Balaton az ezredfordulón - Jankó János nyomában = Lake Balaton in the 21th century - in the track of János Jankó

Kutatásunk célja a Balaton-parti települések jelenkori társadalma és kultúrája specifikus jelenségeinek dokumentálása, valamint a térség legfontosabb 20. századi társadalomtörténeti folyamatainak a néprajzi terepmunka módszereivel való feltérképezése volt. 2005 és 2008 között 315 terepmunkanapon 40 helyiségben rögzítettünk adatokat. Az adatok kezelésére és tárolására létrehoztuk a "Balatonkutatás" projektkezelő adatbázist, amelybe folyamatosan töltjük fel a feldolgozott interjúkat és képi információkat. Az adatbázis tartalma: 4000 archivált, illetve eredeti fényképfelvétel, 240 dokumentum, köztük életút- és tematikus interjúk és 360 bibliográfiai tétel. Az adatok kezelését segítő tárgyszórendszer 240 tárgyszót tartalmaz. A feldolgozás és az adatfeltöltés 2009. május 31-ig zárul le. Az első összefoglaló eredmények konferencia formájában való közzétételére 2009 őszén kerül sor, a következő témákban: A Balaton térségének tudománytörténeti problémái; A Balaton-part népesedési kérdései a 18-19. században; Az idegenforgalom hatásai az őslakosság kultúrájára; Hagyományőrzés és hagyományalkotás: a fesztiválok és közösségi ünnepek; muzeális gyűjtemények és kiállítóhelyek; Hagyomány és globalizáció a Balaton térség gasztronómiájában; Borászatok működése a rendszerváltást követő időszakban; Halászat, horgászat, orvhalászat a rendszerváltást követő időszakban; Hitélet és vallásgyakorlat a Balaton térségében | The project purposed the documentation of some current characteristic features of society and culture of the direct surrounding of Lake Balaton. The other intention was the ethnographic searching of the main social processes determing changes in the 20th century in this area. 2005-2008 on 315 fieldwork days we have colllected datas in 40 settlements. For processing and storing the datas we have created a special project-handling database in Hungarian language. The interwiev-texts, photos and bibliograhy are constantly uploaded in this data base up to 31.05.2009. In february 2009 the database includes 4000 digitalized or digital photos, 240 documents and 360 biblograpy items. All types of datas are supplemented with a blank of informations and some special subject-headings. The first summerized issues are expected in a project conference in autunm 2009 on following themes: The heritage of János Jankó - the main problems in history of science of Lake Balaton; The main demografic problems of Lake Balaton in the 18-19 th centuries; The effects of tourism on the development in the the direct surrounding of Lake Balaton; Keeping and making tradition in festivals; museums and collections; Traditon and globalism in the gastronomy of the Balaton area; Traditional subsistence forms in our days: viniculture, fishing, line-fishing and poaching; Confession, denomination and worship in the Balaton ar

A Néprajzi Múzeum tárgykatalógusai = Catalogues of collections of the Museum of Ethnography

A kutatási program egy hosszú évek óta sikeresen folyó kutatás és feldolgozás továbbvitele, amely a Néprajzi Múzeum rendkívül gazdag tárgyi gyűjteményének minél szélesebb körű feltárását, bemutatását és elemzését tűzte célul. Az előző két kutatási program folytatásaként, annak és nemzetközi katalógusmunkák eredményeinek felhasználásával, a műtárgykatalógus elméleti és módszertani alapjainak továbbgondolásával öt katalógust jelentettünk meg, háromnak pedig előkészületi munkái részben vagy egészében befejeződtek. Az elnyert pályázat keretében a program vállalásait teljesítettük: Gráfik Imre Céhemlékek, Selmeczi-Kovács Attila: A tokmány, Főzy Vilma: A piaroa gyűjtemény, Csupor István Céhes kerámiák és Kerezsi Ágnes Obi ugor viseletek című tárgykatalógusa megjelent. Nyomdakész állapotban van Szacsvay Éva Szobrok című munkája, kéziratos formában elkészült Szarvas Zsuzsa A vászonfeszítő című katalógusa és jelentős mértékben előrehaladtak Fejős Zoltán A kéregedény című összefoglalásának munkálatai is. A megjelent katalógusok bevezető tanulmánya – illetőleg a nemzetközi gyűjteményekből származó munkáknál a tárgyleírás – kétnyelvű, ami lehetővé teszi, hogy eredményeink a nemzetközi kutatás számára is hasznosuljanak. | Following in the footsteps of a successful and long-running research and processing project, this study program has set the goal of comprehensive exploration, presentation and analysis of the extremely rich collection of objects housed by the Museum of Ethnography. Building on earlier experience, in determining the topics and the methodology of the catalogues we strove to take multiple considerations into account. We have published five catalogues: Imre Gráfik: Guild Relics, Attila Selmeczi Kovács: The Whetstone Holder, Vilma Főzy: The Piaroa Collection, István Csupor: Guild Pottery, Ágnes Kerezsi: Ob-Ugrian costume. The Statues by Éva Szacsvay is ready for print and serious preparation works for two other catalogues (Zsuzsa Szarvas: The Canvas Strainer and Zoltán Fejős: The bark pot) has been made. The introductory part in all catalogues – and in some cases the descriptions of the objects as well – have been translated into English, which makes the result of this study program available for the international scientific field

Hungarian Saddle - Tiszafüred Saddle - Eastern Cultural Heritage

This work is based on the museological classification of the saddle collection of the Museum of Ethnography in Budapest. The collection consists of cca 150 saddles, two-thirds of which comes from Hungarian speaking areas, one third from Northern Africa, Asia and Finland. The author describes the development of saddles and their different types by analysing the objects and professional literature. Making and ornamenting saddles, harnesses and equipments of the saddles for different purposes are described here. The most famous Hungarian saddle making centre and the most widespread Hungarian type, the Tiszafüred type are highlighted. Cultural history of this Eastern heritage from the ancient history of Hungarians upto the present is presented. It also refers to the significant traditions of Hungarian riding culture (Hungarian hussar) and to the new areas and possibilities of current saddle usage (sport, turism, recreation)

„Von Westeuropa Nach Mitteleuropa“ — Ein Beispiel aus Transdanubien, aus dem Komitat vas, Ungarn

“From Western Europe to Central Europe”. Example from Vas Country in Transdanubia, Hungary . The relation between the World and Hungary, and its population has changed since the change of regime in 1989. The political, economic and social openness has started such progression that has changed the life conditions of both the individuals and the communities. Our sample, if it could be typical in this case, it could also be atypical . Iklanberény, the town which we examine, is the second smallest in Vas county, which is typically a county of small towns. The situation of Iklanberény is in many ways very interesting. As far as I am concerned the foreigners have chosen this town to move into without any special reason, but it is a fact, that after the first family moved in, more and more have come and settled. Nowadays about 10–14 foreigners — mainly Germans — (30%) live there besides the Hungarians. The foreigners live there either constantly or periodically, dependent of their work, economic interest, and in some cases it is also a question of Hungarian origin, or simple personal sympathy, cultural interest or the will to learn. They can not really take part in the town’s public life, because of work occupation, lack of relatives and friends, and of language difficulties, but with gestures, donations they constantly show how they are planning to stay and build up an existence there. They believe their ‘complete’ integration is very problematic, and their age, as well as language communication problems make it quite unlikely to happen. The future is hard to see for their foreign employees, their children — if — taking on their businesses, within the possibilities of the European Union. Still it is definitely sure that their presence in Iklanberény, in the past ten years, has made positive changes in the life of the little town, regardless of their limits. Also they are helping to make the future of their “second home” positive

The role of the popular play in preserving natinal identity

Ethnographic inquiry into the folk culture of the Carpathian Basin, with particular reference to developmental trends, has revealed much new information regarding the lives of Hungarians abroad, especially regarding changing living conditions within Hungarian populations now living outside historically redrawn Hungarian state borders. It would be no exaggeration to claim that these Hungarians have, to the present day, lived under extraordinarily diverse circumstances, and that the preservation of folk culture in the minority national environment has been a decisive factor in the maintenance of their national identity. For this culture to survive and grow, however, it is essential that members of the national group learn and use their native Hungarian tongue.The present study concerns itself with the historic genre of the popular play, a cultural phenomenon that has played a special role in this regard and that in some places, both in the recent past, and today, still bears considerable significance in the preservation of minority national identity. Accordingly, this study will not extend to actual folk dramatics, though it will make reference to certain intersections and possible relationships where it seems natural to do so

A Semiotic-aesthetic approach to the analysis of the practice of vernacular architecture in Hungary

The spatial frame of the investigation is the Carpathian Basin and especially its Great Plain areas inhabited by Hungarian-speaking people; and the period it covers, which can be documented with buildings, is the 150–200 years from the second half of the 18th century to the first half of the 20th century. Examining all the elements of form which played a role in shaping the architectural image of the market town, it can be found that some of them are only barely, while others are very definitely expressions of the semiosis of market town architecture.The criteria of form are suitable for the simultaneous realisation of the following triadic relations: 1) the architectural functions archived through the technical-technological and structural solutions of building practice; 2) meanings related to the communicative nature of architecture; 3) representation of the architectural solutions of aesthetic content accepted by the taste of the community, artistic aesthetics (of architecture).As a final conclusion it can thus be said that a relative and absolute horizontal and vertical dynamics — realised with architectural signs and visually codable — operate in shaping the architectural image of the market town

Reviews

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