Liszka József (szerk.): Az Etnológiai Központ Évkönyve 2000-2001 - Acta Ethnologica Danubiana 2-3. (Dunaszerdahely-Komárom, 2001)
1. Tanulmányok - Alexander Fenton: Zárszó
Stará Lesná was not a terminus post quern non, but signalled a new beginning, a crossing of a boundary. It seems to me that even if we have produced no international maps since then, we have nevertheless thrown much light, in our meetings and publications, on important questions of identity, and on our understanding of all the bewildering kaleidoscopic aspects of identity which, chameleon like, is always changing. Our understanding has been further enhanced by this present meeting on boundaries as an ethnographical problem. The programme was carefully constructed so as to throw light on kinds of boundaries, histories of boundaries, ethnographic atlases and cultural organisation, and ethnic, geographical and cultural boundaries. Indeed, the whole Meeting was excellently organised. We owe a great debt to Dr József Liszka, and to the Institut für Sozialwissenschaften Forum, Forschungszentrum für Ethnologie/ Institute for Social Sciences Forum. Institute for Ethnology, for having undertaken the task. And we should not forget that behind every man there is a good woman - and Mrs Ilona Juhász-Liszka has looked after every practical detail, even recording us all photographically for posterity. Two things deserve to be especially mentioned, since they point to continuity of national, if not international, atlas work. Dr Josef Vafeka presented volume III of the newly published Etnografický Atlas Cech, Moravy a Slezska/ Ethnographic Atlas of Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia, as a concrete reminder that good ethnological atlas production is still going on. And Balázs Borsos showed how important re-interpretation of data in previously published ethnographic atlases - in this case the Magyar Néprajzi Atlasz/Atlas of Hungarian Ethnography, begun in 1939 - using a computer programme of cluster analysis, could be accomplished by means of modem electronic tools. In conclusion, on a personal note, I should say that it has been a great pleasure for me to come to Komárno, and to meet old friends and make new ones. Dr Liszka had organised everything so well that I had nothing to do as Secretary. It was also a pleasure to work again with my old friend, Professor H. L. Cox. Now both of us are retiring from office in the Group, though we shall wish to stay in contact. We are handing over our functions to Dr Gábor Barna, Szeged, and to Dr Thomas K. Schippers, Nice. They will now be responsible for the continuity of the Group, and for finding new directions, in line with the changing needs of the world. We wish them well. És végül, mindenekelőtt, nagyon köszönjük Jóska és a Fórum Intézet munkáját! 224
