Wicker Erika (szerk.): Cumania 27. - A Kecskeméti Katona József Múzeum évkönyve (Kecskemét, 2016)
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Summaries Italian story, the Madonna Modesta. A globe-trotter anecdote in the borderlands of vernacular romanticism, 'The wise Násya' by Mikszáth. The modest lady in Kecskemét. Summary. László Kürti pp. 177-218 THE DANCES OF THE KISKUNSÁG - ANTHROPOLOGICAL REFLECTIONS ON THE FOLK DANCE TRADITIONS OF A REGION The aim of presenting the traditional folk dances of the Kiskunság region is to reveal dance historical style-layers and study the territorial spreading patterns. Primarily, the paper debates the dance folkloristic identification of the Kiskunság region as part of the western dance dialect. The fundamental question concerning the region's position among dance dialects is: what kind of surveys determined the place of the Kiskunság region — together with its specific historical and political past — among the dance dialects? In other words: which were those communities whose traditions mainly contributed to the image of folk dances in the region and formed the general impression about the Kiskunság? The present paper intends to answer all these questions by introducing the folk dances and dancing traditions of the Kiskunság region, and after that suggests to classify the Kiskunság area as part of the middle dance dialect. The study is supported by ethnographical as well as historical records from Apaj, Bugac, Fülöpháza, Fülöpszállás, Jászföld, Kecskemét, Kiskundorozsma, Kiskunfélegyháza, Kiskunhalas, Kiskunlacháza, Kiskunmajsa, Kunszentmiklós and Szabadszállás. Gábor Tuza pp. 219-228 THE EXPRESSION OF CULTURAL IDENTITY THROUGH TWO JAPANESE DOLL-TYPES The five hundred artifacts of the Szórakaténusz Toy Museum and Workshop incorporate most material fields of Japanese toy culture. The dolls called Kokeshi are the oldest concerning traditions; in the course of time they became widespread in the whole territory of Japan. Those who possessed such doll, and whose children played with them, could confidently expect superior crop yields. The heads of the longish dolls are rough; the faces are stylized, decorated only with touches. The Daruma-dolls were too intended to ask for and bring good luck; in a way that one eye was painted when the owner asked for something. If the request was successful then the other eye-ball was also drawn. The spreading of toys across various cultures cannot be interpreted as a feature of globalization, as the appearance of Japanese dolls in Europe dates back to the late nineteenth century; it dispersed as a bizarre memory of the Russian-Japanese war in Russia. The first matryoshka doll in Russian fashion was produced in 1890. LOCAL HISTORY Erzsébet Bánkiné Molnár pp. 229-240 THE ACTIVITY OF ISTVÁN GYÁRFÁS IN THE PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION OF THE JASSIC-CUMAN DISTRICT István Gyárfás's career in public administration had begun in Kiskunhalas, in 1847, where he was elected as a vice-notary. In 1848 he became the representative for the Jassic-Cuman District, 393
