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Néprajzi tanulmányok - Sári Zsolt: A magyar diaszpóra kutatása a Szabadtéri Néprajzi Múzeumban
SÁRI ZSOLT: A MAGYAR DIASZPÓRA KUTATÁSA A SZABADTÉRI NÉPRAJZI MÚZEUMBAN Zsolt Sári The research of the Hungarian diaspore in the Open-Air Ethnography Museum The Open-Air Ethnography Museum collects its objects in a new ethnographic, anthropologic context with the methodology of the contemporary - international - open-air museology. This is based on the individual or community stories behind the objects and the museology approach what states that the tasks of a public collection on top of collecting, storing, presenting are teaching, dazzling and reacting to economic and social problems. The need to widen thematic, space and time appeared in the open-air museology. For us it meant the introduction of social groups other than the peasantry, the widening of timeframe, and the widening of space means the research of the over the border territories and the diaspore. In my article I want to introduce the researches concerning Pennsylvania (USA) and Chaco (Argentina) part of the diaspore buildings through the description of the selected ‘burdosház’ and ‘Pajor’ farm. In April, 2012 we bought and moved to Hungary the furniture of the so-called “burdosház’, grocery and meat market from Vintondale. The “burdos ház”, the Hungarian-like skewed version of boarding house, was a kind of a pension where men from the mines rented beds. Until the near-past the furniture of the shop was nearly complete in its state from the end of the 1920s, that’s what we managed to get. Largest mass of Hungarians of Chaco (Argentina) arrived between the two world wars, but a small part already appeared during the years of the First World War (1916-18). The motivation is twofold, economical, in hope of a better life, in the other hand the young men of the ceded territories fearing the conscription into the armies of the successor states. The main building of the selected, bought, demolished and transferred farm, built in 1917 is a porched, kitchen-room-room-bathroom scheduled, flat roofed rectangular building. There are several economic and outbuildings in the household: outside oven, restroom, chicken and pig pen, shop, processer, wells, cisterns, cart barn, pig slaughter shed. 463
