Hungarian Studies Newsletter, 1983 (11. évfolyam, 35-38. szám)

1983 / 35-36. szám

BOOKS NOTED BUT NOT REVIEWED

Erdodi,Józsefed ETUDESFINNO-OUGRIENNESXV. Budapest: Akadémiai kiadd and Paris: ADÉFO, 1982.320 pages. $ n.a. cloth.

Gunda, Béla ed. THE FISHING CULTURE OF THE WORLD.

Budapest: Akadémiai kiadd, 1982. 1060 pages, illus. $68.00 cloth. (Studies in English, French and German.)

Hars, Éva and Ferenc Romváry. MODERN HUNGARIAN GALLERY, PÉCS. Budapest: Corvina kiadd, 1982.340 pages. $28.60 cloth.

Kozma, Ferenc. ECONOMIC INTEGRATION AND ECONOMIC STRATEGY. Budapest: Akadémiai kiadd, 1982. 180 pages. $ n.a.. Cloth.

Kulcsár, Kálmán. PEOPLE’S ASSESSORS IN THE COURTS; A Study in the Sociology of Law. Budapest: Akadémiai kiadd, 1982. 160 pages. $8.00 cloth.

Madl, F. THE LAW OF INTERNATIONAL TRANSACTIONS.

Budapest: Akadémiai kiadd, 1982. 230 pages. $23.00 cloth.

Nagy, Zsuzsa L. THE LIBERAL OPPOSITION IN HUNGARY, 1919-1945. Budapest: Akadémiai kiadd, 1982. 130 pages. $9.00 cloth.

Varga, Béla. FRANCIS DAVID: WHAT HAS ENDURED OF HIS LIFE AND WORK. Trs. by Vilma Szantho Harrington. Budapest: Magyar Unita'rius Egyház (Hungarian Unitarian Church), 1981.39 pages, annotated list of persons mentioned in the text. $ n.a. cloth.

MEETINGS (Continued)

L.U.) and Margit Toth (Mrs. Méry) (Cultural Association of Hungarian Workers in Czechoslovakia) gave accounts of research among the sizable Hungarian ethnic population of Czechoslovakia. Two studies were concerned with Hungarians in Romania. Béla Gunda (Kossuth L.U.) presented an in-depth yet broad study on fieldwork among the Moldavian (csángó) Hungarians (3,813 by Soviet statistics, some 70,000 or more by Hungarian estimates). He quoted Vilma Kósa’s work on kinship terminology which retained elements of the once dominant extended family system. The custom of being a “100-lei-wife," i.e., a Moldavian Hungarian girl who received train-fare from a Hungarian boy in Transylvania to come and marry him, is still alive strengthening kinship and ethnic ties between Hungarians on the Eastern and Western slopes of the Carpathian Mountains. Lajos Balázs has written about the custom of exogamy in the area. Another speaker, László Kosa (Eötvös L.U.) called attention to the multidisciplinary (ethnographic and sociological) approach of some studies, and to the emphasis ön folklore research. Over 40 studies have been published on Romanian-Hungarian ethnographic research. Imre Danko (De'ry Museum, Debrecen) reported on studies in Carpathian Ruthenia where some 150,000 Hungarians have maintained their ethnic identity. The tricultural character of the Jewish population of the region would lend itself to interesting studies if research permits could be obtianed. Imre Katona (Eötvös L.U.) reported on research among the some415,000 Hungarians in Yugoslavia (Yugoslav figures). Most of this group live along the Danube and Tisza Rivers and in scattered settlements along the Dráva River. Approximately five hundred live in Bosnia and have never been studied. The emphasis again is on folklore. E.g., Lajos Matejivics studied child sayings; Olga Penavin analyzed riddles and jokes; Endre Kovács collected 2,400 beliefs and found a significant increase of verbs in the texts and a shift from heroes to outlaws as central figures of

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stories. Some 30 books and 170 articles testify to the intensity of work performed in this area. Ferenc Bakó’s (museologist, Eger) thorough paper on Hungarian ethnic research in the U.S. and Canada was augmented by Eva V. Huseby’s report on the study of two Hungarian ethnic radio station, one in the U.S., and one in Canada, as well as on the nearly completed collection of oral life histories of Hungarian immigrants in the U.S. (E.V. Huseby) □

LOUIS THE GREAT OF HUNGARY AND POLAND AND HIS AGE: 1342-82 was the title of a session at the 97th annual meeting of the American Historical Association in Washington, D.C., Decembr 27-30, 1982. The session was jointly sponsored with the American Association for the Study of Hungarian History. Chaired by Imre Boba (U. of Washington), it contained the following papers: Louis the Great of Hungary and Casimir the Great of Poland by Paul W. Knoll (U. of Southern California); The Influence of Italian Campaigns of Louis the Great on Hungarian Cultural Developments by Leslie S. Domonkos (Youngstown St. U.); Years of Turbulence: The Problems of Succession to the Throne by Joseph Held (Rutgers U.); and The Image of Louis the Great in Hungarian Historiography by Steven B. Vardy (Duquesne U.). Discussant was JaninaW. Hoskins (Library of Congress). Ina session on WAR AND THE HABSBURG EMPIRE IN THE 18th CENTURY Linda Frey (U. of Montana) and Marsha Frey (Kansas St. U.) presented a study on Insurgency During the War of the Spanish Succession: The Rákóczi Revolt. □

The Central and East European Studies Assoc, of Canada, jointly with the Central and East European Studies Society of Alberta held its triennial conference at Edmonton, Alberta between February 24 and 27, 1983. Items of the agenda of Hungarian interest were papers presented by George Bisztray (U. of Toronto) on “How long is an ‘Ethnic’ an ethnic?’’; Martin L. Kovács (U. of Regina) on “New settlers on the prairie;” and John M. Bak (U. of British Columbia ) on “Attitudes and reactions to emigration in Austria and Hungary.” □

The Ethnographic Research Institute of the HAS arranged a meeting on its premises on November 16, 1982, in which Martha Lampland (U. of Chicago), Michael Sozan (Slippery Rock St. Coll.), and Eva V. Huseby (U. of Michigan) presented papers on the theoretical, structural, and methodological aspects of American cultural anthropology, and on their ongoing fieldwork in various Hungarian villages. □

The American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies held its 14th Annual Meeting at Washington, D.C., October 14-17, 1982. The convention offered 128 regular sessions with 3 to 4 papers or participants each, and scores of special events and business meetings. Hungarian topics were well represented.

There were two symposia cosponsored by the American Association for the Study of Hungarian History. One, chaired by György Ránki (Indiana U.) focused on THE ROLE OF THE HUNGARIAN NOBILITY IN THE 19th CENTURY: A CRITICAL ASSESSMENT. Papers of the session were “Sze'chenyi’s Aristocratic View on Politics” by George Bárány (U. of Denver); “From Revolution to Compromise: The Road of the Hungarian Nobility” by István Deák (Columbia U.); “The Transformation of a Social Class: An Economic and Social Assessment” by Péter Hanák (Institute of History, HAS). Discussants were: László Derne (U. of South Florida), William McCagg (Michigan St. U.), and Ferenc Pölöskei (Eötvös L.U.). The other symposium concerned itself with WHO

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