Ethnic Traditions, Classes and Communities in Hungary [antikvár]

ethnic traditions, classes and communities in hungary Attila Paladi-Kovacs The articles in this volume were written over a period of roughly ten years. The majority were presented at international congresses and seminars. Footnotes at the beginning of the articles indicate if they have been published in congress acts or elsewhere. This volume does not give a comprehensive picture of traditional Hungarian society and culture. It aims instead to analyse some important details, constituent elements and processes, to portray stages and phases in folk history, interethnic relations, persistent and changing features of mentality and important components of the social structure (e.g. lesser nobility, working class), applying the approach of European ethnology. This approach is characterised by historism, the effort to explore the social facts and their historical background, the search for phenomena of continuity and discontinuity. The volume can be of use to general readers, ethnologists, anthropologists, historians, sociologists and other social scientists with an interest in the Hungarian people and the Carpathian Basin in general.