REVIEW: Lajos Balázs, Amikor az ember nincs es ezen a világon
Rezumat
REVIEW: Lajos Balázs. What Makes You Feel Out of this World. Sexual Culture and Morality among Peasants
Abstract: The book of Lajos Balázs entitled What makes you feel out of this world. Sexual culture and morality among peasants (Pallas-Akadémia, 2009, 704 pag.) written in Hungarian is an ethnographic survey, a real monography of the topic of sexuality and sexual morality in a village of Eastern Transylvania, Csíkszentdomokos (Sândominic). The topic of the book on the one hand is part of various scientific fields (sociology, sexual-psychology, folkloristics etc.), but it is still a taboo in Romanian culture and it is recently also subject of a public debate about the necessity of sexual education in Romanian schools. On the other hand, there is no other work which tackles with the specific tools of ethnography this topic in such a depth, so it can be considered a really important achievement in the field worth to be translated at least in Romanian.
Keywords: Lajos Balázs, ethnography, sexual culture, sexual morality, in-depth interview
Citation suggestion: Lajos, Katalin. “REVIEW: Lajos Balázs, Amikor az ember nincs es ezen a világon.” Transilvania, no. 11-12 (2020): 146-149. https://doi.org/10.51391/trva.2020.12.19.
Bibliografie
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Balázs, Lajos. Menj ki én lelkem a testből. Elmúlás és temetkezés Csíkszentdomokoson [Leave, my soul, my body. Funeral rites in Sândominic]. Miercurea-Ciuc: Editura Pallas Akadémia, 1995.
Balázs, Lajos. Szeretet fogott el a gyermek iránt. A születés szokásvilága Csíkszentdomokoson [I was overwhelmed by the whish for a child. Costumes linked to birth giving in Sândominic]. Miercurea-Ciuc: Editura Pallas Akadémia, 1999.
Balázs, Lajos. Amikor az ember nincs es ezen a világon. Paraszti nemi kultúra és nemi erkölcs Csíkszentdomokoson [What makes you feel aut of this world. Sexual culture and morality among peasants]. Miercurea-Ciuc: Editura Pallas Akadémia, 2009.
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