Ethnography

Ethnography is another 337-page reading book published by Hungary’s Educational Office on application of the National Ethnic Minorities Committee and by initiative of the National Rusyn Self-Government. It comprises poems, fairy tales, folk songs and educational essays divided into the following chapters: Family; Native Land; Man and Nature; Schooling; Holidays; Children’s Counting Rhymes, Fairy Tales, Sayings and Tunes; Rusyn Arts; Folk Poetry; Our History; and History of National Rusyn Self-Government, supplemented with comprehension tasks at the end of the essays, and a Rusyn-Hungarian dictionary.

In an obvious attempt to unite the parts of the Rusyn people scattered over several Central European countries, the authors introduce a composite Rusyn family as the guide over this nicely illustrated book, in which there are two kids born respectively in Komlóska and Múcsony, the remaining two authentic Rusyn villages of Hungary, whose parents come from Slovakia on the paternal and Subcarpathia on the maternal side.