The name ‘Eliznik was based on an amalgamation of the authors’ names which they had previously used for dance teaching booklets and notes.
This website has two parts: the reference ‘fixed pages’ and the newer Blog. These are interlinked through the context dependent menus on the left sidebar, so posts will have links to related reference pages, and references pages will have links to posts.
This Blog is divided into three subject areas:
- Ethnography – our continued research and interest in the customs, music and dancing in the Balkans
- Academic – subjects from the perspective of academic study
- Photos – the latest uploads
History
The “Eliznik” web pages (www.eliznik.org.uk/), an English language website based in the UK covering Romanian music, dance, and costume, were first uploaded to the worldwide web in May 1999. Since that time the site has expanded to over 700 pages.[1]
The main sources used were Anca Giurchescu and Sunni Bloland’s book on Romanian Traditional Dance, Tiberiu Alexandru’s Romanian Folk Music, and Petrescu and Secoșan’s ‘Romanian Folk Costume’.
References
- Mellish, Liz 2006. "‘Doing’ ethnography in virtual space. The experience of running an English language website on Romanian ethnography based in the UK." Mihai Fifor (editor), Symposia - Caiete de Etnologie si Antropologie 2006 Craiova.