Cercetarea sărbătorilor de iarnă prin anchetele indirecte de la sfârşitul secolului al XIX-lea şi începutul secolului XX. Analiză de caz: localităţi din judeţul Bacău
Research on winter holidays through indirect surveys at the end of the XIXth and early XXth centuries. Case analysis: localities in Bacău County

Summary/Abstract: The present article aims to render visible what has been written, as well as in what manner, about winter holidays at the end of the 19th century and the interwar period in villages from Bacău county. In regard to Romanian folklore, the method of inquiry with the help of correspondents appears to be quasi-synchronous with the European projects. The questionnaires B.P. Hasdeu (1884) and Nicolae Densuşianu (1895) are the first attempts to systematically investigate the Romanian traditional culture in its national dimension, although the interest in it was subordinated to philology or history. Even if viewed from the present, the rendered answers may appear to the reader as brief, they nevertheless reveal their complexity only when we relate them to the context of their elaboration. The institutional preoccupation for the completion/representation of a corpus of Romanian folklore – already depicted in its essential lines through the questionnaires elaborated by B.P. Hasdeu and N. Densuşianu, through the great monographic projects coordinated by the Romanian Academy – led Ion Muşlea to develop and distribute, between the years 1930-1942, a series of fourteen questionnaires, and six additional unnumbered ones, as well as five leaflets, on specific issues. Through these working tools, it was aimed to attest and document, in the localities from all Romanian regions, the calendar celebrations and customs of family life, mythology, beliefs and magic practices, domestic rites, as well as some common law issues. If B.P. Hasdeu and Nicolae Densuşianu used indirect inquiry as a method of providing a documentary basis for one of his own works (Etymologicum Magnum Romaniae and Dacia preistorică), Ion Muşlea transformed this method into an institution, capable of documenting the works of folklorists from all around Europe, who are interested in a given subject

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