A Herman Ottó Múzeum Évkönyve 19. (1980)

BODNÁR Zsuzsanna: Egy kárpátukrán falu lakáskultúrája

352 BODNÁR ZSUZSANNA raw or central arrangement as well. The cultic part contains the table and the corner bench completed by additions of magic function (statues, pictures) and those of ornamental function like family portrayals, table cloths, jugs, glasses, plates form the permanent equipage of a house. Facing the cultic area the oven and its surroundings formed the working corner, where all the house work was done and where women were to stay. The role of the house in the family's life is determined by the rythm of the peasant life changing periodically according to the seasons. The everyday work consisted of the daily cooking, making order, eating, sleeping. The added portions are sewing, weaving, bread-baking, washing, etc. The special occasions also had their stage in the house. Some of them are outstanding moments of human life : wedding, birth, sickness, death. Others are holidays, the special days and receiving of guests. Beside the natural and social circumstances the economic background ahd orthodoxy also influenced the formation of the housing culture in Komlóska. Since the village is separated not only in geographical but also in ethnical sense, the culture has preserved several archaic elements, showing but minor reflection to the largescale changes of the last decades. Zsuzsanna Bodnár