Un exerciţiu de antropologie culturală: satele româneşti din dreapta Tisei sau „România Mică”
An exercise on cultural anthropology: Romanian villages on the right bank of Tisa, „Little Romania”

Summary/Abstract: While surrounded by strong Ukrainian communities representing majority, Romanian villages in the Ukraine Trans-Carpatia have activated along history some very well defined mechanisms to guard their cultural identity which have to be activated today as well. Historically speaking, the Ukraine Maramures villages have been recorded in the XIV century and are an exceptional example of ethnical and cultural survival, if we consider the fact that severals empires and administration have walked upon their territory: the Hungarian Kingdom, The Transilvania Principate, The Austrian Empire, The Austrian-Hungarian Monarchy, Czechoslovakia and the USSR. For starting a sistematic field research in the Ukraine Maramures, our option for an athropology which would put to value the ethnical folkloric heritage (maybe under the shape of a village album) was combined with certain general minority anthropology approaches. While starting from bibliographic data but also from information taken on the field, we tried to outline the largest Romanian communities, as a basis for a well founded minority anthropology.

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