Taking them back to my homeland-- : Hungarian collectors--non-European collections of the Museum of Ethnography in a European context / edited by János Gyarmati.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gyarmati, János, 1959-

Néprajzi Múzeum (Hungary)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Néprajzi Múzeum (Hungary).

Ethnological museums and collections--Hungary--Budapest.

Ethnological museums and collections.

Hungary--Budapest.

Physical Description:

381 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Budapest : Néprajzi Múzeum, Museum of Ethnography, 2008.

Contents:

The Museum of Ethnography and its exotic collections / János Gyarmati

The Africa Collection / Edina Földessy

"If still alive, my next report will be about Lake Rudolf and Lake Stephanie"

the East African collection of the Teleki expedition / Balázs Borsos

The America Collection / János Gyarmati

"Only the dreams of true magicians come true"

Lajos Boglár and the Amazonia Collection of the Museum of Ethnography / Vilma Főzy

The Asia and Indonesia Collections / Gábor Wilhelm

In search of the ancestral homeland

Benedek Baráthosi Balogh's ethnographic collection from the Amur region and Japan / Gábor Wilhelm

The Oceania Collection / Gábor Vargyas

"My intention has never been the mere collection of ethnographica"

Lajos Biró : the collector and his oceanic collection / Anna Biró

The lure of adventure

Count Rudolf Festetics's Oceanic collection / Judit Antoni.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-334) and index.

ISBN:

9789639540453

9639540455

OCLC:

646074538