Hungarian Studies Newsletter, 1984 (12. évfolyam, 39-42. szám)
1984 / 41. szám
\lt /111 AMERICAN HUNGARIAN FOUNDATION HUNGARIAN STUDIES NEWSLETTER A NEW EXCHANGE OPPORTUNITY A recently concluded agreement between the International Cultural Institute in Budapest, headed by Dr. Tamás Körner, and InterFuture in New York will permit selected undergraduates from American colleges to design and carry out independent study projects in their major fields in Hungary. An equal number of young Hungarians will be coming to do research in the U.S. InterFuture is a non-profit educational organization founded at Princeton in 1969. In cooperation with more than thirty colleges and universities IF organizes intensive training programs and provides the academic and administrative support necessary for students to design and carry out study projects as part of their regular degree programs. Nominated by their colleges in the spring of sophomore or freshman year, U.S. students each choose an individual topic of research, related to his or her interest. Fine arts, economics, social services, agriculture, folklore, and education are just some-of the fields of involvement. Students also have the option of conducting comparative studies in Hungary and one of the 12 other countries where the program is established. Students will usually be abroad during the second semester of junior year. On return, students present their findings in papers and talks to their campuses and interested groups in the community. Hungarian participants will come to the U.S. usually for a semester to conduct research on topics of their own selection. IF will be asking colleges and community organizations to assist with academic advising and home-stay hospitality. In regard to financial support, Harry M. Matthews, Jr., vice-president informed us that IF is a train ing and facilitative agency not a grant-making one. However, in most cases the IF project becomes part of a student’s regular undergraduate program and consequently the on-campus aid received by the student can be applied to the overseas project. Participating institutions: Assumption Coll., Avila Coll., Barat Coll., Chicago St.U., DePaul U., U. of Delaware, George Washington U., George Williams Coll., Hampshire Coll., Lindenwood Coll., Maryville Coll., theC.W. Post and Southampton Center of Long Island U., Loyola U. of Chicago, U. of Maine at Orono, U. of Maryland — Eastern Shore, Marymount Coll., New York, U. of Missouri at Kansas City, New College of the U. of South Florida, City U. of New York, Pace U., U. of the Pacific, Point Loma Coll., Ramapo Coll, of New Jersey, U. of Richmond, Seton Hall U., Suffolk U., Shippensburg U., Trinity Coll, at the District of Columbia, Villanova U. Interested persons and institutions may contact InterFuture at 150 Nassau Street, New York, NY 10038. At the cooperating campuses nomination for participation in the Hungary program lies usually with the director of the honors program or the head of the international programs office. BOOKS Gunda, Bela ed„ THE FISHING CULTURE OF THE WORLD: STUDIES IN ETHNOLOGY, CULTURAL ECOLOGY AND FOLKLORE. 2 vols. Budapest: Akadémiai, 1984.1253 pages, tables, diagrams, illus. $59.00 cloth. Dedicated to the Danish ethnologist Holger Rasmussen (1915-), this comprehensive two-volume encyclopedic work consists of a collection of 56 studies (41 in English, 10 in German, and 5 in French) related to fish and fishing the world over. Hungarian ethnologists initiated the regular study of European fishing practices, and the great variety of their professional interests is well reflected in this opus. The editor included one of his own studies on fish poisoning in the Carpathian Basin and in the Balkan Peninsula (pp. 181- 222). Others concerned themselves with fishing ecology, lifestyles of fishermen, organization of their work, forms and use of fishing implements, mythology of fish and fishing, fish conservation, fish as a source of nutrition, and alike. Cultural areas were selected from all parts of the globe, i.e., the continents and many islands, rich fishing traditions of the Far East, salmon fishing practices in the northwest of the U.S., too many to list in a brief review like this. The two volumes will satisfy not only the sophisticated specialist but it will provide enjoyable reading for the general reader. NO. 41. AURJMN 1984, HUNGARIAN STUDIES NEWSLETTER The editor is prof, emeritus of the Kossuth L.U. and director of the Ethnological Institute of the same. Bakay, Louis, GALLERY OF GHOSTS. The book can be obtained from the author: 152 Bryant Street, Buffalo, NY 14222, 1983. 192 pages. $13.50. This is the autobiog raphy of a widely-known and respected physician (a kis Bakay), who was born at Pozsony (now Bratislava, Czechoslovakia) in 1917. He was 22 years old when World War II stopped life as it was in Hungary and confronted millions with an uncertain future. Physicians did not fare differently. Bakay and his father, also a famous surgeon and holder of the highest possible civic honors, survived the German and Russian invasions. The fate of the family described in this book mirrors the history of Hungary and illustrates how the dreams and ambitions of such highly skilled professionals were shattered and ultimately forced them to emigrate and acknowledge the loss of some ten years of their most productive life. At a recent visit to Hungary the author found he could revert to old social habits in a week or two, but he could not adjust to gestures representing lack of freedom as revealed in several incidents. As other similar autobiographies, the value of the volume is in its empirical evidence of historical times. The author is professor and chairman of the Department of Neurosurgery at the State U. of New York, Buffalo. He is the (Continued on Page 2)
