SÂNZIENELE DIN MARAMUREŞ ÎNTRE TRADIŢIE ŞI MODERNITATE
SÂNZIENELE FROM MARAMUREŞ COUNTY BETWEEN TRADITION AND MODERNITY

Summary/Abstract: Sânziana/Drăgaica (lat. Gallium verum ; lat. Gallium mollugo) is a very old festival celebrated today, on the 24th of June/Cherry month in various regions of our homeland. Sânziana is the term used in Banat, Bucovina, Maramures and in the Northern Moldavia, Transylvania but in Muntenia, Dobrogea, the southern and central Moldavia, this celebration is called Drăgaica. The isotopes (of the following types(agrarian, avimorphic, fitomorphic, superhuman); contaminations such as (Christian Calendar–Saint John the Baptist; Popular Calendar – Sânziana/Drăgaica); regional denominations – Amuțitul Cucului [Cuckoo’s silence], Sântion de Vară [Summer Saint John], Miezul Verii agrare [Agrarian Midsummer]; the synchronic analysis outlines the complexity of this theme. Starting from the binary oppositions past–present, that the tradition–modernity, this work intends to reveal the impact that the Sânzienele celebrations in Maramures County have on the people living in rural and urban environment. Sânzienele in Maramures lands announces the summer solstice and the beginning of the summer agricultural works (mowing). This ethno-folklore custom has survived because it has suffered function mutations. Its media coverage and its spectacular character have transformed this past ritual celebration into cultural manifestations taking place in the open airlocal festivals present (Cununa de Sânziene [Sânziene Wreast] – Tăuții Măgherăuși; Nopți de Sânziene [Sânziene Nights] – Borșa; Hai, Mării, la Sânziene! – Rona de Jos), thus, illustrating the fragile border separating the tradition from the innovation.

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