Tudor SĂLĂGEAN
Muzeul Etnografic al Transilvaniei
The first year of the history of the Cluj Ethnographic Park was a difficult and complex one. It was marked by a promising start, followed by a period of dissapointment caused by the exclusion of Cluj from the list of the Union Celebration venues, which could have been an excellent way to promote the new museum and its goals. The documents kept
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Ion CHERCIU
Institutul de Etnografie și Folclor „Constantin Brăiloiu” al Academiei Române
In this work, the author analyses, from the perspective of the history of the Romanian folk costume and of the Court costume, a photograph from the Collection of the anthropologist Francisc Rainer, entered in the Iconographic Collection of the Romanian Ethnographic Atlas.
The clothing of the group of
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Laura Cristina POP
Muzeul Etnografic al Transilvaniei
The comic is interpreted considering the historical trajectory of its manifestations. Starting with the chroniclers, Hașdeu, Șăineanu, Ispirescu, Pamfile, tried to define the humour, to give name to different comic categories. Ovidiu Bîrlea was the one who classified the comic species of our literary folklore.
We have showed the
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Andrei Flavius PETRUȚ
Brad, jud. Hunedoara
The paper discusses the folk theatre rituals organized around Christmas in the village Luncoiu de Sus, Hunedoara County, Romania. The name of this type of theatre is ”Irod” or ”Irozi” which is derived from the name of the tyrant emperor Herod. Every year, nine teenagers aged between 15 and 24 wear specific costumes and play a series of religious
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Silvestru PETAC
Muzeul Etnografic al Transilvaniei
Being in an anniversary year (90 years since the National Ethnographic Park was founded that bears the name of its founder: Romulus Vuia) and we consider that a good way to render homage to the Romanian ethnographer's personality is to make some observations on a short study from his youth, published by Romulus Vuia in Dacoromania
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Mirela MIRON
Liceul Teoretic „Avram Iancu”, Cluj-Napoca
The field research in this rural community, Mărișel village, Cluj county, took place between 2013-2015, using visual means and structured transgenerational interviews, thus observing the process of oral transmission of narratives. I did not propose the identification of some other meanings to the researched facts, other than those
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Costel CIOANCĂ
Academia Română, Muzeul de Artă Veche Apuseană
It is known that, over time and for various reasons, part of a community chooses, expresses or accentuates a certain status (political, economic, religious, sexual etc.), gradually losing its general-community identity and individualizing one's own. Viewed and perceived as new socio-cultural constructions within the basic
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Pamfil BILŢIU
Baia Mare, Maremureș
Our study, based mainly on field research, aims to address aspects of plague description in the Romanian folklore and, in particular, in the folklore specific to Maramureş area. After placing the plague in the family of anthropomorphized diseases, we recorded the plague epidemics in Maramureş and throughout the country. At the same time, we reproduced the
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Amalia BARBĂ
Master Universitatea Babeș-Bolyai, Cluj-Napoca
This study investigates a funeral rite in the area of Nădlac, Arad county: "Păștițele", the custom of going to the cemetery, at the graves of the deceased relatives, on the first Sunday after Easter and to offer red eggs and colac (a type of braided bread or cake) to the people present in the cemetery. It is a custom competed by
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Emilia JURJIU
Grădiniţa cu Program prelungit Lumea copiilor, Cluj-Napoca
Sprang is an ancient textile method without knots, worked on a set of threads that have been arranged on a frame. This technique used by people for thousands of years was almost forgotten since the beginning of the industrial revolution. The peculiarity of this type of braiding is that you have a mirror image and for every
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