Szirácsik Éva (szerk.): Neograd 2009 - A Nógrád Megyei Múzeumok Évkönyve 33. (Salgótarján, 2010)
Sallayné Peterdi Vera: Életmódkutatás térben és időben - Módszertani áttekintés
NEOGRAD 2009 NÓGRÁD MÚZEUMOK ÉVKÖNYVE XXXIII. Research of Lifestyle in Space and Time By Sallayné Vera Peterdi The study is a methodological overview of the emergence, history, characteristics of the so called ’lifestyle research’, one of the survey methods in modern and contemporary historical museology. First, the concept and the special time and space framework are explained, then outlines are given of the new scientific branch in modern age historical museology emerging in socialist era (appearance, structure and characteristics). With researching the social stratum of workers in the 20th century from the 1950s and mainly displaying at exhibitions - besides its embedded ideological character - this special field is the first to use the social history writing methods starting with the 1970s. When introducing the lifestyle of Hungarian worker stratum it takes upon complicated (and thus with difficulty or not classifiable) scientific research and collection of the object world of contemporary urban society and culture - but not without contradictions and problems. Mass produced factory articles of everyday use, authentic objects well documenting workers’ life circumstances are raised to the rank of historical sources and museum artefacts which had earlier not been accepted by historical museology. Besides representing work tools and circumstances it is extending more and more dominantly to the culture of wear and homes and the history of housing and consumption. Later it opens towards the bourgeois strata and other areas as well. Its research methods are etnographical and anthropological fieldwork, participant observation, source research based on social history methods and other contemporary surveys. It tries to build interdisciplinary connections with these fields of science. The overview touches the newest museological research methods of the topic also. 73
