Acta Ethnographica Hungarica

An International Journal of Sociocultural Anthropology. A Periodical of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences

The journal publishes papers on recent scientific advances in the field of ethnography, ethnology, folklore, and sociocultural anthropology. Emphasis is laid, although not exclusively, on subjects related to Hungary and East Central Europe. Hungarian-related topics in the larger context of Eurasia and other continents are also of special interest. Papers are in English. It is published biannually.

Impact and ranking (2023)

Scopus CiteScore 0.6 (Q2)

Scimago SJR 0.164 (Q2)

Child Labor Outside the Family (From the End of the Nineteenth to the First Third of the Twentieth Century)

Historical, Ethnographic Approach

Zita Deáky https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5975-8674

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1556/022.2024.00019

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Mohay, Tamás: A csíksomlyói kegyhely és búcsújárás. Diktatúra, rendszerváltás, modernizáció [The Csíksomlyó Pilgrimage. Dictatorship, Regime Change, and Modernization]

Krisztina Frauhammer https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0676-7387

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1556/022.2024.00017

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Voigt, Vilmos: Európai folklór. [European Folklore.]

Judit Gulyás https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8898-925X

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1556/022.2024.00018

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From the Village to the Táncház: The Revival Metamorphosis of a Peasant Flute Player

Soma Salamon

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1556/022.2024.00010

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The Barbara Procession Among Burgenland Croats in Horvátkimle in the 20th and 21st Centuries

Szabina Bognár

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1556/022.2024.00013

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Heritage Making in Former Socialist Towns in Hungary

Ágota Lídia Ispán

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1556/022.2024.00009

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An Interpretation of Social Resilience at the Spatial Level across the Hungarian-Romanian Border

Antal Lovas Kiss https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0708-2921

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1556/022.2024.00012

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Varga, Sándor: Változások egy mezőségi falu tradicionális tánckultúrájában [Changes in the Traditional Dance Culture of a Village on the Transylvanian Plain]

Éva Mikos https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5281-6322

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1556/022.2024.00011

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Molnár, Zsolt – Kiš, Alen – Demeter, László – Szabados, Klára – Molnár, Ábel Péter – Marinkov, Jelena – Ulicsni, Viktor – Biró, Marianna – Öllerer, Kinga – Katona, Krisztián – Máté, Gábor – Kemenes, Anna – Đapić, Marko – Juhász, Erika Mária – Perić, Ranko – Babai, Dániel: Pigs in the forest and marsh. Traditional ecological knowledge of Svinjars

Zsolt Nagy https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5175-4764

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1556/022.2024.00008

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A Reusable Past. Opportunities for the Utilization of Industrial Heritage in Salgótarján, Hungary

Vira Réka Nickel https://orcid.org/0009-0007-9478-7076

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1556/022.2024.00006

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The Ornamental Plant Sector and Ornamental Plant Producers During the COVID-19 Pandemic (Cultural Responses to a Pandemic Situation in a Production Setting in East Central Europe)

Zsolt Nagy https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5175-4764

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1556/022.2024.00007

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Traditional Food as Cultural Heritage in Hungary

Anikó Báti https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7615-4044

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1556/022.2024.00005

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Ethnicity and Representation

Material Folk Art at the Intersection of Local Identity, Minority Policy Goals, and Ethnographers' Aspirations in the 1970s and 1980s in Hungary

Bence Ament-Kovács https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0782-530X

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1556/022.2024.00003

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Theory and Practice. Ethnographic Approaches to Cultural Heritage and an Empirical Example from Western Ukraine

Sándor Borbély https://orcid.org/0009-0007-8255-2173

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1556/022.2024.00004

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Paládi-Kovács, Attila: Studies in Hungarian Ethnography for a European Ethnology

Zsuzsanna Nagyné Batári https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1729-1962

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1556/022.2024.00001

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The Role of Women in African Traditional Religions

Henryk Zimoň

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1556/AEthn.51.2006.1-2.3

Pages:: 43–60

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Characteristics of the Transylvanian Countryside after Romania’s European Integration

Albert Zsolt Jakab

and

András Vajda https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6991-7325

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1556/022.2021.00029

Pages:: 135–152

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Revisiting the Concept of Debordering: The Case of the Slovenian-Hungarian Border Region

Tatiana Bajuk Senčar

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1556/022.2020.00017

Pages:: 399–414

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The Collaborative Folktale Project of a Family: The Synoptic Critical Edition of a 19th-Century Hungarian Folktale and Riddle Collection

Judit Gulyás https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8898-925X

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1556/022.2021.00002

Pages:: 31–54

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Dancing across gender boundaries. An exploration on the process of gender identity construction through the Indian classical dance Bharatanatyam

Sara Azzarelli

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1556/022.2015.60.1.9

Pages:: 77–84

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TOURISMUS UND VOLKSKUNDE ÜBERBLICK UND PERSPEKTIVEN DER KULTURWISSENSCHAFTLICHEN TOURISMUSFORSCHUNG

A. Schrutka-Rechtenstamm

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1556/AEthn.44.1999.3-4.1

Pages:: 303–322

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Social Change, Dress and Identity

Observations on the Disintegration of Peasant Culture as Exemplified by Rural Women’s Clothing in Hungary from the First World War to the End of the Kádár Era Socialism

Ágnes Fülemile

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1556/022.2020.00007

Pages:: 107–186

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“This Is Our Bank”: Agricultural Associations and Their Role in Two Swabian Villages in Satu Mare From the Regime Change to the Present

Levente Szilágyi

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1556/022.2021.00015

Pages:: 181–200

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At the Eleventh Hour. The Principles of Folklore Collection in the Scholarly Oeuvre of Lajos Katona and in Hungarian Folklore Studies at the Turn of the 20th Century

Ildikó Landgraf https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9340-2970

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1556/022.2021.00023

Pages:: 119–134

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Witch or demon? Fairies, vampires, and nightmares in Early Modern Spain

Fabián Campagne

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1556/AEthn.53.2008.1.12

Pages:: 381–410

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‘Very Little Heroes’ History and Roots of the Eco-Village Movement

Judit Farkas

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1556/022.2017.62.1.4

Pages:: 69–87

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Cultural Creolization

Lee Haring

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1556/AEthn.49.2004.1-2.1

Pages:: 1–38

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Religiosity and religious identity in Armenia: Some current models and developments

Yulia Antonyan

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1556/AEthn.56.2011.2.4

Pages:: 315–332

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Anti-proverbs and mass communication: The interplay of traditional and innovative folklore

Wolfgang Mieder

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1556/AEthn.52.2007.1.2

Pages:: 17–45

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Anti-gypsyism in the Czech Republic: Czechs’ perception of Roma in cultural stereotypes

Renata Weinerová

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1556/AEthn.59.2014.1.10

Pages:: 211–221

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Most frequent types of alteration in Anglo-American, German, French, Russian and Hungarian anti-proverbs

Anna Litovkina

Katalin Vargha

Péter Barta

, and

Hrisztalina Hrisztova-Gotthardt

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1556/AEthn.52.2007.1.3

Pages:: 47–103

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Living Together with Nature. Farming on the River Flats in the Valley of the Tisza

Farming on the river flats in the valley of the Tisza

Tibor Bellon

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1556/AEthn.49.2004.3-4.5

Pages:: 243–256

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Wild plants for sale in the markets of Pécs then and now (Baranya, Hungary)

Andrea Dénes

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1556/022.2017.62.2.5

Pages:: 339–372

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The meanings and functions of mushrooms as food in Hungarian folk tradition

Győző Zsigmond

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1556/AEthn.55.2010.1.8

Pages:: 115–138

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Religious change and its effects on social change for Roma in Slovakia

Tatiana Podolinská

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Tomáš Hrustič

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1556/AEthn.59.2014.1.12

Pages:: 235–256

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Cover photo: László Arany’s manuscript of the fairy tale The Beautiful Girl and the Devil (Library and Information Centre of the HAS Department of Manuscripts and Rare Books Irod. 4-r. 409/II. 73v–74r.)

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Senior Editors

Editor-in-Chief: Ágnes FÜLEMILE
Associate editors: Fruzsina CSEH;
Zsuzsanna CSELÉNYI
Review Editors: Csaba MÉSZÁROS; Katalin VARGHA

Editorial Board

Balázs BALOGH (Institute of Ethnology, Research Centre for the Humanities)
Elek BARTHA (University of Debrecen)
Balázs BORSOS (Institute of Ethnology, Research Centre for the Humanities)
Miklós CSERI (Hungarian Open Air Museum, the Skanzen of Szentendre)
Lajos KEMECSI (Museum of Ethnography)
László KÓSA (Eötvös University, Budapest)
lldikó LANDGRAF (Institute of Ethnology, Research Centre for the Humanities)
Tamás MOHAY (Eötvös University, Budapest)
László MÓD (University of Szeged)
Attila PALÁDI-KOVÁCS (Institute of Ethnology, Research Centre for the Humanities and Eötvös University, Budapest)
Gábor VARGYAS (Institute of Ethnology, Research Centre for the Humanities and University of Pécs)
Vilmos VOIGT (Eötvös University, Budapest)

Advisory Board

Marta BOTÍKOVÁ (Bratislava, Slovakia)
Daniel DRASCEK (Regensburg, Germany)
Dagnoslaw DEMSKI (Warsaw, Poland)
Ingrid SLAVEC GRADIŠNIK (Ljubljana, Slovenia)
Dmitriy A. FUNK (Moscow, Russia)
Chris HANN (Halle, Germany)
Krista HARPER (Amherst, MA USA)
Anya PETERSON ROYCE (Bloomington, IN USA)
Ferenc POZSONY (Cluj, Romania)
Helena RUOTSALA (Turku, Finland)
Mary N. TAYLOR (New York, NY USA)
András ZEMPLÉNI (Paris, France)

Further credits

Translators: Elayne ANTALFFY; Zsuzsanna CSELÉNYI; Michael KANDÓ
Layout Editor: Judit MAHMOUDI-KOMOR
Cover Design: Dénes KASZTA

Manuscripts and editorial correspondence:

Acta Ethnographica Hungarica
Institute of Ethnology
Research Centre for the Humanities
Hungarian Academy of Sciences
H-1453 Budapest, Pf. 33
E-mail: actaethnographicahungarica@gmail.com

Reviews:
Mészáros, Csaba or Vargha, Katalin review editors
Institute of Ethnology
Research Centre for the Humanities
Hungarian Academy of Sciences
H-1453 Budapest, Pf. 33
E-mail: meszaros.csaba@btk.mta.hu or vargha.katalin@btk.mta.hu

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2023
Scopus
CiteScore	0.6
CiteScore rank	Q2 (Music)
SNIP	0.369
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SJR index	0.164
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Acta Ethnographica Hungarica
Language	English
Size	B5
Year of Foundation	1950
Volumes per Year	1
Issues per Year	2
Founder	Magyar Tudományos Akadémia
Founder's Address	H-1051 Budapest, Hungary, Széchenyi István tér 9.
Publisher	Akadémiai Kiadó
Publisher's Address	H-1117 Budapest, Hungary 1516 Budapest, PO Box 245.
Responsible Publisher	Chief Executive Officer, Akadémiai Kiadó
ISSN	1216-9803 (Print)
ISSN	1588-2586 (Online)

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