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Mariana COCIERU 
doctor în filologie
Institutul de Filologie Română „Bogdan Petriceicu-Hasdeu”, MECC
email: [e-mail]
CERCETAREA FENOMENULUI ETNOCULTURAL HORA SATULUI 
ÎN CONTEMPORANEITATE
Summary. Research of the ethnocultural phenomenon 
Hora satului
 in the contemporary 
world
.
 
In the present approach the author refers to the research of the horal phenomenon in the 
geo-cultural space of the Republic of Moldova starting, directly, from the studies already appeared 
with reference to the recording of this ethno-folkloric manifestation and following the performance 
of the folklore phenomenon in situ. Current field research shows that collective memory preserves 
much more information regarding the development of the phenomenon in the interwar and postwar 
period, as for the updating of this phenomenon in postmodernity, it is necessary to take a differ-
ent approach, as there are localities where this custom is not practiced, or completely disappeared. 
However, field investigations have shown that, despite several social, political, ideological factors, 
there are a number of folk environments that have preserved this folk manifestation, obviously with 
certain transformations or rehabilitated it during the last decades of state independence. Observing 
and researching the social, cultural and political factors of resistance to the Soviet ideological regime 
and urbanization in the postwar period, there were a number of changes in the structure of the oral 
phenomenon, recorded changes in various stages, redefining the new status and reconsideration. tra-
ditional culture in contemporaneity. The information on the topic proposed for research was synthe-
sized from archival material in the form of manuscripts and audio recordings of ethnographic field re-
search since 1945 initiated by employees of the Institute of Language and Literature of the Moldovan 
branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences and continued by researchers of the Institute of Romanian 
Philology „Bogdan Petriceicu-Hasdeu, thanks to the implementation of the project from the state 
program „Contextuality of traditional culture in contemporaneity: Hora satului/ Village dance in the 
geo-cultural space of the Republic of Moldova”.