Miorita by Ernest H. Latham Jr.7/6/2023 At that time, I was studying Romanian near Dupont Circle in downtown Washington and preparing for my assignment that summer as the cultural attaché in the American Embassy in Bucharest. The Mioriţa first came to my attention in the late spring of 1983. The Mioriţa: An Introduction in the Form of a Memoir He provides an introduction that guides the reader into the deeper meaning and importance of the Miori?a. Alexandru Husar was a distinguished professor of Romanian literature at the University of Ia?i. Ernest Latham, who conceived of the exhibit as American cultural attachÉ in Bucharest in the 1980s, contributes an introduction which recounts his personal involvement with the Miori?a, the exhibit, and the new English translation developed to caption the photographs. The photographer, Laurence Salzmann, made the photographs in 1981 while on a fellowship in Poiana Sibiului, a small village of transhumance shepherds in the Carpathian Mountains of Romania. By combining the insights of an American and a Romanian scholar with a vision of Romanian pastoral life developed by a leading American photographer, the reader is introduced to one of the most complicated and elusive cultural icons in European civilization. This book by words and photographs illustrates and explains the central role of the ballad Miori?a in Romanian culture.
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