Construcția casei la bulgari: muncă colectivă în societatea tradițională
Building the house among the Bulgarians: a collective work in the traditional society

Summary/Abstract: In a traditional society, man's life was organized so that he could secure himself everything necessary for food, primary vital needs, to ensure the protection of his family. Some activities required great skill and craftsmanship and were performed only by craftsmen who specialized more narrowly. Other activities were divided according to the "male - female" principle (gender). But most of the day-to-day activities of various kinds were carried out in the house or in the courtyard of the peasant. But the construction of the house was an important work and a significant stage for human life. In this article we discuss the role and the place of collective work during the construction of the house through the prism of stages, superstitions and traditions related to this process to the Moldovan and native Bulgarians. This complex of rituals was bilateral, because it was associated with work and those classified as transition rituals, which aimed at transforming the "foreign" space into one "own". Analyzing some of these traditions, we find that in southern Bessarabia Bulgarians have preserved a large part of customs related to the construction of the house. But also we insist that interconnections and mutual influences over time have been inevitable.

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