Ileana POP-NEMEȘ,
Centrul Cultural Sighetu Marmației
ileanapopnemes@yahoo.com
Maramureş is a unique destination, located in the heart of Europe, which has carefully preserved the culture, traditions and lifestyle of the peasant from the past. The region is the place of a testament to the traditional, romantic era of simplicity and moral values that we read or hear from our grandparents today.
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Augustin MOCANU
Slobozia, jud. Ialomiţa
augustinmocanu@gmail.com
The Romanian folk lyric gives the interested reader a complex, interesting and all‑encompassing image of the issue of love, which, through richness, variety and artistic sophistication, fully confirms the native endowment of the anonymous creators and reveals the virtues, delicacy and soulful beauty specific to the Romanian
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Costel CIOANCĂ
Academia Română, Muzeul de Artă Veche Apuseană
kishinn@gmail.com
The idea of a primordial language, spoken / understood by both man and animals, a secret language to be given by consecration / initiation only to the chosenone and which offers the initiate a higher type of knowledge, fascinated. Presentin the myths, stories and literature of the world, such a language
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Pamfil BILŢIU, Maria BILŢIU
Baia Mare
pamfilbiltiu@yahoo.com
Our research is focused on the answers of the correspondents from Maramureş to Ion Muşlea’s questionnaires, which provide us with information about two categories of mythological beings, some complex, and the second group of lesser importance. In our research, we reserved a wider space for complex mythological beings: the Forest Girl
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Pamfil BILŢIU
Baia Mare
pamfilbiltiu@yahoo.com
Focused on our field research, the present study is about the research of birth customs in several localities of Ţara Lăpuşului, an ethnographic area of particular interest, due to the archaicity and conservatism that are specific to it.
In the first part, I dealt with the prenatal period, in which we emphasized the ritesrelated to the
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Bogdan STANCIU-GORUN
Școala Doctorală Studii de Populație și Istoria Minorităților
Universitatea Babes-Bolyai
b.stanciu.gorun@gmail.com
This article aims to reconstruct the historical route of a lower nobility family, from the first appearance in history to the beginning of the modern era. It is the Sorban/Serban family, with two branches, in the north-western part of Transylvania (in the
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Marius LAKATOS-IANCU
Școala Doctorală Studii de Populație și Istoria Minorităților
Universitatea Babes-Bolyai
locondo@yahoo.com
This study aims to address a series of cultural values representative of the Rroma from the perspective of traditional trades, inherited or practiced and which define their ethnic identity.
It is too unlikely to know exactly who and what the Rroma were due to the lack
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Laura TROȘAN
Muzeul Etnografic al Transilvaniei
laura72_trosan@yahoo.com
The antimension is a consecrated liturgical textile object, it is kept on an altar, and without it the Divine Liturgy cannot be celebrated. The antimension is made of a rectangular linen or silk cloth, decorated with the representation of the Entombment of Christ and of the four Evangelists, in various printing techniques
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Maria TONCA, Mioara-Mihaela SÎNTIUAN
Muzeul Etnografic al Transilvaniei
mariajuravle80@yahoo.com
sintiuan@yahoo.com
The paper describes the state of conservation of a Lipovan icon, with the theme “Our Lady of the Sign”, presenting the degradation forms, and also describes the restoration stages, characterized by specific techniques and materials. The icon dates from the beginning of 19th
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Monica CRISTIAN
Muzeul Etnografic al Transilvaniei
monicailies84@gmail.com
The cupboard is one of several staple pieces that are found in the traditional households across Romania. The 19th century cupboard was acquired by the Transylvanian Museum of Ethnography from Trip village, Satu Mare County in 2002. Long before its acquisition, the artefact was covered with a thick layer of paint which
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