Cseri Miklós: Néprajz és muzeológia, Tanulmányok a népi építészet és a múzeumi etnográfia köréből (Studia Folkloristica et Ethnographica 51. Debrecen ,Szentendre, Debreceni Egyetem Néprajzi Tanszék, 2009)

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impact on the settlement structure, too. Thus, it is obvious that the differences presented in this paper can be observed only in people's memory and in specific sources of information. AN OUTLINE OF FOLK ARCHITECTURE IN THE BODROGKÖZ REGION I believe that the oft-noted disadvantaged position of Bodrogköz surrounded by the rivers Tisza-Bodrog-Lalorea

, from the aspect of ethnographical research is still valid today. This is especially true for the exploration of traditional folk architecture and residential culture. Although I have found more than two dozen related articles while preparing for this presentation, their scholarly level as well as their geographical and thematic distribution prove to be rather diverse. I am convinced that the setdement structure and folk architecture in the Bodrogköz region is a complex area that nonetheless might reveal a lot of results and archaisms for the researchers. Tire issues of dual inlots, raftered roof structures, "kabalád' furnaces, the formal and structural impacts from die regions of Alföld, Szatmár and Hegyköz and the questions of barns constitute the junctions whose exploration or the answers to the potential questions about might complete our body of knowledge concerning the Bodrogköz area. At the same time, this region, which used to be considered in the circles of ethnographic research a closed area, "frozen" in its folk culture, could be the subject of research projects focusing upon how it assirrtilated the cultural influences of the surrounding plains and mountains, which also represent opposite economic systems. The relationship of the folk culture, including the folk architecture, of the section called Bodrogzug - previously, Szigetköz- to the that of the other, more uniform, parts of Bodrogköz'

s definitely worth researching. One of the discernible tendencies is that it has always been these few setdements that have displayed discrepancies or potential curiosities in the Bodrogköz region apart from the general characteristic features. FOLK RESIDENTIAL CULTURE IN THE SZUHA VALLEY Tire settlements of Szubafő, Zádorfalva

, and Ahószuha used to be the headquarters of troops commanded by noblemen whose descendants managed to sustain their former social prestige and lifestyle up until quite recently in opposition to the lower-class members of the population in the same neighborhoods or locales. The objective of my paper, apart from presenting the folk residential culture of the Szuha Valley, is to point out the differences between the two social layers living here, which are primarily due to social and financial reasons. The two basic forms outlined in the paper represent two poles within the residential culture of the region. Between diem, however, there is quite a number of varieties, depending on the current social, economic, and personal situation of the given families who act as builders. The representatives of die noble class could accomplish the change of quality that we could observe in their residential culture by relying on dieir more favorable possibilities. The fact diat, in the case of peasants, die lag was not due to conscious conservatism can be quite well illustrated by how, after the end of World War II and due to the impact of the new economic and social conditions, their residential culture underwent a very quick change indeed. In the time period under scrutiny, the tendency that could be discerned was basically that the descendants of the noble folk kept on integrating the most recent elements of architecture and residential culture owing to their more favorable possibilities, and these were then mostly copied by the peasants with a little delay and in a reductive fashion according to their own, more modest, possibilities. 412