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UDK 398-047.37:378.09(439)5уд]:001.8”20”

DOI https://doi.org/10.15407/

MODERN FOLKLORE STUDIES AT THE BUDAPEST INSTITUTE OF ETHNOGRAPHIC RESEARCH

MUSHKETYK Lesia

  • ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5958-0044
  • Doctor of ART and Language Studies, Corresponding Member
  • of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Leading Researcher,
  • the Maxym Rylsky Institute of Art Studies,
  • Folklore and Ethnology of the National Academy 
  • of Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine,
  • 2-В, Mykilsko-Slobidska Str., 02002, Kyiv, Ukraine,
  • Contacts: e-mail: mushketik@ukr.net

Abstract. Hungarian folklore studies are currently being actively developed at the academic Institute of Ethnographic Research of the Centre for Humanities, which is now part of the international network HUN-REN. The purpose of our work is to examine the main areas of research on traditional and contemporary folklore developed at the Institute, the peculiarities of collecting, publishing and analysing texts today, the methods and methodologies used, and the personalities of the researchers. Research methods: historiographical, analytical and synthetic, biobibliographical, comparative.

The Department of Folklore is represented by 9 researchers who carry out both joint tasks and projects and individual research. Thus, the preparation of a new, synthetic work «Encyclopedia of Hungarian Folk Poetry» is nearing completion, and multi-volume catalogues of indexes of types of Hungarian historical legends, demonological legends of Transylvania have been published. The study of traditional genres of folklore — fairy tales, songs, riddles, parables, — continues, including the peculiarities of the functioning of the fairy tale epic in the nineteenth century, the diffusion of fairy tale and literary texts, folklore and folkloreisation, folklore in mass culture; the reflection of historical events and individuals in oral poetry and popular culture; problems of self-identification, folk religion of Hungarians in the Diaspora, etc. Researchers pay attention to the role of the media in the study, canonization, and publication of oral folk poetry genres. On the other hand, scholars understand the need to collect, systematize, publish, and study the phenomena of contemporary folklore recorded in the field and online, such as urban folklore, rumors and gossip, anecdotes and jokes. Of particular interest is electronic folklore and its subtypes, as well as the essential features of these new phenomena, their collection and functioning online, virulence and virality, etc.

The Institute’s folklorists regularly publish their work in professional journals, collections, and at conferences, where they share their experience in the framework of international projects.

Keywords: Institute of Ethnographic Research, UAS, folklore, topics, genres, conferences, personalities.

Received 20.03.2025

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