Viziunea sociologului Ernest Bernea asupra Maramureşului

The article focuses upon a book written by an important member of the Bucharest Sociological School, Ernest Bernea, and dedicated to a symbol of resistence and national devotedness: Maramureș. The study, found at the confluence between personal confession and social science, argues the Romanian character of this border region through geographic, historical, ethnographic, anthropological and artistic indicators. As a pretext, the article contains a brief reference to the status of the Historical Maramureș and the Romanian communiy that lives on the other side of the Tisa River, who constantly requests a moral repair made by the Romanian state in the context of the Great Union Centenary: the recognition that Maramureş was part of the modern Romanian state in the 1918–1921 timeframe, which inevitably shoud trigger a set of legal, cultural, political and economic actions deriving from this historical truth.