Forced Alternatives: Ethnography vs. Cultural Anthropology
Forced Alternatives: Ethnography vs. Cultural Anthropology

Summary/Abstract: Since its very first number, BUKSZ— Budapesti Könyvszemle, has been the forum of heated controversy on the weight and future of Hungarian (i.e. Hungarian and Transylvanian) ethnography. Reports, commentaries and reviews both impassioned and coolly rational have appeared on the subject in nearly every issue. The first bout of fencing was opened by Péter Niedermüller, with two thrusts, one aimed at the ambiguity of the methodology of Hungarian ethnography, the other at that of its subject. Jenő Barabás and Mihály Sárkány parried the attack calling attention to the very real achievements of Hungarian ethnography on the one hand, and on the other, to the very similar theoretical problems faced by the very branches of anthropology that Niedermüller had pointed to as an alternative.

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