СВАДБЕНИ ОБИЧАЈИ КОД СРБА У РУМУНИЈИ: РОДНА ПЕРСПЕКТИВА
WEDDING CUSTOMS AMONG SERBS IN ROMANIA: A GENDER PERSPECTIVE

Summary/Abstract: Within the multi-year project Researching the Culture and History of the Serbs in Romania, organized by the Center for Scientific Research of the Culture of the Serbs in Romania, the team of the Ethnographic Institute SASA realized field research on wedding customs practiced by the Serbian national minority in the Romanian part of Banat. Based on field material collected from 2016 to 2019, this text discussed about the role of wedding customs in the process of creation and manifestations of gender identities. Gender roles are observed and analyzed in pre-wedding customs (prediction of the future spouse’s name, meeting each other, analysing the house, marriage proposal, behaviour of the future newlyweds before the wedding, wedding invitation, preparations for the wedding, transfer of the bride’s things to the groom’s house and bachelor / bachelorette party), customs on the wedding day (gathering of the wedding guests, coming to pick up the bride, picking up the bride, going to the wedding, getting married, wedding celebration, the bride’s entering into the groom’s house, sending off the wedding party guests, „feathers“ and going „to the water“) and customs after the wedding day („in the morning“, checking the maiden’s virginity and visiting newly related families).

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