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Olga Echevskaya, Soc&SA Modular PhD

For the dead, For the living, For the tourists: Constructing narratives of K erepesi temető. Olga Echevskaya, Soc&SA Modular PhD. 1. A cemetery near the 8 th district. 1. Entering and starting. First steps: the wall.

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Olga Echevskaya, Soc&SA Modular PhD

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  1. For the dead, For the living, For the tourists:Constructing narratives of Kerepesi temető Olga Echevskaya, Soc&SA Modular PhD

  2. 1. A cemetery near the 8th district

  3. 1. Entering and starting.

  4. First steps: the wall

  5. Moving on: “Russian military section”

  6. Moving on: the dead and the living

  7. Old town / Heritage part

  8. Arts quarter: creative class

  9. “Lower Middle Class” district

  10. Slums

  11. Abandoned areas

  12. Brief summary: • The logic of a cemetery is similar to the logic of “lived” urban environments; it has cultural centers, rich parts, kind of gated areas, working-class areas, slums and abandoned places. • Stratification is there not only in terms of economic inequalities, there are evident cultural differences felt in feelings, smells, bodily reactions, as well as in ways of decorating the graves and objects put on the graves to accompany the dead person. • Cemetery is a very diverse place, and a very lively place. When you are looking at it from outside, it is kind of reduced to its “function”. And this is how it is very similar to an urban ghetto: one is the place for the dead, the other one is the place “with bad reputation”. But once you are in, you see huge diversity of the uses of space and ways of living with the space and its “aura”.

  13. 2. Kerepesi temető: Hungarian Pere Lachaise and object of cultural heritage

  14. Kerepesi Cemetery (Kerepesi úti temető), officially named Fiume Road National Graveyard (Fiumei úti nemzeti sírkert) is the most famous cemetery in Budapest founded in 1847. Numerous Hungarian notabilities are buried here, including Lajos Batthyány, Ferenc Deák, Lajos Kossuth, Lujza Blaha. • It's got the same allure as Pere Lachaise in Paris, minus the crowds. • “Kerepesi Temetö is definitely a place you MUST see when visiting Budapest. It’s totally breathtaking”. Europe's only 'Museum of Reverence' on burial culture canbe found in the graveyard. Guided tours must be pre-booked.

  15. What is missing: Details on public and “market” uses of the Cemetery Will be (hopefully) added: Planning / scheme and access issues (public aspect of the cemetery and “entry” conditions) Interviews with people working at the cemetery (at least, museum workers, maybe some other personnel) Will not be added: Interviews with living relatives of the people buried at Kerepesi Cemetery – people’s accounts of cemetery structure, functions and uses. What else did I miss? 

  16. Kossith Lajos Monument

  17. Cemetery Arcades

  18. Sources and resources Information about the Cemetery: http://hungarystartshere.com/ and other “sightseeing” sites http://www.findagrave.com/ - “directly functional” resources http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerepesi_temeto; Wikil and Hungarian page also. + User’s blogs at Livejournal, WordPress, stand-alone blogs (“tourist gazes”) Photographs of the Cemetery: http://www.budapestindex.com/ http://hungarystartshere.com/and other “sightseeing” sites A photo essay about Kerepesi Temetöby Edition Handdruck http://www.edition-handdruck.de/ktb/ktb.html http://www.flickr.com/photos/transylvaniaguide/2610433656/ http://picasaweb.google.com/retepkavonster/KerepesiTemeto#and other random image collections from Flickr, Picassa and the like + Photos I made myself. Camera used for “ethnographic walk”: Panasonic LUMIX DMC-FZ8

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