A Móra Ferenc Múzeum Évkönyve: Studia Ethnographica 6. (Szeged, 2008)

Banner János: Szeged tárgyi néprajza Tömörkény munkáiban

210 XII. 138., X. 121. [Mari kártyái. 7:36; Emlékezés. 5:50] 211 XIII. 154. [Ilyen a hajózat! 5:300] 212 X. 76. [Hajósok. 5:67] 213 III. 52. [Parti hely. 2:260] 214 XIII. 53. [Történet a gyermekről. 4:16] 2,5 III. 53. [Parti hely. 2:60] 216 XIV. 9. [Barlanglakók. 5:20] 217 Fehérvári Antal: A tanyai ember krónikása. Forrás I. 3. 372. 218 Preszly Lóránd: A szegedi népies írók. Széphalom, 1931. Szeged's Ethnography in Tömörkény's Works by JÁNOS BANNER (1888-1971) Archeologist and ethnographer János Banner's manuscript was supposedly born from his university lecture notes (1922/23) and took its final form presumably in 1943. After several decades, in 2006, owing to the scientist's nephew, the manuscript, which is a highly significant work of the history of science, was offered from the scientist's legacy to the databank of Móra Ferenc Museum. In the Introduction, he praises the great ancestor by saying that "His area of study, apart from belles-lettres, focused primarily on ethnography. He was the founder of the Department of Ethnography in the museum of Szeged. His ethnographic articles were published in periodicals 'Ethnographia' and 'Néprajzi Értesítő: Annales Musei Ethnographiae'. ...All works of István Tömörkény's are a vivid, living treasury of Hungarian ethnography. In his literary compositions we can trace the ethnography of the wider Szeged region, the dry facts fill with life and they are brought closer to us." In the paper. Banner collected all ethnographic data found in István Tömörkény's belles lettres according to the relevant categories of the contemporary professional literature. The thematic parts - at editor László Peter's suggestion - are presented in the following chapters: homestead, wear, food, work, carriage, shepherds, navvies, inns, waterborne transporters, fishermen, boatmen. In the Afterword he highlights that the"ethnographic curiosities" in the great writer's works are embedded in the entirety of peasant life since "he does not view them through the eyes of a prosaic scientist".