Csaba Mészáros
Biographic Data
| ID | 102149 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Csaba Mészáros |
| GIVEN NAMES | Csaba |
| FAMILY NAME | Mészáros |
| SIGNATURE | MÉSZÁROS C |
| AFFILIATIONS | ELTE Research Centre for the Humanities |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0306-8417 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Flexibility and Individual Choices
This paper examines the interrelationship between kinship, ecological conditions, agricultural activities, and social groups in subarctic Yakutia. It argues that the adaptation processes of Sakha communities in Central Yakutia over the last four centuries were a response to the modernization efforts and the permanently changing regulatory environment imposed on peripheral regions by the Russian (and Soviet) state, as well as the ecological challe…
Balaš, Nikola
Life Journeys, Personal Experiences and Stories. Possibilities for Research on Community Resilience
The concept of resilience has been crucial in anthropological community studies over the past two decades. While it is a useful analytical tool, it also has its limitations—many studies on resilience focus on a superorganic entity, the society. By immersing in soft, qualitative data and fieldwork experience, presenting individual life paths and decision-making, anthropologists can gain a better local perspective of what resilience is about. The p…
Borbély, Sándor
Társadalmak vagy életvilágok
Az antropológiai kutatás ontológiai fordulatának egyik legfontosabb hatása az volt, hogy a kutatók egyre inkább nem értelmezésbeli, világképbeli, hanem sokkal inkább ontológiai különbségeket ismertek fel egyes közösségek életvilágaiban. Ez egyúttal azt is jelentette, hogy az antropológiai megismerő tevékenység során a kutatók alapvető kategoriális és tipológiai különbségeket fedeztek fel. Az élők és nem élők, az emberek és nem emberek közötti hat…
Nagy, Zoltán
The study of the relationship between humans and animals has become increasingly important in the anthropological study of Siberian peoples over the past two decades, and this shift in emphasis is set to continue.However, the epistemology and methodology of the consideration of animals, and non-human agents in general, in anthropology (a discipline whose very name suggests that it is essentially a human-centered field) have yet to be appropriatel…
Mások tája és a mi tájunk
Az antropológia elsősorban az emberi, ember teremtette világokkal foglalkozik. A táj azonban másképp ember létrehozta entitás, mint egyéb társadalmi és kulturális jelenségek. Hiszen abban a nem ember alkotta komponens jelenléte eltagadhatatlan. Ennek a nem emberi komponensnek a megragadására többféle eljárás ismert az antropológiában – attól függően, hogy a kutató mennyire kíván eltávolodni az európai tájszemlélet alapelveitől. Így tehát a tájról…
Biczó, Gábor
"Biczó, Gábor: A „Mi” és a „Másik”. Az idegen megértésének tudománytörténeti vázlata az antropológiában a 19. század második felétől napjainkig. [The “Us” and the “Other.” A Historical Outline of the Concept of Otherness in Anthropology from the Second Half of the 19th Century to the Present]" published on 05 Oct 2022 by Akadémiai Kiadó
Village Voices
The aim of the present study is to demonstrate the usefulness of, and the lessons that can be learned from, a type of source that has been insufficiently analyzed and used to date - that is, the minutes of local councils, and of public hearings in particular. Data from 29 sets of minutes from four neighboring small settlements in the Hungarian-Slovenian border region (Apátistvánfalva, Kétvölgy, Kondorfa, and Orfalu) suggest that the use and inclu…
Multiplicity of Ontologies
Global climate change and modernization efforts in the Soviet era have affected the relationship between humans and lakes in Northeast Siberia and have compelled local Sakhas to perceive and renegotiate the status of lakes. These changes have distanced Sakhas from their lakes, and, thus, fishermen and trappers have entered a new epoch, when they not longer fully understand the way lakes respond to human agency. By describing contemporary incohere…
When Boundaries Need to be Crossed. A Brief History of Research Projects
The present selection of articles in Acta Ethnographica Hungarica marks a milestone in the research work that began nearly a decade ago and that will continue in the coming years.Anthropological
Protected Areas on the Slovenian–Hungarian Border
Őrség National Park (440 square kilometers) in Hungary was established in 2002, and Goričko Nature Park in Slovenia (462 square kilometers) in 2003. Both protected areas encompass regions that were purportedly “forgotten” by progress – on the margins – but are now considered idyllic landscapes with rich cultural history and a high level of biodiversity, which have the potential to function as centers for regional sustainable development
Flexible Boundaries at the Slovenian Raba Region
National parks and protected areas are the outcomes of social spatialization. Similarly to other Central and Eastern European examples, one also finds protected areas at the Hungarian-Slovenian border. Based on the story of two infrastructure developments in the area, the author argues that local ecologies and boundaries are inherently socio-natural creations
Vertical and Horizontal Approaches to Kinship and Ways of Doing Anthropological Fieldwork in Siberia1
The study of kinship has occupied a central role in anthropological scholarships for more than a hundred years. In the 1970s, after the deconstruction of kinship as the inherent logic of social structure, studies on kinship faced a number of new epistemological issues. Based on experiences gained during subsequent fieldworks in Yakutia, the author tackles a few of them in this article. Due to the legacy of Soviet-type ethnography in Yakutia, peop…
Complex Ethnographic Research Methods for the Study of Protected Areas and Border Communities at the Slovenian-Hungarian Border1
The history of the Hungarian-Slovenian border region is to be understood as socio-natural history: two co-evolving entities, society and nature have always been entangled in a web of connections and reciprocal influences. It is particularly true in this border area, where ecological diversity is the result of a century-long cultivation and correlating local lifestyles and economic strategies depend heavily on the ecological and climatic condition…
Fieldwork and Ethnographic Data
Permafrost livelihoods
In a context of scientific and public debates on permafrost degradation under global climate change, this article provides an integrated review and analysis of environmental and socio-economic trends in a subarctic region. It focuses on Sakha (Yakut) animal husbandry as an example of indigenous land use. Within Sakha-Yakutia’s boreal forests, animal husbandry takes place in thermokarst depressions containing grassland areas (alaas) that formed in…
Ethnographic accounts of visitors from the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy to the Asian peripheries of Russia and their contribution to the development of systematic ethnological studies in the Monarchy
The authors intend to provide an overview of the diaries, travelogues, and correspondence of Austro-Hungarians who traveled to the Asian peripheries of Russia during the Dual Monarchy. We aim to contribute to ongoing discussions on colonial discourses of otherness, as well as to the historical development of ethnographic scholarship in Europe. Travel writing, orientalism, and colonial encounters with Asian otherness are closely intermingling phen…
Variable husbandry and changing climate
The author focuses on the changing perception and use of alaases (round shaped meadows in thermocarst depressions) in a Central-Yakutian village community under the effect of global climate change. Households of the local cattle-economy before the collectivisation used to be located at alaases and had used small and disperse hayfields. Subsequent economic reforms in the Soviet era, and the process of decollectivisation (in the 1990s) distanced vi…
The Alaas
Funny guy or village fool? Social factors of the evaluation of humour and jokes among Evenkis and Sakhas
The article demonstrates that similar actions and lifestyles of two individuals living in two villages of Yakutia (in Northeastern Siberia) evoke different attitudes in their own communities in accordance with the dissimilar social structures and communicative systems of the villages. The article focuses on the different ways the register of humour is activated and on the dissimilar assessments of extraordinary patterns of behaviour resulting in …
Complex Ethnographic Research Methods for the Study of Protected Areas and Border Communities at the Slovenian-Hungarian Border1
The history of the Hungarian-Slovenian border region is to be understood as socio-natural history: two co-evolving entities, society and nature have always been entangled in a web of connections and reciprocal influences. It is particularly true in this border area, where ecological diversity is the result of a century-long cultivation and correlating local lifestyles and economic strategies depend heavily on the ecological and climatic condition…
Multiplicity of Ontologies
Global climate change and modernization efforts in the Soviet era have affected the relationship between humans and lakes in Northeast Siberia and have compelled local Sakhas to perceive and renegotiate the status of lakes. These changes have distanced Sakhas from their lakes, and, thus, fishermen and trappers have entered a new epoch, when they not longer fully understand the way lakes respond to human agency. By describing contemporary incohere…
The Alaas
Funny guy or village fool? Social factors of the evaluation of humour and jokes among Evenkis and Sakhas
The article demonstrates that similar actions and lifestyles of two individuals living in two villages of Yakutia (in Northeastern Siberia) evoke different attitudes in their own communities in accordance with the dissimilar social structures and communicative systems of the villages. The article focuses on the different ways the register of humour is activated and on the dissimilar assessments of extraordinary patterns of behaviour resulting in …
The Alaas
Variable husbandry and changing climate
The author focuses on the changing perception and use of alaases (round shaped meadows in thermocarst depressions) in a Central-Yakutian village community under the effect of global climate change. Households of the local cattle-economy before the collectivisation used to be located at alaases and had used small and disperse hayfields. Subsequent economic reforms in the Soviet era, and the process of decollectivisation (in the 1990s) distanced vi…
Permafrost livelihoods
In a context of scientific and public debates on permafrost degradation under global climate change, this article provides an integrated review and analysis of environmental and socio-economic trends in a subarctic region. It focuses on Sakha (Yakut) animal husbandry as an example of indigenous land use. Within Sakha-Yakutia’s boreal forests, animal husbandry takes place in thermokarst depressions containing grassland areas (alaas) that formed in…
Ethnographic accounts of visitors from the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy to the Asian peripheries of Russia and their contribution to the development of systematic ethnological studies in the Monarchy
The authors intend to provide an overview of the diaries, travelogues, and correspondence of Austro-Hungarians who traveled to the Asian peripheries of Russia during the Dual Monarchy. We aim to contribute to ongoing discussions on colonial discourses of otherness, as well as to the historical development of ethnographic scholarship in Europe. Travel writing, orientalism, and colonial encounters with Asian otherness are closely intermingling phen…
Vertical and Horizontal Approaches to Kinship and Ways of Doing Anthropological Fieldwork in Siberia1
The study of kinship has occupied a central role in anthropological scholarships for more than a hundred years. In the 1970s, after the deconstruction of kinship as the inherent logic of social structure, studies on kinship faced a number of new epistemological issues. Based on experiences gained during subsequent fieldworks in Yakutia, the author tackles a few of them in this article. Due to the legacy of Soviet-type ethnography in Yakutia, peop…
Complex Ethnographic Research Methods for the Study of Protected Areas and Border Communities at the Slovenian-Hungarian Border1
The history of the Hungarian-Slovenian border region is to be understood as socio-natural history: two co-evolving entities, society and nature have always been entangled in a web of connections and reciprocal influences. It is particularly true in this border area, where ecological diversity is the result of a century-long cultivation and correlating local lifestyles and economic strategies depend heavily on the ecological and climatic condition…
Fieldwork and Ethnographic Data
Protected Areas on the Slovenian–Hungarian Border
Őrség National Park (440 square kilometers) in Hungary was established in 2002, and Goričko Nature Park in Slovenia (462 square kilometers) in 2003. Both protected areas encompass regions that were purportedly “forgotten” by progress – on the margins – but are now considered idyllic landscapes with rich cultural history and a high level of biodiversity, which have the potential to function as centers for regional sustainable development
Flexible Boundaries at the Slovenian Raba Region
National parks and protected areas are the outcomes of social spatialization. Similarly to other Central and Eastern European examples, one also finds protected areas at the Hungarian-Slovenian border. Based on the story of two infrastructure developments in the area, the author argues that local ecologies and boundaries are inherently socio-natural creations
Multiplicity of Ontologies
Global climate change and modernization efforts in the Soviet era have affected the relationship between humans and lakes in Northeast Siberia and have compelled local Sakhas to perceive and renegotiate the status of lakes. These changes have distanced Sakhas from their lakes, and, thus, fishermen and trappers have entered a new epoch, when they not longer fully understand the way lakes respond to human agency. By describing contemporary incohere…
When Boundaries Need to be Crossed. A Brief History of Research Projects
The present selection of articles in Acta Ethnographica Hungarica marks a milestone in the research work that began nearly a decade ago and that will continue in the coming years.Anthropological
Village Voices
The aim of the present study is to demonstrate the usefulness of, and the lessons that can be learned from, a type of source that has been insufficiently analyzed and used to date - that is, the minutes of local councils, and of public hearings in particular. Data from 29 sets of minutes from four neighboring small settlements in the Hungarian-Slovenian border region (Apátistvánfalva, Kétvölgy, Kondorfa, and Orfalu) suggest that the use and inclu…
Mások tája és a mi tájunk
Az antropológia elsősorban az emberi, ember teremtette világokkal foglalkozik. A táj azonban másképp ember létrehozta entitás, mint egyéb társadalmi és kulturális jelenségek. Hiszen abban a nem ember alkotta komponens jelenléte eltagadhatatlan. Ennek a nem emberi komponensnek a megragadására többféle eljárás ismert az antropológiában – attól függően, hogy a kutató mennyire kíván eltávolodni az európai tájszemlélet alapelveitől. Így tehát a tájról…
Biczó, Gábor
"Biczó, Gábor: A „Mi” és a „Másik”. Az idegen megértésének tudománytörténeti vázlata az antropológiában a 19. század második felétől napjainkig. [The “Us” and the “Other.” A Historical Outline of the Concept of Otherness in Anthropology from the Second Half of the 19th Century to the Present]" published on 05 Oct 2022 by Akadémiai Kiadó
Társadalmak vagy életvilágok
Az antropológiai kutatás ontológiai fordulatának egyik legfontosabb hatása az volt, hogy a kutatók egyre inkább nem értelmezésbeli, világképbeli, hanem sokkal inkább ontológiai különbségeket ismertek fel egyes közösségek életvilágaiban. Ez egyúttal azt is jelentette, hogy az antropológiai megismerő tevékenység során a kutatók alapvető kategoriális és tipológiai különbségeket fedeztek fel. Az élők és nem élők, az emberek és nem emberek közötti hat…
Nagy, Zoltán
The study of the relationship between humans and animals has become increasingly important in the anthropological study of Siberian peoples over the past two decades, and this shift in emphasis is set to continue.However, the epistemology and methodology of the consideration of animals, and non-human agents in general, in anthropology (a discipline whose very name suggests that it is essentially a human-centered field) have yet to be appropriatel…
Life Journeys, Personal Experiences and Stories. Possibilities for Research on Community Resilience
The concept of resilience has been crucial in anthropological community studies over the past two decades. While it is a useful analytical tool, it also has its limitations—many studies on resilience focus on a superorganic entity, the society. By immersing in soft, qualitative data and fieldwork experience, presenting individual life paths and decision-making, anthropologists can gain a better local perspective of what resilience is about. The p…
Borbély, Sándor
Flexibility and Individual Choices
This paper examines the interrelationship between kinship, ecological conditions, agricultural activities, and social groups in subarctic Yakutia. It argues that the adaptation processes of Sakha communities in Central Yakutia over the last four centuries were a response to the modernization efforts and the permanently changing regulatory environment imposed on peripheral regions by the Russian (and Soviet) state, as well as the ecological challe…
Balaš, Nikola
Sociology (12 works) · Anthropology (9 works) · History (8 works) · Ethnography (7 works) · Geography (7 works) · History (7 works) · Indigenous Studies and Ecology (7 works) · Archaeology (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Political science (6 works)