(Cseh)szlovák–magyar közigazgatási határ mint kulturális határ?
Is the (Czecho-)Slovakian-Hungarian political border cultural border as well?

Author(s): Balázs Borsos
Subject(s): Cultural history, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology
Published by: Fórum Kisebbségkutató Intézet
Summary/Abstract: In the article the author investigates the question whether the political border between Hungary and (Czecho-)Slovakia can be defined at the same time as a cultural border among the different cultural regions of the Hungarian-speaking area. The investigation is based on the major monography The Ethnography of the Hungarians in Slovakia written by József Liszka, and on the computer elaboration of the Atlas of Hungarian Folk Culture, which consists of the cluster-analysis and mathematical statistical analysis of its own data. The author concludes that the political border forms cultural borders as well in more areas than previous research suggested. This is probably due to a low density of the net of the collecting points of the atlas, and to the increasing divergence of the culture of Hungarians who live in the periphery of the Hungarian language territory and are surrounded by a different ethnic and natural environment.

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