Hungarian Studies Newsletter, 1981 (9. évfolyam, 27-30. szám)
1981 / 29. szám
HUNGARIAN STUDIES NEWSLETTER No. 29 ISSN: 0194-164X AUTUMN, 1981 Published quarterly by the Hungarian Research Center of the American Hungarian Foundation: Winter, Spring (two numbers included), and Autumn. Founder and editor: Bela Charles Maday. Journal editor: Enikő Molnár Basa. Corresponding editor: Lorant Czigany (London). Communications concerning content should be addressed to the Editor, 4528-49th Street, N.W., Washington, DC 20016. Communications concerning subscriptions, advertising, and circulation should be addressed to American Hungarian Foundation, 177 Somerset Street, P.O. Box 1084, New Brunswick, N.J. 08903. Annual subscription in the U.S.A. $4.00. Abroad $5.00 Current single copy $2.00; back issues $2.50 each. BOOKS (Continued) and the verbal phrase. Four essays deal with word order and stress as contrastive problems. A study on spatial adjectives and one on kinship and body-part terminology as well as on general problems of semantic interference, reflect the linguistic concern of the authors. Finally, one methodological essay elaborates on error classification, and another illustrates the pedagogical application on contrastive research with a methodological guide to the teaching of English past perfect and past perfect continuous constructions. In sum, this is an important volume for the specialist, and comprehensible for the student of minimal linguistic training. Hare, Paul, Hugo Radice, and Nigel Swain, eds., HUNGARY: A Decade of Economic Reform. Allen & Unwin, 9 Winchester Terrace, Winchester, MA 01890, and 40 Museum Street, London WC1A ILU, 1981. 257 pages, charts, graphs, tables, biblios. $29.95 cloth. The transformation of the Hungarian economy has been the subject of many scientific and popular writings of recent years. This volume concerns itself with the innovations in the sphere of economic policy. After the war, the centralized Soviet model of planned economy was established, which failed to satisfy either the consumer or the Party. "By the mid 1960s it had come to be believed that only a fairly radical reform of the economic mechanism could significantly improve the country’s trade.” Czechoslovakia and Poland reached similar conclusions but “their ideas have provoked debate rather than action.” Hungarians went ahead and implemented the reforms which, however, “in noway changed the basic power relationships operating within Hungarian society. Though amended and revised several times, the basic reforms were more radical and lasted longer than any other in Eastern Europe. Consequently, Hungary has become a large-scale laboratory for the rest of Eastern Europe and for economists the world over. This volume is intended as an interim report on the successes and failures of the reforms. “In particular, it examines two fields where regulation has always been problematic, namely the labour market and investment decisions.” The ten authors are known experts in their fields. The principal editor is senior lecturer in economics at Stirling U.; H.K. Radice is lecturer in economics at Leeds U.; and N. Swain is a doctoral candidate in sociology at Cambridge U. Kolar, Walter W. and Agnes H. Vardy eds. THE FOLK ARTS OF HUNGARY. Duquesne U. Tamburitzans Institute of Folk Arts, 1801 Boulevard of the Allies, Pittsburgh, PA 15219, 1981. 202 pages, maps, notes, illus., biblio. $10.00 paper, mimeo. The Tamburitzan Institute organized a Hungarian cultural week at Pittsburgh in April 1980. This event included a symposium on Hungarian folk culture, which was designed to offer a broad spectrum of Hungarian folk culture and its migrant form in the United States. The volume contains ten papers presented at the symposium, two by visiting scholars from Hungary, and eight by American specialists as follows: Hungarian Folk Customs by Tekla Dömötör, Eötvös L.U.; Magic World of Hungarian Story Tellers by Linda Degh, Indiana U.; Historical Strata of Hungarian Folk Art by Ildikó Kriza Horváth, Ethnographic Research Institute, HAS; Social Transformation of Hungarian Rural Society by Michael Sozan, Slippery Rock Coll.; Research in Hungarian-American History and Culture: Achievements and Prospects by Steven Bela Vardy, Duquesne U., and Agnes H. Vardy, Robert Morris Coll.; Hungarian American Archives and Other Research Sources by August J. Molnár, American Hungarian Foundation; The Effect of Collectivization on Village Social Organization by Marida Hollos, Brown U.; Béla Bartók and Hungarian Folk Song by Benjamin Suchoff, trustee Béla Bartók Estate; Hungarian Ethnography - American Anthropology by Bela C. Maday, and Hungarian Folk dances - In Hungary and in America by Kalman and Judith Magyar, American Hungarian Folklore Centrum. W.W. Kolar is director of the Tamburitzans Institute of Folk Art, and A.H. Vardy is in the Department of Humanities at Robert Morris Coll. Lengyel, Alfonz and George T. Radan. ARCHAEOLOGY OF ROMAN PANNÓNIA. Kentucky U. Press, Lexington, KY 40506, in collaboration with Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest, 1980. 509 pages, 167 black & white plates, diagrams, drawings, maps, biblios. $45.00 cloth. Renewed interest and new approaches characterize Pannonia-oriented research and writing of recent years. Traditionally such efforts depended heavily on Roman imperial history rather than on archaeological research. But “scholarship tied to the empire has passed its zenith.” This book recapitulates the investigations by Hungarian archaeologists, especially in the postwar period. It traces the development of civilization along the Middle Danube Valley from pre-Roman times through the appearance of the Magyars. Archaeological digs produced new evidence on art, form of government, public administration, economies and trade, villa culture, warfare, and religious cults of the period. The volume presents a comprehensive view of the life and destruction of a very important yet understudied province of the Roman Empire. As basic reference in English this volume is a guide to Pannonian scholarship. For the specialist it is a must. The general reader will find interesting analogies to our times in comprehensive accounts of culture change. The book is a result of cooperative efforts of specialists: the sixteen contributors are Hungarian scholars, the editors are American. The main body of the book is followed by an appendix on methodology, and a chronological table. Lengyel is dean of the Inst, of Mediterranean Art and Archaeology, Cincinnati, Ohio, and Radan is the director of the School of Art and Art History, Villanova U. Luebke, Frederick C. ed. ETHNICITY ON THE GREAT PLAINS. U. of Nebraska Press for the Center for Great Plains Studies, 901 North 17th Street, Lincoln, NB 1980. xxxiii + 237 pages, diagrams, tables, illus. $15.95 cloth. The volume includes 12 of the 33 papers presented at the second annual symposium for the coordination of research, 2 NO. 29, AUTUMN 1981, HUNGARIAN STUDIES NEWSLETTER
