeb9-c9729323b380
oapen.relation.isFundedBy9d4ff031-5927-4718-824c-3d06445ae1e3
oapen.relation.isbn9783657790388
oapen.relation.isbn9783506790385
oapen.imprintSchöningh
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oapen.grant.projectMapping the Roma Community on Nineteenth Century Wallachia
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