Ilona L. Juhász: Research and Documentation of Cemeteries in Hungarian Territories in Slovakia
The author in her study summarises the results of cemetery research that have been made in territories lived by Hungarians in Slovakia, providing a profound overview of literature related to Hungarian and Slovak language topics. During the research of cemeteries and their tomb signs, in the past the professionals concentrated on the documentation of exclusively one type of tomb sign, that is on Protestant tomb signs carved from wood. Concerning the Catholic tomb signs, the dealt also with the “old” tomb sings, mainly those made from wood. A complex ethnographic research and complete documentation of a cemetery of a Slovak territory lived by Hungarians was the goal of the Ethnographic Center of the Forum Institute in Komárom for the first time. The first result of the research was a complex examination and complete documentation of such character of the cemetery of a mining territory in Gemer. The summary of this research was published in a publication in 2002. The author provides a thorough survey on the cemetery research provided in the mentioned institution, but it also introduces the positive results of other research made in other institutions in the last one or two years.