Ion TALOȘ
Köln, Germania
Dans le présent article, nous nous proposons de montrer que les recherches consacrées à l’oralité roumaine représentent une contribution indispensable au patrimoine culturel national, à côté de l’archéologie, de l’histoire ou de la philologie. Proches l’une de l’autre, ces trois disciplines partagent parfois certaines méthodes d’analyse, poursuivant en fin de compte un
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Tudor SĂLĂGEAN
Muzeul Etnografic al Transilvaniei
Analyzing the historical, juridical and ethnographical information about treasures, the author points out at the links between the treasure legends and the mythologies of the Otherworld. The treasures, in their most archaic identifiable aspects, are a part of the Otherworld reality. The access to it is regulated by a system of rules governed by
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Vlad JURCĂ
Școala gimnazială Șimand, jud. Arad
The village Vasile Goldis is located in the eastern part of Zarand’s Depression. It is a village that belongs to the commune Beliu. Over time, this beautiful place suffered lots of changes regarding its name. At the beginning its name was Mocirla, then Lunca Teuz, ultimately ending up with the name of the head (leader) who led the Great Union
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Costel CIOANCĂ
Academia Română, Muzeul de Artă Veche Apuseană
The imaginary, through the totality of beliefs, speaking about the stage of the oldness is well emphasized and structured for a good contouring and phenomenological reception of the symbols of intimacy from the Romanian fantastic fairy tale, the subject claiming a particular approach. Representing a
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Pamfil BILŢIU, Maria BILŢIU
Baia Mare, Maramureș
Our paper, based on the available published material, aims to remedy a void of ethnological research, Marțolea, although it is a complex mythological being well represented in our folklore, it is briefly researched till nowadays.
In the first part we present the spreading of this mythological being in the Romanian space, to which we added
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Pamfil BILŢIU, Maria BILȚIU
Baia Mare, Maramureș
Our work is based on the material provided by the answers to Ion Muşlea's questionnaires on the funeral in Maramureş, which raises a special interest to the researcher due to the rich ritual and ceremonial acts, beliefs and superstitions that give complexity, individuality and also the status of regional variant to the funeral in this area.
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Cristian MICU
Muzeul Etnografic al Transilvaniei, Cluj-Napoca
The villages on Argeș river upper valley, some of them having a population of Transylvanian origin, have developed a type of shepherding determined by specific spatial coordinates: the boundary of the settlements is relatively reduces, the arable lands occupies small areas and there are no crops alternating with the parcels left to
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Teofil IVANCIUC
Sighetu-Marmaţiei, Maramureș
The semantron (“toaca” in Romanian language), the oldest musical instrument being in use since Neolithic and documented 4000 years ago, has entered in the Christian Church during the first centuries A.D., surviving in the Orthodox Church until today. In the Romanian History, the semantron is clearly attested since 17 century.
About the semantron are
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Andrei FLORIAN
Universitatea de Artă și Design Cluj-Napoca
The article presents briefly, in a personal vision, the execution of a public monumental work, with a religious theme, namely The Wayside Cross, with a step-by-step description of the phases of design and execution of the necessary components resulting from the project. The entire work is realized in a contemporary, personal
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Ion Cherciu
Institutul de Etnografie și Folclor „Constantin Brăiloiu” al Academiei Române
One of the great challenges of the Romanian ethnography after the union of Transylvania with Romania was - in parallel with the delimitation of the main ethnographic areas - the formation of a typology of the Romanian folk costume. Due to the specific history of this great province, this approach
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