Cutume maritale la diferite subgrupuri de rromi. Unitate în diversitate
Marriage Customs in Different Roma Subgroups. Unity in Diversity

Summary/Abstract: The fruit of the author’s ethnographic research, carried out between 1997 and 2001, in order to obtain the doctorate in ethnography-ethnology, the present work is a part, still unpublished and revised, of the doctoral thesis “Rromanipen – Family as an Identity value. Customs from the Family Cycle in the Roma Traditional Culture”. Beyond the common cultural model and the similar customary stem, different Roma subgroups have specific approaches to marriage rituals, depending on their own priorities of the symbolizing language. The research presents and interprets various cultural practices from the customary area of marriage in Roma communities from different geographical areas of Romania, the studied subgroups being Coppersmiths, Bear-Tamers, Hungarian Roma, Tinsmiths, Roma from Tismana, Horses-Sellers, Turkish Roma and more.The research demonstrates the cultural unity of the Roma ethnic identity, its foundations beingcommon to all subgroups. Overcoming the differences in ritual practice found at different Romasubgroups, some of which disappeared or being on the verge of extinction, the essential elementsrelated to the purity of the bride at marriage and the absolute need for harmony, balance and durability of marriage are preserved at the level of all Roma communities, so that the basic values related to family and marriage remain intact.

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