Children’s Part in Performing Customs
Journal Title: Martor. The Museum of the Romanian Peasant Anthropology Review - Year 2013, Vol 18, Issue 18
Abstract
The article presents the role played by children in the enactment of traditional customs. Present at all the customs enacted in the community, children sometimes have a dynamic role as participants since they perform rituals; at other times, they have a passive role, of mere spectators, or an intermediate role, that of beneficiaries of customs, such as the cases of the customs of prophylactic rituals. The article also approaches the role children have in the passing down of customs, thus contributing to the community’s social cohesion. Therefore, the article outlines the children’s functions in the enactment of customs and in the development of the dynamics of cultural phenomena.
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Anamaria Iuga
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