A Móra Ferenc Múzeum Évkönyve: Studia Ethnographica 5. (Szeged, 2005)

Medgyesi Konstantin: Lovak, lókupecek és lóügyletek a koalíciós évek Makóján

A koalíciós évek makói térségbéli viszonyait tehát alapvetően határozta meg a lótól vaj lás és a lócsempészet kérdése. Az utána következő időkben ez sokat változott, de - mint tudjuk - az már egy egészen más korszakot jelent. Horses, Horse-dealers and Horse Affairs in Makó during the Coalition Period by KONSTANTIN MEDGYESI When in present study we discuss horses and affairs connected to them, we do not concentrate on the noble animal itself, but rather on the social environment surrounding it. The world of the coalition years (1944-1948) was the last historical period in Hungary, when horses played an essential role in the life of individuals and communities. In those years, horse's aid in fieldwork was simply indispensable for peasants. However, later on due to both agricultural development and modernization, as well as to the ideal of the Socialist Era (industrialization) more and more machines, i.e. tractors appeared in order to support the everyday life of those living on agriculture. Parallel to this, horses were replaced by machines. Consequently Makó is an appropriate field in order to elaborate this topic, as in the territory of the one time county seat of Csongrád, horses played a significant role similarly to other settlements on the Great Hungarian Plain. Peasants growing mainly onions used horses usually as plough-horses. Nonetheless, due to the system of land possession characteristic in Makó, landowners had landed properties far away from each other, thus distances were easier to cover by horses or carriages. Therefore it is not by chance, that a horse was considered as treasure for the inhabitants of Makó. 163