Patrimoniu spiritual şi memorie într-o enclavă bănăţeană
Spiritual heritage and memory in a Banat enclave

Summary/Abstract: The Czech villages from Danube Gorge are still preserving – in the context of dramatic changes in the last decades – remnants of the cultural and spiritual traditions of other times. It is worth noting that “some traditions and customs are still being kept here, whilst on the territory of the motherland these have disappeared a long time ago”. Originally from the Czech Republic, the professor Jaroslav Svoboda has researched the old colonies, and found out, for instance, ballads in which there were hailed heroes unknown to the villagers, known in the Czech Republic however (they were, in fact, characters from the country’s history), even if the respective song has been disappeared a long time ago. The cultural heritage of the Pemi has been preserved almost completely over time, in a wholly different space, gaining endemic properties as well, via the inherent process of acculturation. A special role plays the orality, specific to the less extended communities and in which everything that pertains to culture is perpetuated by speech.

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