Folia Historica 35. (Budapest, 2020)
II. KÖZLEMÉNYEK - Vasvári Zoltán: Együd Árpád perőcsényi néprajzi gyűjtéséről
ABOUT ÁRPÁD EGYÜD ’S ETHNOGRAPHIC COLLECTION Summary Árpád Egyiid, who died sadly early at the age of 62, had a unique career in Hungarian ethnography. He was one of the most prominent collectors and fieldworkers of Hungarian ethnography in the 20th century. Árpád Egyiid was born in Perőcsény, in Hont county on 30 January 1921 and died on 17 August 1983. This study summarizes Egyiid's career and gives a detailed description of his Perőcsény collection. Árpád Egyiid got far away from his birthplace, Perőcsény, at the age of twenty- five, but never forgot it. As an ethnographer, it was always his desire to gather and publish the folk culture and traditions of his home village. Among the digitised sound recordings in Egyiid's legacy, there are 55 recordings from 11 informants in Perőcsény. These are short, usually 1-2-minute-long audio clips. Egyiid was devoted to folklore, he was interested in folk songs, folk traditions, folkways and folk music, as it is apparent from the digitised Perőcsény material. One of the important and interesting features of the sound recordings is that they contain two compositions by his father, two popular songs which are canonised as folk songs by tradition in Perőcsény. As the conclusion of the study, the author describes a folk tradition preserved only in Perőcsény, the making of the tebefa (tebe tree). 169
