The Folklore of the Calendar Customs (Spring, Summer, Autumn) Recorded in The Digitized Collections of Ethnographic and Folkloric Materials

Abstract

The article informs and provides an analysis on the qualitative and quantitativelevel of the data regarding the folklore of the calendar customs (spring, summer, autumn),which were digitized within the project Saving the Folkloric Archival Material Preservedin Chisinau, Republic of Moldova (EAP1045). Transgressed from the classic archivingformat to the digitized one, the manuscripts and cassette tapes offer us valuable informationgathered between 1956-1992, with reference to the folklore of the feasts celebrated in thewarm season of the year, as well as of the customs, social, ceremonial and ritual practices,beliefs and mythical representations associated with them. Evaluating the consistency ofdocumenting these folkloric and ethnographic expressions in the archival materials, wenoticed inequalities and prioritizations in their recording and researching, the attention ofthe folclorists being visibly diffused towards other genres of folklore.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.52505/1857-4300.2021.3(315).10

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