Bodrogi Tibor (1924–1986) tudománytörténeti hagyatéka. Etnográfiai profil, stadiális társadalomszemlélet és az őslakosok hangja – ma
The scholarly legacy of Tibor Bodrogi (1924–1986). Ethnographic profile, stadial social theory, and the voices of indigenous peoples – today

Summary/Abstract: This study examines the scholarly, teaching, and research legacy of Tibor Bodrogi (1924–1986) through the lens of an increasingly prominent question in contemporary scholarship: how should the history of science be written? What questions must present-day researchers confront – questions that have been inherited in part from the past, yet are also products of the present? Taking into account both objective and subjective dimensions – both etic and emic perspectives – and seeking to adopt an approach grounded as firmly as possible in primary sources, the study reconstructs the figure of Tibor Bodrogi, together with his teaching and research methods, as they were known by the generation of ethnographers and museum professionals born in the 1960s, to which the author also belongs. The analysis is based on two main groups of sources. The first, which may be regarded as emic, consists of Ildikó Kristóf’s own handwritten university lecture notes, taken during Tibor Bodrogi’s courses in the Department of Ethnography at Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE), Budapest, in the 1980s. The second, etic source group is Bodrogi’s scholarly archival papers, preserved in the Archives of the Institute of Ethnology of ELTE RCH (formerly the Hungarian Academy of Sciences) in Budapest. The complete archival collection was arranged and catalogued between 2021 and 2022 by János Bednárik, Vira Réka Nickel, and Anna Szakál, with the assistance of Gábor Vargyas. From this material, the author focuses on three archival boxes. Their organisation and underlying scholarly principles reveal a great deal about Tibor Bodrogi’s intellectual outlook, professional convictions, and the historical context in which he lived and worked. The contents of these boxes correspond closely to the university lecture notes examined, reflecting the systematic framework of ethnological knowledge and the historiography of ethnology that formed the basis of ethnographic training at ELTE in Budapest during the 1980s.

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