Paládi-Kovács Attila: A Barkóság és népe (Miskolc, 2006)

Angol nyelvű összefoglaló

With respect to folk games there are several sports of this kind played by the Barkós, where teams of boys played against one another with wooden balls and striking sticks. They are called mancsozás, guncsa and méta. Worthy of mention among the girls' games of song and dance is the bridge game which is also very widespread among the western Slavic peoples. 12. When analyzing the specifics of the folk-life of the Barkó group, the author begins by viewing the specifics of the northern ethnic area and the highlands as a cultural region. He stresses the ecological factor and the role of Hungarian-Slavic cultural interaction in the creation of the regional unity of the culture. The cultural elements characterizing the whole region are to a good extent, made up of the folk culture of the Barkós. The author examines stratification within the region, certain factors of the cultural zones which are in the transitional areas, the highlands as a marginal area and the Plain region as an innovative areas which is a central ethnic zone, and the relationship between the two. Finally he sets up ten points to sum up the characteristics which give the Barkó ethnic group its individual character (the contrast between the hilly region and its surroundings, the continuity of the Hungarian population, the high ratio of nobility as a population element, endogamous trends within the Barkó group, the Roman Catholic religion, the uniform folk language (dialect), the awareness of identity of the Barkó ethnic group, the ethnonym Barkó and the existence of the geographical name Barkóság, the operation of the internal communication of the region, the unity of progress in the industrial era). MAPS Map 1. The area known as the Barkó region in ethnographic literature prior to 1910. Map 2. The area known to the local people as the Barkó region. Map 3. The more important religious denominations in the mid-19th Century. A = Protestant village, B = Roman Catholic village, C = roughly equal numbers of Protestant and Roman Catholics, D = Catholic majority Protestant minority. Map 4. Villages of nobility and serfs in the mid-19th Century. A = serf village, B = village of the lesser nobility. Map. 5. The size of the forests at the end of the 19th Century.