Tradiția în contexte istorice de liminalitate. Nunta basarabenilor deportați în documente și mărturii de istorie orală
Tradition within the historical contexts of liminality. The wedding of deporties in documents and the oral history witnesses

Summary/Abstract: The study analyzes phenomenon of the traditional Romanian wedding in the contextof dramatic changes of the middle of the 20th century, especially of those produced in the communitiesof Bessarabians deported by the totalitarian-communist regime of the Moldavian SSR and imposed,between 1941–1956, to stay in the remote regions of the Soviet Union. The use of original sources –oral history documents, illustrative testimonies (photographs, journals, letters), papers from the familyarchives – and identifying the main narrative themes relevant to the survivors’ memories allowedthe author to elucidate the popular customs and representations under the conditions of forced exile.Beyond continuity at the level of wedding practices and attributes of ritualized communication, thefunctions and role of its main actors, the study brings to the attention of researchers the semanticruptures and the cultural transformations produced in the nuptial tradition of deported Bessarabians.The ideological prescriptions of the totalitarian-communist regime with regard to the marriage of thedescendants of the „enemies of people” and the social, cultural and economic circumstances in whichthe Bessarabian deportees in Siberia and Kazakhstan have affected the ethno-cultural roots, at the sametime requiring the development of new models and strategies of solidarity, capable of maintainingidentity and anchorages in the home tradition.

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