Nomenclatorul ocupaţiilor şi meşteşugurilor populare din Ţara Maramureşului.

This paper, a result of a field research carried out between the years 2010-2019, is focused on the traditional life from one of the best preserved regions of Romania. In the first part, we followed the evolution of rural life of Maramureş from the 19th century ongoing, noting that the Industrial Revolution has never reached that place, that the region's claimed isolation was not real, and highlighting the most important changes, from the times when the place's life has been completely traditional, until today. Then comes a list of 221 types of jobs still practiced today in Maramures, of which 69 we have listed as occupations, and 152 as handicrafts. Therefore, the Land of Maramureş, an area so small and low inhabited, preserves today one of the highest known concentrations of authentic occupations and crafts. Each activity was noted as practiced by women, men, in rural or urban settings (although in Maramureş the two environments are deeply intertwined), respectively in danger of extinction. We grouped occupations into several major categories: agriculture, animal husbandry, shepherding, hay making, fruit growing, viticulture, hunting, fishing, beekeeping, foraging, forestry, transportation, food preparation and motherhood. The handicrafts were systematized taking into account first (but not only) the raw material processed: textile fibers processing, wool processing, beading, bridal crowns, wood processing, musical instruments making, basket making, leather processing, various types of water powered mills, bone and horn processing, metal processing, stone processing, clay processing, the end of the study being assigned to a heterogeneous category, which we called „other occupations, crafts, services and skills". [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]