Vankóné Dudás Juli: Falum, Galgamácsa. Második, bővített kiadás (Studia Comitatensia 12. Szentendre, 1983)

Juli Dudás Vankó: GALGAMACSA, MY VILLAGE (Summary) This volume is the second, ampflified edition of the publication of the same title. The folkloristic and ethnographical material of this book has been complemented with the representation of the funeral customs, with those of the vintage, of the christening, and in addition it contains also the notes to the two hundred folk-songs and rhytmed sayings which are to be found irb-the book. Its illustrations, at the same time, will delight the researchers of naive painting. In this book a peasant woman of 64, Juli Dudás, the wife of Imre Vankó, described and depicted everything she knew about her birth-place, a village located at a distance of 40 kilometres north-east of Budapest. Juli Dudás is a versatile folk artist who has been painting, singing, making embroideries as well as leading a group of folk-singers and dancers for more than 45 years. The Introduction rounding out and commenting on the chapters was written by Ildikó I. Sándor, the ethnographer on the staff of the Ferenczy Museum in Szentendre. She edited the author's manuscript and prepared it for the printers and also selected the illustrations to the publication. Her preparatory work which spanned several years went parallel with a collecting of objects as a result of which almost all the items mentioned in the book — primarily clothing — has been deposited in the Szentendre Museum. The indexes to the volume has also been compiled by Ildikó I. Sándor. The noting down of the melodies is the work of Emese Sz. Ikvai. The Introduction (BEVEZETŐ) presents the village on the small river Galga which has preserved its own ethnographic relics to this day. The group of 8 to 10 villages in the region lying along the Galga forms an ethnic unit, which is an extension of a larger ethnic group, the „Palóc", living on the north, amongst whom more research has been conducted so far. This book is written about the life of Galgamácsa, a village safeguarding its traditions, as it is veiwed from the inside, by a person, who lives there like every other people in the village. The Introduction is complemented by an ethnographical bibliography concerning the village. Essentially the first chapter: „My Village and My Life" (I. FALUM ÉS ÉLETEM) forms part of an autobiography in which the author makes us acquainted with her childhood spent in poverty, the years of schooling in the village, the consecutive periods of girlhood, wooing and marriage. In addition to an account of her everyday work and later on of her artistic experiences (her successes and failures) the author describes the events of family and village life, and even includes historical events such as the war, followed by liberation and the organization of co-operative farms. Juli Dudás gives a detailed account of her drawings, the important commissions she received (e. g. the mural paintings in hotels in Balatonfüred, Dunaújváros, Budapest and Tokyo) as well as of the films made of her and of the exhibitions that presented her art. The second chapter is entitled „Father, Mother, People and Memories" (II. APÁM, ANY AM, EMBEREK, EMLÉKEK). In the first section of this chapter the author writes about the motifs of her own particular life separated as it was from customary village life; she describes 479