Torsello, Davide - Pappová, Melinda: Social Networks in Movement. Time, interaction and interethnic spaces in Central Eastern Europe - Nostra Tempora 8. (Somorja-Dunaszerdahely, 2003)
Time and social networks
Traditional economic life 89 3. Traditional economic life in the northern part of the Danube Lowland1 Izabella Danter If we examine the results of the Hungarian ethnographic research in Slovakia achieved so far, we see that while some fields, such as folk customs, national costumes, folk dance or folk music, have been sufficiently described, documentation of the traditional peasant economic life seems to be wanting. In the previous decades, apart from the publication of few short descriptions and general overviews related to the theme, only a few ethnographers from Slovakia and Hungary have published extensive research on the subject.2 Their studies appeared mainly in Slovakian publications. In the second half of the eighties, Magda Fehérváryné Nagy carried out an extensive survey on peasant economic life in Kolárovo. The results of her research were published in 1998 in an independent volume (Lifestyle and tradition) of
