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A simple use ? A custom fixed, regulated, and sometimes codified by courts and texts ? A ceremonial that confers solemnity and magnificence to customary acts ?
INTRODUCTION
FOREIGN LOOK, INNER LOOK
TECHNIQUES, EMPIRICAL KNOWLEDGES
TERRITORY AND MEANING OF THE PLACE
KINSHIP AND SOCIAL ORGANISATION
CUSTOM, CEREMONIAL AND RITE
1 A society in representation
2 Rumanian wedding
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Bulgarian wedding

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Funerary rites
TALE, LEGEND, ART OF NARRATION
EPIC, DEPHTS OF HISTORY
WHAT IS CALLED VAMPIRE
IMAGINE AND THINK THE NEXT WORLD
The population gathers around the place de dance at Sirbi, Maramures (Rumania).
 
I had before the eyes the local society of Sirbi in Maramures in 1973, which paraded every Sunday on the main place, showing to the observer its division in age and sex groups, clothing emblems, signs of recognition, disjunctions and conjunctions between parents and relatives, permitted and prohibited spouses. But this collective parade was nothing like an inorganized whirl or alternate strolls which are so frequent in places and streets of Mediterranean cities. Its attention was entirely directed towards a significant place and a significant time for the ceremony of the day, the place of dance where young people were to meet, not mutely, sighing or grumbling, like dancers in modern discotheques with excess sound system, but in joyfully shouted interpellations, the strigaturi, or in songs and texts fixed as if life and opera were as one. A simple and ordinary ceremonial ? A great ritual ? I could not determin it at once.  next
    J.C.: Le Feu Vivant, la parenté et ses rituels dans les Carpates, Paris, PUF, 1994, pp.18-19
   
 
 
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