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PETI LEHEL: Gazdasági stratégiák és társadalmi viszonyok a Kis-Küküllő vidékén
Adatbázisok Yaron MATRAS-Viktor ELSIK Romani Morpho-Syntax Database Elérhetőség: Http://romani. humanities.manchester.ac. uk/rms/map Biroul Electoral Central 2012 Alegeri locale, 10 iunie 2012. Primarii pe municipii, ora§e §i comune. 1-571. Biroul Electoral Central 2012 Alegeri locale, 10 iunie 2012., 24 iunie 2012. Consilieri locali. Voturi valabile exp- rimate §i mandate pe localitäti. 1-1506. 201 I Recensámőntul Populapei §i al Locuinfelor 201 I Elérhetőség: www.recensamantromania.ro/ Lehel Peti ECONOMIC STRATEGIES AND SOCIETAL CONDITIONS IN THE REGION OF KIS-KÜKÜLLŐ The essay outlines the most important socio-cultural and economic changes during the times of socialism and post-socialism in the villages between Balavásár and Balázsfalva, especially highlighting today’s situation. The study deals with the dilemma of the definition of the extent of the ethnographic unit Kis-Küküllő; outlines the vicissitude of the region’s ethnic and confessional structure and depicts its present political balance of power and economic situation. The author concludes that a considerable ethnic reshuffle has taken place in the studied area along the social historic intersections of the last century and as a consequence a change has taken place in the field of economic, confessional and political positioning of certain ethnic groups. After the complete disappearance of Jews and following the exodus of the Saxon population, only a few older Saxon families have remained today. The Rumanian ethnic group has remarkably strengthened by now its already dominant position at the beginning of the century within the ethnic composition of the region. Today the culturally heterogeneous gypsy population is represented with a high proportion in the ethnic structure of the region. Their majority lives in the deepest village poverty, moreover, without actual political representation. The Hungarian ethnic group is somewhat over-represented in the political power structure of the region. Although agriculture lost some of its importance after the change of system, every group of the village population participate in agricultural activity, mainly by the means of pluriactive economy and autarchic food production. Based on the historic importance of viticulture and wine production and as a result of the village agrarian elite’s self-organization, initiatives were taken, fulfilling important symbolic, economic, politic and community functions (agrarian associations, orders of the knights of wine). Although in some villages the importance of employment (mainly in the energy sector, in the bakery industry or involved with a foreign agrarian investor or with a small enterprise in the village) should not be underestimated, the society’s most important source of income remains employment in towns for daily commuters. An exception is the gypsy population: recently they earn their living on a massive scale as guest workers abroad. 206
