A mindennapi élet szerveződése Tordán az első világháború idején
The Organization of Everyday Life in Turda/Torda during the First World War

Author(s): Vilmos Keszeg
Subject(s): Customs / Folklore, Ethnohistory, Pre-WW I & WW I (1900 -1919)
Published by: Fórum Kisebbségkutató Intézet
Summary/Abstract: In my previous research on the dynamics of traditional (folk) culture, I examined the laws and regulations and identified the institutions—such as the church, education, and the media—that significantly influenced the status of traditions, affecting their practice, abandonment, or transformation. The present study builds on this line of inquiry, focusing on the period of the First World War. Drawing on the volumes of Aranyosvidék, the county weekly published in Turda/Torda, the study examines how everyday life was transformed during the war. It addresses the removal of men from the family and workforce; assistance provided to front-line soldiers, the wounded, war-disabled veterans, widows, and orphans; survival strategies; changes in burial practices and the commemoration of the dead; attitudes toward prisoners of war; and family life amid the dispersal of family members. This analysis explores how, in this conjunctural (crisis) context, everyday life, became subject to national, local, and institutional regulations; how daily routines were constrained; and aims to identify the official provisions that initiated new procedures, redirecting everyday practices into the sphere of legality and compliance.

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