Censorship and Self-Censorship In the Traditional Romanian Village Preliminary Aspects

The Romanian traditional village, within a historical reality that validates the concept of “tradition” regarding the entire rural geospace with a multi-millenary, as well as multicultural habitation, is abruptly eradicated, during the middle of the 20^th century, synchronously, the millenary values of the community fading away in increasingly dim touches, assumed by censorship and self-censorship, coordinates of a “hygienic mentality”, shaped from conventions, rules, customs and common laws. Two of the major categories responsible for the functional capacities of censorship–self-censorship, likened one to another, enter within an area of vulnerability. These two categories are equally impropriated by the official institutions (the church, political and administrative structures), respectively by the levers of the community (the council of the elders, evening village sittings, group work, the fair, to become the talk of the village, customs and traditions characterized by a significant and crucial impact…).

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