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A gyermekakarás néprajzi szempontú egzisztenciális kérdései
The Existential Questions of Child Willing with Ethnographic Aspect

Author(s): Lajos Balázs
Subject(s): Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology
Published by: Филозофски факултет, Универзитет у Новом Саду
Keywords: ethnography; family; willing a child; child breeding; child cult; peasant society; infertility; existence

Summary/Abstract: Although the peasantry has no itemized doctrine in any kind of relevance, the author still tries to shed light on the peasant society elaborating and maintaining a very complex “child policy”, “demographic policy” for centuries in its culture and through it, only the world does not know, or hardly knows about it. Not only enforced this in its own way on some restricted and casually appearing areas, but it promoted to tradition and introduced it in that way. Hereby, it guaranteed its function, since it was interested in this socially, economically, and existentially. What is by far the most exemplary – the author puts special emphasis on this and sees the topicality of the peasant child cult in it – is that it has made a natural consciousness factor by keeping it alive culturally, morally and religiously, and also made the case of child breeding, a child acceptance and child care the object of public thinking.

  • Issue Year: 2015
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 51-68
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: Hungarian
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