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Bihari-Horváth László: Szarvaskő „etnomalakológiája” - Az éti csiga gyűjtögetése és fogyasztása egy Heves megyei lokális közösségben

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mti.hu/Pages/News.aspx?date= 19900503& ni=277822&ty=l - honlaplátogatás ideje: 2011. augusztus 25. 2003 Éti csiga - kisebb kvóta, jobb szezon. Forrás: http://www.greenfo.hu/hirek/ hirek_ item.php?hir=4087 - honlaplátogatás ideje: 2011. augusztus 25. 2010 Éticsiga Terméktanács: évi 2.000 tonna éti csigát lehet begyűjteni. Forrás: http://www.agrotrend.hu/hirek/allattenyesztes/135971 - honlaplátogatás ideje: 2011. augusztus 24. ZOLTÁN 2002 Lassú, de biztos. Forrás: http://mezohir.hu/mezohir/2002/04/lassu-de-biztos/ - honlaplátogatás ideje: 2011. augusztus 25. László Bihari-Horváth „Ethnomalacology" of Szarvaskő Gathering and consumption of the escargot in a local community in Heves county In my study I publish the results of a recent ethnozoological-ethnographical research. The research conducted in 2011 in Szarvaskő, Heves county, deals with several issues: firstly, how snails appear in the local community's ecological body of knowledge; secondly, the role the gathering of the escargot (Helix pomatia) plays in the settlement's microeconomy; thirdly, whether snail dishes appeared in Szarvaskő'

s traditional nourishment culture as the result of gathering. One of the results of my research is the recognition, that a macroeconomic change occured in the middle of the 20

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h century, the appearance of the commercial demand of the escargot with an exports aim, and its expansion contributed to the widening of the snail related knowledge of the people of Szarvaskő. As a result of the demand, not only the technique of gathering the animal, but its lifestyle and preparing as food was learned and experienced by local community's members. All this knowledge spread among eldery women leading traditional (food gatherer) lifestyle, in the era of the great transformation (disappearance) of the traditional peasant culture. But primarily the weakening of the exports demand, and partly a change in the local community (decreasing number of eldery women, increasing number of new inhabitants) ended the escargot gathering by now. The decline of these activities led to a re-fading of the snail related ecological knowledge and resulted in the termination of the snail consumption. 326