MUTUAL AID AND OTHER FORMS OF JOINT WORK AS MANIFESTATIONS OF SOLIDARITY IN THE MACEDONIAN TRADITIONAL VILLAGE CULTURE

"Mutual help" is a folk custom of joint voluntary work representing an important feature of the village as a social and economic community in Macedonia. The mutual aid was voluntary and was based on the principle of mutual help of labor services. This paper presents traditional forms of customary assistance and dynamics of change through data obtained from field research, and data already exists in the ethnographic literature.