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• Mesolithic, Neolithic and feudal populations

• Anthropological study of the contemporary Romanian populations, with an emphasis on the impact of the transition to post-communist period.
•  Anthropological aspects regarding the relationships between biological age and chronological age in children and adolescents.
•  Anthropological Atlas of Romania
•  The study of factors influencing the dynamics of growth and development.
•  Historical demography.
•  Aggression and conflict management in humans and nonhuman primates.
•  Nonverbal communication.

• Anthropological methods of evaluating the health status of Romanian population.
•  The facial expression in anthropology from birth to death : a clinical investigation of medical anthropology. Cultural, pathological, and mixed determining factors.
•  Complex anthropological investigations on the adolescent: anthropometric, biochemical, serological, morphological, typological, psychological and socio-economical data, and the correlation between hormonal levels and constitutional features.
•  Biochemical research on populations, with medical implications. 

• Methodological contributions to the study of the inheritance of polifactorical characters (anthropometrical and morpho-physionomic).
•  Bio-medical research on the longevive population
•  Paternity expertise
•  The pathology of dermatoglifs and its medical implications.

• Borderline psychological disturbance, psychopathological vulnerability in urban population, and the psychological fragility in adolescence and young adulthood during the post-communism transitional period in Romania.

• Interdisciplinary studies of electro-physiological anthropology. Correlations between the electro-physiological typology, reactivity to illness and adequate therapy.
•  The evaluation of health through electrophysiological parameters (an original technique of paraclinical investigation).

• Social strategies and mentalities in Romanian villages
• Socio-cultural correlations and morbidity, reflected in the inhabiting patterns of urban population living in blocs of flats.
• Mentality patterns in traditional Romanian villages (collaboration with Ecole de Hautes Etudes en Sciances Sociales, Paris).
• Value orientations among Romanians
• Anthropology of knowledge

• The anthropology of the cultural object.
• Contributions to the hermeneutics of the contemporary cultural object.
• Visual anthropology: the symbolism of matter in Constantin Brancusi's sculpture.
• Symbolic values of iron in the contemporary society.
• Identity as value.
• Human fragility.

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