Museum of Ethnography
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Editor: Zsuzsa Szarvas
Néprajzi Értesítő, yearbook of the Museum of Ethnography
Museum of Ethnography, Budapest, 2021. 248 p.
The 101st volume of the Néprajzi Értesítő is an English-language volume containing studies published over the past 10 years, primarily dealing with or based on the collection material of the Museum of Ethnography. Its aim is to make the scholarly work carried out at the institution more accessible to international scholarship and to provide an insight into the diversity of the collection and the possibilities of interpretation.
We publish a volume that covers Hungarian and regional collections of the Museum, deals with the collections of objects as well as the Archives, processing exhibition, history of science, and institutional involvement. The selection analyses the various eras, both historic, and contemporary, represented by the museum’s collection, reacting as much to research topics that span multiple eras in its history as to inquiry entailing a degree of self-reflection.
Table of Contents
Lajos Kemecsi Introduction
Zsuzsa Szarvas Celebrating the 100th Issue of Néprajzi Értesítő
János Gyarmati The Very Beginning The Formation of the Collection of the Museum of Ethnography
Péter Granasztói Between Barn and Grammar School The history of the first architectural competition for the Museum of Ethnography’s building, 1923
Lajos Kemecsi The Politics of Memory and Ethnographic Museums
Tímea Bata On the Trail Székely Gates and Wooden Churches The Photographic Work of Teacher Gábor Szinte (1855–1914)
Emese Szojka Anatomy of a Collection The Ethnographic Artefacts of Lajos Fülep
Mónika Lackner– Zsuzsanna Tasnádi “Old and New Embroideries” The life of Jolán Ferenczi
Hajnalka Fülöp Kalotaszeg Trousseaus at the Museum of Ethnography Examples from Kalotaszentkirály and Inaktelke: Bringing Two Material Worlds to Life
Gábor Wilhelm Memory and Material Culture The ‘Story Cloths’ of Hmong Refugees
Zsófia Frazon – Mónika Lackner WINDOW A Pathway through the Permanent Exhibition Folk Culture of the Hungarians