Several Consideration Regarding the Fair on Găina Mountain Cover Image

Câteva consideraţii cu privire la târgul de pe Muntele Găina
Several Consideration Regarding the Fair on Găina Mountain

Author(s): Sorin Sabău
Subject(s): Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology
Published by: Editura Palatul Culturii
Keywords: borough; mountain; „crişeni” (inhabitants of villages along the river Criş); „moţi” (inhabitants of Ţara Moţilor, a region in the Apuseni Mountains)

Summary/Abstract: The fair takes place on the mountain named Găina (Hen) and is the most important popular feast in the area where Apuseni and Bihor Mountains interfere. In addition to a quick overview of this course of events, the article proposes to call into question and debate some of the problems less covered up until the present time, such as: the origin of the mountain’s name - Găina, the dates on which the feast has been organized, the existence of a “demarcation line” between participants from the regions neighbouring Găina Mountain and their positioning on the eve of and during the feast

  • Issue Year: 2015
  • Issue No: 15
  • Page Range: 341-354
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: Romanian