Anthropological Challenge – Ethnographic Tradition. The Quiet Transition of the Hungarian Ethnography in Romania
Anthropological Challenge – Ethnographic Tradition. The Quiet Transition of the Hungarian Ethnography in Romania
Author(s): Szabó Á. TöhötömSubject(s): Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, Higher Education , WW II and following years (1940 - 1949), Ethnic Minorities Studies, Identity of Collectives
Published by: Sveučilište u Zagrebu, Filozofski fakultet
Keywords: professional personality; locality; center and periphery; amateur movement; professionalization; integration and disintegration; minority condition;
Summary/Abstract: In this paper I analyze the situation of Hungarian ethnography in Romania. In the first part of my paper I present the main aspects of ethnography’s antecedents mentioning the political and ideological commitment of this discipline and also touching upon its status in minority conditions when ethnography is seen as a way for preserving identity. In the second part I present the current situation of ethnography, which has been professionalized and anthropologized and, as a consequence of this, has been drawn away from the amateur movement. In this paper I also delineate the professional personality of Hungarian ethnographers in Cluj.
Journal: Studia ethnologica Croatica
- Issue Year: 2008
- Issue No: 20
- Page Range: 161-180
- Page Count: 20
- Language: English