Nagy Gyula: A múzeum szolgálatában (A Békés Megyei Múzeumok Közleményei 10. Békéscsaba, 1986)

Chapter III. contains the story of how I learnt to construct and edit essay-volumes and how to write books. The reader can acquainted with every phase of how to make a study. I have published my studies in the Hungarian ethnographic periodicals since 1950. Chronologically: Harvesting and treating out in Kérdő-farm, Kardoskút, Ethnographia 1954. The last horse-driven mill in work, Néprajzi Értesítő 1956. Baking a wedding-brioche in Orosháza and its surrounding, Néprajzi Közlemények 1958. Die Speicherung von Körnenrfrüchten (Getreide) in Orosháza, Acta Ethnographica 1964. Volk-technology of oil pressing in Baranya, Ethnographia 1965. The edition, press and distribution of six yearbooks show a real development. The most important among these is the two volumes monography of the history and ethnography of Orosháza. This was published on 1750 pages in 1965, with many illustrations. A whole team was organized for working on this theme. After this, I gave a detailed account of my three books on the Vásárhelypuszta. The one dealing with the traditional agriculture bears a documentary value as nowaday peasantry works in modern agricultural cooperations. The other book shows the stabling animal keeping in the farms. The huge volume on peasant life describes most of the moments of the life in the plain. These three books are complementary readings on the University in Budapest. I also published two studies in a west German periodical : Die Arbeitspasen des Erntens und Austretens in der mittleren Gedeng der Ungarischen auf dem Kérdő-Hof in Kardoskut, Zeitschrift für Ethnologie, Organ der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Völkerkunde 1961. Braunschweig. — Die Arbeitsphasen der herkömmlichen Feldbestellung im mittleren Teil der Grossen Ungarischen Tiefebene, auf der Puszta von Vásárhely, Zeitschrift für Ethnologie, Organ der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Völkerkunde 1971. Braunschweig. Chapter IV. contains the most important events of the 40 years, I had spent on the Museum of Orosháza. I documented with official papers how I become an ethnographer from a willage teacher, and how I worked with only a few collègues and in what circumstances. Some lines speak about the fact that I always worked heartly even on the works that promised only small results. In 1962 our museum got under the direction of the County Council of Békés. — Chapter V. decripts the building where I worked. This museum was not only my working office but also my home. Its building proved to be small from the very beginning. After a long official wragling we succeeded in getting a flat in the same building. I had moved into it, and left it only then, when it was possible to use the rooms for museal aims. We cared the good conduct of the building very much. It seemed to be necessary to rebuilt it for the use of our exhibitions. We also planned a new store-house for our improving collection but it could not be realized, so we modernized the old one. There are recollection in Chapter VI. Five well-known ethnographers told how they remembered the museum of Orosháza and its director. Other eight scholars who got the inspiration to their improvement reveal. — The last 193