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Loving Village Studies

An Ethnologist’s Marginal Notes to Zsigmond Zalabai’s Village Studies

Summary/Abstract: The study comments on two books of village studies by Zsigmond Zalabai (Mindenekről számot adok [I Recount Everything], Hazahív a harangszó [The Bells Call Me Home]) and other writings related to the topic, mainly from the perspective of ethnology (and its related disciplines). On the one hand, it attempts to place the historical and ethnographic tableau drawn by Zalabai in the context of country and landscape descriptions of similar perspective and method in historical terms (from the 18th century to the present day), and on the other hand, it examines what concrete lessons the data and observations published by Zalabai and the author's attempts to interpret them can provide for traditional ethnography, comparative ethnology, or cultural anthropology.

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