Forms of Community Participation in Creating Cultural Vitality. Insights from Drăguș, Romania

Abstract

This paper highlights a series of forms of community participation in the case of a Romanian rural community that has a well-defined cultural identity and carries out numerous activities aimed at creating cultural vitality. The main purpose of the paper is to highlight a series of data and reflections derived from the field research carried out over the past years using the ethnographic method, as well as to interpretresearch data on the basis of a theoretical model developed by Mataritta-Cascante and Brennan (2012).

Keywords

• cultural vitality
• intangible cultural heritage
• community development
• community participation