ABSTRACT
The Jozsef Kakas family have good registered horses and easily overtake the other carts on the road. But they address everyone in a friendly manner: they greet young people jokingly and elderly ones with respect. At Atany a house is usually inhabited by one family. Those who live in the same house are called a haznep, “household”, more rarely a haz, “house, ” or a haz-csalad, “house-family.” The expression család, “family, ” in local terminology does not identify merely those persons living under the same roof. The children of the head of the family who have left the house and live under another roof belong to his family just as much as the children living with him. According to nationwide traditional custom, the sons take their wives to the house of their parents on the day of their marriage, wherein the wife becomes integrated into the family as meny, “daughter-in-law.”
