Liszka József (szerk.): Az Etnológiai Központ Évkönyve 2000-2001 - Acta Ethnologica Danubiana 2-3. (Dunaszerdahely-Komárom, 2001)
1. Tanulmányok - Danglová, Ol'ga: Az etnicitás mint a lokális és regionális identitás összetevője
spread with the help of published patterns and postcards. Slovak patriots attempted to promote their use in the so-called national costume, by which the nationality of wearers would be manifested. The map showing the spatial distribution of “urbanized” and traditional costume indicates further connections. It points to the stronger conservatism of the Slovak population, living more in the mountainous central and north-eastern regions and the greater openness to innovations of the Hungarian population, living in the lowland zones of the south and west of the county. However, this purely ethnic interpretation would not be complete without the sociocultural and economic dimensions. In the central and northern parts, a more self-sufficient and archaic form of agricultural economy prevailed and this was associated with a more closed way of life, while in the more productive agricultural areas of the south and west, with a predominance of large estate farms, more modem forms of agricultural production were applied, with an orientation towards the external market. Here, the village population had the possibility to get to know more advanced elements of agrarian culture, and apply them also to their own small farms. The proletarianized group in the population, agricultural labourers working for wages on large estates, was not tied to the soil, and so it was more open to innovation. Elements of urban culture were naturally also more intensively adapted in communities, where the lesser nobility had a strong cultural influence. As a result of insufficient analytical research on the social phenomenon of identity in the borderland of Hont in the temporally defined section of the past - the first half of the 20th century - we can formulate only a narrow incomplete answer in relation to local, ethnic and religious consciousness, based on local, regional, ethnic and religious symbolism in material or artistic culture is as follows: Local identity, associated with ethnic and religious identity, had the most important place in the hierarchy of group identities for the inhabitants of Hont in the first half of the 20th century. Cultural elements, which people saw as differentiating by ethnic origin or religion were expressed as part of the local or regional cultural specifics. Clearly, this picture of Hont as a border cultural area is no longer valid today. Especially the complex of material, aesthetic and symbolic values, which indicated the group identity of individual local and regional groups has lost validity. However, the long-term multi-cultural contacts, the perception of ethnic and religious differentiation as something natural, still characterize this region in the sense of a developed level of tolerance. References Babinski, G.l 1996 The Ideologies of Borderland. In: Borderlands Culture Identity. Ed. Kantor, R. Institute of ethnology Jagiellonian University. Crakow, s. 19-25. Csepeli, G. 1989 Structures and Contens of Hungarian National Identity. Results of Political Socialization and Cultivation. Verlag Peter Lang. Frankfurt am Main. Bem. New York, Paris. Danglová, O. 1973 K otázke variačného procesu v hontianskej ľudovej výšivke. In: Slovenský národopis, 21, s. 23-49 90
