ÿþ<!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-2"> <meta name="Author" content="-szobi."> <meta name="GENERATOR" content="-szobi."> <title>Néprajzi Múzeum - Tabula</title> </head> <body text="#000099" bgcolor="#FFFFEC" link="#0000EE" vlink="#551A8B" alink="#000099" background="../hatter.gif"> &nbsp; <table CELLSPACING=2 CELLPADDING=2 > <tr VALIGN=TOP> <td WIDTH="210"> <table CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 > <tr> <td><a href="../index.shtml"><img SRC="../logo.gif" BORDER=0 height=64 width=200></a></td> </tr> <tr> <td><nobr></nobr> <div align=right>&nbsp; <br> <p><b>11 (1-2)</b></p> </tr> </table> </td> <td> <font size="-1"> <a NAME="1"></a><b>TÜNDE TURAI: Old age as a passage in the walk of life - old peoples as a group</b><br><br> The author tries to give a new conceptualisation for the term  old age because she has found that the existing concepts in the anthropological literature are incomplete. Based on a case study in Transylvania the author argues that neither demographic categories nor social concepts of old age are insufficient in an actual anthropological research. The term  cultural old age will thus be introduced. It has two main aspects. (1) Life pathes are based on cultural models the inner organisation of which reflect similar structure. (2) Old age is not a period in one s life that will be reached on the basis of an individual aspect but it is defined both from inside and outside according to several events. In the particular community investigated by the author reaching old age is connected to the following principles: changes in the body, work ability, family status, economic situation, living conditions and representation of the old way of life.<br><br> <a NAME="2"></a><b>BEA DÖMÖTÖR: The accessible past - stories of one family </b><br><br> In my paper Idemonstrate a kind of identifying strategy that frequently remains invisible through the analysis of family history narratives of Musician Gypsies. The investigated family is not a subject of those surveys which analyses Gypsies as a disadvantaged stratum, or as communities with specified cultural features, or of those which study the identity of succesful Gypsies. Through the example of this family the multiple meanings of  Musician Gipsy appear, and unfolds the acceptability of this expression for them in different situations, how they can decide whether they are part of a(n ethnic) community or not  and what is the role of others eye in this decision. During my research i reckoned those people as Gypsies who identified themselves as Gypsies. But in the social interactions, which depend on different discourses, the individuals rarely can take advantage of self-determination freely. They face with the eyes of others, what inevitably determine their position. Throughout reflecting on these prejudices they try to define or reconstruct their relation to the world in a way which is best fitted to their intentions and goals. Also, the investigated family history narratives visualize a verbally organized past which is neither fiction nor reality. The attendee, the receiver who take part in the creation of meanings, can t take such an assigned position from which all other layers of representation are apprehensible. During the process of interpretation undecidableness prevails.<br><br> <a NAME="3"></a><b>JUDIT FARKAS: "Gyqrqfq is dead  Gyqrqfq is alive." A village and the nexly created story of power </b><br><br> This paper is based on an on-going research that focuses on ecovillages in Hungary, which are analysed from an anthropological point of view. Ecovillages are not seldom as topics in case study analyses and more general investigations in social sciences and some of their aspects appear also in Hungarian researches. Analysis of ecovillages' economy might play an important role in ecological economy and it may also contribute to the discourse concerning ecological movements and sustainable development. It will be dealt with the question of what kind of roles may play tradition and the invention of tradition in all of these processes. In the article the author main interest is in one aspect of Gyqrqfq as an ecovillage in Hungary: how did the founders of the new ecovillage connect the history of the old, desolated village Gyqrqfq with the new one.<br><br> <a NAME="4"></a><b>DIÁNA GERENCSÉR: "Lost in Yaoiland"  Anthropological investigations about a community web site </b><br><br> An internet community forum is investigated from an anthropological point of view, in this article. The forum has about two hundred members at the moment and the focus of its interest is a special kind if Japanese comics (<em>anime</em>) and cartoons (<em>manga</em>) that deals with homosexual relationship between men. The focus will lies on the question of how the forum s theme determines the community s organisation and operation. The author s interest is also in the similarities and differences of results for internet forums analyses and in the process of community organisation in a virtual space. <br><br> <a NAME="5"></a><b>LEHEL PETI: Religious dreams of crisis situations in a Csángó settlement in Moldavia</b><br><br> In this investigation the author tries to interpret the dream narratives of a Csángó village in Moldavia in order to articulate the crisis situations this community lives in. The focus is on understanding the changes in the Csángós religious world-view emerging during crisis situations. It will be argued that in specific social situations dreams can be vehicles for cultural contents that can help to integrate them into the larger religious interpretation system. There are questions that should be answered with regard of this event. What kind of roles did these dreams played in the individual religious beliefs? By what kind of cultural mechanisms were they modeled? What kind of ideologies of the community have helped them to emerge?<br><br> <a NAME="6"></a><b>ILDI HERMANN: Summerers </b><br><br> This photo essay focuses on summerers and their villas living seasonally in an island near to Szentendre and thereby to Budapest. It aims to highlight this microcosmos which is strongly reflecting the building style characteristics of the 1960s and 1970s.<br><br> </font> <center> <p><i><font color="#000099"><font size=-2>Néprajzi Múzeum, 2008</font></font></i> </center> </td> </tr> </table> </body> </html>