Hungarian Studies Newsletter, 1973 (1. évfolyam, 1-2. szám)
1973 / 2. szám
siHUNGARIAN ^$11 STUDIES stZáMlNEWSLETTER No. 2 Fall 1973 published three times a year by the HUNGARIAN RESEARCH CENTER Subscription: $3.00 per annum. Single copy: $1.00 Communications concerning content should be sent to Dr. Bela C. Maday, Editor 452849th Street, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20016 Subscriptions and communications concerning circulation should be mailed to the Hungarian Research Center American Hungarian Studies Foundation P.O. Box 1084, New Brunswick, N.J. 08903 BOOKS Anderson, Robert T. MODERN EUROPE: AN ANTHROPOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE. Pacific Palisades, California: Goodyear Publishing Company, 1973.163 pages, bibliography. $7.95, cloth; $5.95, paper. This book is concerned primarily with Europe as it is today-in a state of rapid change. Against the background of traditional Europe in the early nineteenth century, the author deals with modern Europe, using an interpretive scheme that brings order to the seemingly vast diversity of European societies. The immediate present is represented by accounts of lives of real people, not the fictionalized and romanticized stereotypes of the peasant and Gypsy. The author takes his documentation of modern European life from recent anthropological research on culture change by a large number of scholars (including himself), yet he provides a unified account in terms of global processes of acculturation and cultural differentiation. Chapters on "Traditional Europe," "The Upper Class in Our Time," "Rise of the Working Class," "From Peasant to Farmer," are followed by chapters concerned with regional characteristics. Chapter nine is on "Communist Countrymen: Ideology and Change," and makes specific references to Hungary, Poland, Yugoslavia, and the Soviet Union. Chapter ten, "Minority Enclaves: Ethnicity and Change,” has subdivisions on Gypsies and Jews. The bibliography has an extensive listing of anthropological literature concerning European cultures. Benkö, LÓránd and Samu Imre (eds), THE HUNGARIAN LANGUAGE. The Hague and Budapest: Mouton and Akade'miai Kiadod 1972. (Janua Linguarum, Series Practica 134) Translated by Imre Gombos, Agnes Jávor and Akos Buttykai. 379 pages, 16 facsimilies, bibliography. $27.50. paper. The interest of this volume presenting a detailed account of the Hungarian language is only enhanced by the circumstance that it is some 60 years since a comprehensive summary work of this kind was last published. Aiming at a full-scale presentation of Hungarian, the book offers an insight into the past history and the most important characteristic features of Finno-Ugrian linguistic relationship, the system of Hungarian phonology, grammar and orthography. The various layers of the Hungarian wordstock including loanwords, the proper names, the development of standard Hungarian and dialectal differentiations are treated in special chapters, and so are questions of early Hungarian texts and the history of Hungarian liguistics. Each paper is complemented with a select bibliography of the subject-matter. The particular studies are featured by a historical approach, but also the actual state of the language receives a thorough consideration, so that eventually an appropriate combination of synchronic and diachronic aspects helps the reader to obtain an overall orientation. Historical and educational problems are also treated parallel with strictly linguistic matters, involving a good deal of information about the history of the Hungarian nation, as well as its ancient and modern cultural achievements. The authors representing the best standards of their special fields of research, being university teachers, leading scientific officers of the Institute for Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, have adduced their results with a great number of examples and in a clear style meeting the (Continued on page 3) ACADEMIES (Continued from page 1) (Mathematics) U. of Wisconsin; István Lengyel (Org. Chemistry) St. John’s U.; Boyd L. O’Dell (Biochemistry) U. of Missouri: C.C. Hsiao (Mechanical Engineering) U. of Minnesota; Victor Szebehely (Mechanics) U. of Texas, Austin; Alan I. Leshner (Physiological Psychology) Bucknell U.; Julius Alker (Geology) U. of North Carolina; William Agocs (Geophysics) Kutztown State Coll. Hungarian participants in the United States (in chronological order of their visits) Lajos Takács (Experimental Nephrology) 2nd Department of Medicine; József Szirtes (Neuropsychology-speech) Inst, of Psychology; Peter Zavodszky (X-ray Crystallography of proteins) Biochemical Inst.; István Teplán (Peptidesynthesis) Isotope Inst.; Elemér Lábos (Neurophysiology) Semmelweisz Medical School; Béla Flerkó (Anatomy) U. of Pe'cs; György Ada'm (Learning) Inst, of Psychology; Gergely Krammer (Computer design) Research Inst, for Automation; Levente Mate' (Computers) Research Inst, for Automation; Pal Teteny (Chemistry) Deputy Secretary General, HAS; Zoltán Szabó' (Chemistry) Technical U.; György Marx (Physics) Inst, for Theoretical Physics; György Pocsik (Physics) Inst, for Theoretical Physics; Lénárd Pal (Physics) Eötvös U.; György Göncöl (Economics) Inst, of Economic Sciences; László' Töke (Org. Chemistry) Technical U.; András Lévai (Nuclear Power Plants) Technical U.; Endre Vatai (Nuclear Spectroscopy) Inst, of Nuclear Research; Béla Bukulya (Experimental Embryology) Inst, of Experimental Medicine; Árpád Veres (Physics) Isotope Inst.; István Lang (Biology) HAS; Pal Gömöri (Internal diseases) Eötvös U.; Karoly Lempe'rt (Org. Chemistry) Eötvös U.; Pal Nagy- Juhász (Biosphere research) Eötvös U.; László Bozóky (Radiology) National Oncological Inst.; Mihály Ihász (Vagotomy) Eötvös U. 2 HUNGARIAN STUDIES NEWSLETTER
