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The Wallachian Gold-Washers
Julieta Rotaru and David Gaunt
2023
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This 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.
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Keywords
- anthropology
- Demography
- Family
- Gypsies
- History
- Roma
- Romania
- Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography
- Society & Social Sciences
- Sociology & anthropology
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