Pamfil BILŢIU
Baia Mare
pamfilbiltiu@yahoo.com
Our study, focused on repetitive investigations in the field, is reserved for the complex approach of celebrating the first ploughman who starts working the land for the first time in the villages of Șurdești, Cetătele and Bontăieni, where the custom was performed in complex forms, consisting of the very old rites and ceremonial acts.
After making references to the beginnings and the continuity of agriculture in Romania and to the presence of the custom in several regions of the country, I dealt extensively with the custom in the three localities of our research, emphasizing the differences from ont locality to another.
Our study ends with the causes of the disappearance of the custom and the simplified reiteration by the Creation Center in Șurdești.
Keywords: ploughman, rite, custom, actants, ceremonial, sequence
