Abstract:
Scholarly literature generally mentions spinning houses, smithies, mills, weaving houses, marketplaces, baths, schools, the streets – which also provided the location for carnivals –, fairs and pubs among the locations of free, informal social interactions (entertainment, games). The first three locations primarily represent the location for rural social interaction and merry-making. As for the rest, plenty of sources can also be quoted from the city of Cluj/Kolozsvár/Klausenburg for them. These sources provide plenty of relevant information about the uses of urban space and related events, the reflection of society within social representations (e. g. mills, bakehouses, and people associated with these locations; marketplaces as locations for discussing events and exchanging views; the city bath, where people also used to meet, etc.). Protocols – legislative ones in particular – provide ample data about the flings of the city-dwellers of Cluj to the fairs, as they do about the free provision of drinks by grape holder citizens, the events at the shooting range, and the playing grounds of children and the youth. These sources also provide an image about the demand for the essential accessories of public and everyday representation (selfrepresentation and the manifestation of self-shaping). Thus, this paper aims to outline some locations and forms of informal social interactions.
