Article ID: CBB000831415

The Magyar Moustache: The Faces of Hungarian State Formation, 1867--1918 (2007)

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Lafferton, Emese (Author)


Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences
Volume: 38
Pages: 706--732


Publication Date: 2007
Edition Details: Part of a special section:“Science, Medicine and Nationalism in the Habsburg Empire from the 1840s to 1918”
Language: English

This paper outlines the history of Hungarian ethnography and anthropology and their role in the construction of the nation and Hungarian liberalism in the Dualist period (1867--1918). Affected by the specific socio-political conditions of this ethnically most diverse country of contemporary Europe, the disciplinary trajectories of Hungarian ethnography and anthropology diverge considerably from the models offered by the historiography in the British, French and German contexts. The paper argues that the pluralistic, cultural and strongly integrative ethnographic tradition that prevailed in Hungary in the last decades of the nineteenth century did not notably wane and shift towards a biological, hierarchical and racialist thinking by the end of the First World War. Furthermore, Hungarian liberalism did not simply provide the milieu for these disciplines to flourish, but was itself partly the result of these disciplines' attempts to formulate the very concepts of ethnicity and race.

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Description “Outlines the history of Hungarian ethnography and anthropology and their role in the construction of the nation and Hungarian liberalism in the Dualist period (1867--1918).” (from the abstract)


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Article Tatjana Buklijas, Emese Lafferton (2007) Introduction: Science, Medicine and Nationalism in the Habsburg Empire from the 1840s to 1918. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences (p. 679). unapi

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McMahon, Richard
Buschmann, Rainer F.
Karady, Viktor
Mattson, Greggor
Yen, Hsiao-pei
Welsch, Robert Louis
Concepts
Cultural anthropology
Science and politics
Ethnology
Nationalism
Ethnography
Anthropology
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
20th century, late
Places
Germany
New Guinea
Islands of the Pacific
Russia
Hungary
Austria
Institutions
Habsburg, House of
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