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Edited by: János Gyarmati
Hungarian Collectors - Non-European Collections of the Museum of Ethnography in a European Context
Museum of Ethnography, Budapest, 2008. 381 p.
Contents János Gyarmati : The Museum of Ethnography and its exotic collections 1
Edina Földessy : The Africa Collection 27
Balázs Borsos : "If still alive, my next report will be about Lake Rudolf and Lake Stephanie" - The East African collection of the Teleki expedition 67
János Gyarmati : The America Collection 83
Vilma Főzy : "Only the dreams of true magicians come true" - Lajos Boglár and the Amazonia Collection of the Museum of Ethnography 135
Gábor Wilhelm : The Asia and Indonesia Collections 151
Gábor Wilhelm : In search of the ancestral homeland in Asia - Benedek Baráthosi Balogh's ethnographic collection from the Amur region and Japan 191
Gábor Vargyas: The Oceania Collection 207
Anna Biró: "...my intention has never been the mere collection of ethnographica..." Lajos Biró: the Collector and his Collection 249
Judit Antoni: The lure of adventure - Count Rudolf Festetics's Oceanic collection 281
References 313
List of Figures 335
Appendix 339
Index 373 Vissza