@{MTMT:2910896,
	title = {Teaching and Participant Observation. Interconnections of Culture and Language in an EasternEuropean Local Society},
	url = {https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/2910896},
	author = {Lajos, Veronika},
	booktitle = {Culture, language and globalization among the Moldavian Csángós today},
	unique-id = {2910896},
	abstract = {To study in one’s native language is a general right 
		supported by the European Union. Tytti Isohookana-Asunmaa, a 
		Finnish social scientist and politician, initiated CoE 
		recommendation 1521 in 2001 regarding these rights of the 
		Moldavian Csángós in Romania. The Moldavian Csángós are a 
		minority of Hungarian origin, the vast majority of the Roman-
		Catholic faith, most of them being bilingual and speaking 
		different local Hungarian dialects. Nowadays, it is almost a 
		commonplace statement in Hungarian scholarly and public 
		discourse that the ‘Moldavian Csángós are not allowed to 
		study in their own mother tongue’. However, it is worth 
		taking a closer look at the context and presumptions of this 
		statement. For an ethnologist, teaching Hungarian for an 
		academic year in one of the Csángó villages can be considered 
		as a useful, as well as a controversial, means to be 
		frequently present in the field. In this context it might 
		also be seen as a socio-political act aiming to save the 
		local Hungarian dialect, the Csángó culture and minority from 
		fully assimilating into the Romanian nation. Nevertheless, my 
		aims are to recognize and comprehend the inner meanings and 
		implications of the matter of teaching.
		In this paper, I present details of events that occurred 
		during my teaching period in Lujzikalagor/Luizi-Călugăra, 
		Bacău, Romania. My aim is to highlight matters about the ways 
		native people and outsiders consider the opportunity to learn 
		Hungarian as a “mother tongue”, about the local conflicts 
		generated by the option of Hungarian language lessons and its 
		connections to the Csángó social space of multiple cultural 
		and linguistic ties.},
	year = {2014},
	pages = {85-110},
	orcid-numbers = {Lajos, Veronika/0000-0002-0767-8426}
}