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    STUDIA GEOGRAPHIA - Issue no. 1 / 2008  
         
  Article:   THE FEATURES OF THE MENTAL SPACE IN THE LAND OF THE MOŢILOR.

Authors:  C. N. BOŢAN.
 
       
         
  Abstract:  The Features of the Mental Space in the Land of the Moţilor. Romania is characterized of a significant number of ethnographic mental spaces associated to the "land"-type regional entities: Maramureş, Oaş, Năsăud, Haţeg, Vrancea, and of the Moţi, etc. The analysis and the interpretation of the issues are not easy. This is because the region is not placed in a depression, but in the mountains. So, it is unique among the other "lands" of Romania. The mental space of the Land of the Moţi is an open sue and this is reflected into many of the moţi`s attributes similar to those of the people in the regions they traveled for ensuring a secure living. My paper approaches the following fundamental issues: the limits of the mental space in the Land of the Moţi; the genesis factors of the mental space (the landforms, the woods, the gold ore, the social and historical conditions, etc); the main "products" of the inhabitants` mentality (ethnography, toponymy, etc); the main types of habitat, etc.  
         
     
         
         
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