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Vermächtnisse von David Cranz' "Historie von Grönland" (1765), edited by Felicity Jensz and Christina Petterson, pp. 173-191 (Christianities in the Trans-Atlantic World) (German Edition), Palgrave Macmillan,, 2024

In diesem Kapitel zeigt die Ethnologin und Historikerin Ildikó Sz. Kristóf, wie das Buch von Cran... more In diesem Kapitel zeigt die Ethnologin und Historikerin Ildikó Sz. Kristóf, wie das Buch von Cranz über den deutschen Sprachraum hinaus in Mittel- und Nordeuropa rezipiert wurde. Der ehemalige Göttinger Student Reverend Mihály Dobosy erstellte 1810 eine gekürzte und kommentierte ungarische Übersetzung der Historie von Grönland. Kristóf zeigt auf, wie diese Version dazu diente, die Wissenschaft der Ethnologie/Anthropologie und Naturgeschichte im Königreich Ungarn zu begründen und zu indigenisieren. Auf diese Weise trug das Buch auch dazu bei, ein bestimmtes protestantisches (calvinistisches) wissenschaftliches Narrativ zu unterstreichen, das im Gegensatz zu den vorherrschenden katholischen Narrativen, die im österreichisch-ungarischen Reich zirkulierten, stand. Das Buch trug zur Entwicklung der lokalen Wissenschaft in Ungarn bei und war Teil des nationalen Aufbruchs im frühen neunzehnten Jahrhundert.

Dieses Buch bringt interdisziplinäre Wissenschaftler aus den Bereichen Geschichte, Theologie, Volkskunde, Ethnologie und Meteorologie zusammen, um zu untersuchen, wie David Cranz' Historie von Grönland (1765) in verschiedenen Disziplinen, Epochen und Ländern Resonanz fand. Gemeinsam zeigen die Autoren, dass das Buch über seinen ursprünglichen Zweck als Aufzeichnung der Missionsarbeit hinaus in weltliche und politische Bereiche außerhalb Grönlands und Deutschlands hineinwirkte. Die Kapitel zeigen auch, wie das Buch zu breiteren Diskussionen und Konzeptualisierungen von Grönland als Teil der atlantischen Welt beigetragen hat. Der interdisziplinäre Umfang des Bandes ermöglicht eine vielschichtige Lektüre von Cranz' Buch, die zeigt, wie unterschiedliche Bedeutungen aus dem Buch in verschiedenen Kontexten gezogen werden konnten und wie das Buch über Zeit und Raum hinweg Resonanz fand. Außerdem wird das Argument angeführt, dass die Konstruktion der Arktis im achtzehnten Jahrhundertunser Verständnis des Atlantiks erweitert hat.

In: BÉROSE International Encyclopaedia of the Histories of Anthropology / Encyclopédie internationale des histoires de l'anthropologie, 2024

This historical overview tries to show how far back in time the discourse and later the science o... more This historical overview tries to show how far back in time the discourse and later the science of anthropology in Hungary extended and how multifaceted it was. Spatially - due to its geographical location and history - this discourse appeared in several religions, both in the Catholic (above all Jesuit) and Protestant (both Lutheran and Calvinist) traditions, and more abundantly from the second half of the 17th century. The subdivision on the earliest periods reviews these, pointing to the role of Catholic missionaries and Protestant translators, students attending German universities, in the study of cultural otherness outside Europe. The nature and content of anthropological discourse has always been influenced by local political factors on the one hand, and by intellectual currents from outside on the other: dependence on the Turkish Empire until the end of the 17th century, dependence on the Habsburg Empire/Austria until the end of the First World War, following German and then Russian/Soviet and later Western European and American models. The social status of those cultivating anthropological discourse/science has changed over the centuries. They were secularised during the 18th and in the 19th century, and - especially today - their religious representatives reappeared. Their sociological position also reflects their relationship with local traditions and foreign influences, and they cultivate their science accordingly. What has remained structurally constant over the centuries, however, is a turn towards local knowledge and the attempt to become more closely acquainted with it, preferably in its own categories, and a search for identity/identities in and through the various elements of culture.

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In: Magyarország globális története. A kezdetektől 1868-ig [The global history of Hungary. From the beginnings to 1868]. Szerk. Laczó Ferenc - Vadas András - Varga Bálint. Budapest: Corvina, 2023, pp. 393-397, 2023

Egzotizálás, démonizálás, empíria és az Európán kívüli világ recepciója a 17-18. századi Magyaror... more Egzotizálás, démonizálás, empíria és az Európán kívüli világ recepciója a 17-18. századi Magyarországon" [ Exoticisation, demonisation, empiricism and the reception of the non-European world in Hungary in the 17th-18th centuries]

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In Fidele Signaculum. Írások Szőnyi György Endre tiszteletére /Writings in Honour of György Endre Szőnyi. Szerk. Kiss Attila – Matuska Ágnes – Péter Róbert. Szeged: SZTE BTK Angol-Amerikai Intézet, 2022, pp. 943-950., 2022

„How can a researcher authentically perceive his or her own story and make others perceive it? Ho... more „How can a researcher authentically perceive his or her own story and make others perceive it? How can she decide what is really important and what is less so? Obviously, such highlighting or marginalisation will always be subjective and intentional, and the whole endeavour requires a kind of constant, almost circular, reflection. And this reflection, as time goes on, brings newer and newer lines from the personal history to the fore and makes them important. This process can only be stopped very firmly at this or that point, and the price of stopping abruptly is that one always ends up with snapshots. [...]
Anyone can ask: why the witch-hunts, why the Calvinists, why Debrecen? At least at first, because, even if I later turned away from this research topic, it eventually returned again and again in my work in other contexts - Catholic/Jesuit, American Indian. I was and am sensitive to this problematic. About the birth and deeper reasons for this sensitivity, I would like to - and now can - tell you some relevant - family/kinship, and local social historical - aspects.”

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Magyarország globális története [The global history of Hungary], ed. Ferenc Laczó and Bálint Varga: Corvina, pp. 26-30., 2022

The article is in Hungarian; here is a brief abstract of it in English: The presence of the non-E... more The article is in Hungarian; here is a brief abstract of it in English: The presence of the non-European, colonial world seems quite continuous in Budapest, the capital of Hungary between 1873 and 1928. Every other or every second year (primarily between April and September, and, for the Sámi, during the winter months) a different group of indigenous peoples arrived in the city park. The Native American/especially, Sioux and other indigenous actors in the company of Buffalo Bill were far from being the first aborigins to be met by the audience of Budapest. Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show visited the city in 1890 and 1906. Ethnographic shows were held, however, already from 1873 in Budapest. Various groups of non-European indigenous people performed in individual tours organized by (mostly German) impressarios like Hagenbeck, Urbach, Jakobson, Möller, etc. Among those groups one finds, for example, Sámi (1874, 1888, 1894, 1913), Nubian (1878), Samoyed (1882, 1896), Sinhalese (1884), Darfur Sudanese (1885), Sudanese Somali (1885), Sioux Indian (1886, 1890), Ashanti (1888), Bedouin (1890/91), Zanzibar Suaheli (1891) groups, the female royal guards (the so-called „Amazons”) from Dahomey (1892, 1898), a group of Sudanese Dinka (1894), a Senegal „village” and some Accra people from Ghana (1896), a Chinese group from Tonkin (1896), a Malabar group from India (1900), a Samoan group (1901), and an Ostjak(? /Samoyed?) group (1913), and, finally, an Abessinian/Somali „village” (1928).

In: Sciences between Tradition and Innovation – Historical Perspectives / Wissenschaften zwischen Tradition und Innovation – historische Perpsektiven. Ed. Lilla Krász. Wien: Praesens Verlag, 2022., 2022

The history of the reception of James Cook’s Voyages in the Kingdom of Hungary constitutes an exc... more The history of the reception of James Cook’s Voyages in the Kingdom of Hungary constitutes an exciting chapter in the history of the transmission of significant scientific texts from Western to Eastern Europe. Not well researched so far, it could throw light on the cultural and political circumstances of the making of science in a local, non-western context in the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries. This context seems to have shaped both the examples to borrow from foreign sciences and the patterns and methods of cultivating sciences in situ. It also had a considerable impact on what counted as „tradition” and what as „innovation” in local scientific discourses.
According to the findings of the author, at least four different, individual (and partial) Hungarian translations of the Voyages of James Cook (1728-1779) came into existence in the end of the 18th and the beginning of the 19th century. The first translation was born in a Jesuit context in North Hungary around 1783. The second translation emerged in a Protestant context in Transylvania around 1796. The third one appeared in another Protestant (Lutheran) context in West Hungary around 1810 and 1816. And, there was most probably a fourth one, a Calvinist translation appearing as an initiative around the early 1800s in South Hungary. The Protestant translations concerned the first voyage of James Cook accomplished in the company of Joseph Banks (1743-1820) and Daniel Solander (1733-1782) between 1768-1771. The Jesuit compilation related to the third voyage made between 1776-1780, the one from which Cook has not returned. As for the fourth translation, it is not known so far which parts of the Voyages it concerned. Knowing seemingly nothing about one another, the three (or four) different circles of translators represented three (or four) individual scientific micro-contexts from which the Enlightenment science of global ethnography and anthropology started emerging in the turn of the 18th and the 19th century.
The aim of the paper is to introduce those translations in their respective cultural, religious and political contexts with special regards of the translators themselves. Each of the three/four cases is well-documented; a rich archival material provides data about the editions of the Voyages that were used by the Hungarian translators. The fourth case is somewhat different. It is known only from a rather abundant footnote to another work of the translator, formerly a student of the university of Göttingen. However, the author of the paper attempts to throw as much light upon the fourth case as she can, regarding that this case seems to have been the most embedded in the specific transfer of ideas that took place between Hungary and the university of Göttingen in the field of early ethnography and anthropology.
The appearance of the Voyages of James Cook in vernacular contributed enormously to the birth of a discourse - a language and a visual imagery - which seems to have founded the science of cultural anthropology in Hungary. The paper discusses why and how it was so innovative, and how the existing knowledge about the non-European world/the western hemisphere may have looked like in the end of the 18th century.

The Palgrave Handbook of the History of Human Sciences, ed. David McCallum, 2021

This chapter explores the emergence of a discourse on world ethnography in the Kingdom of Hungary... more This chapter explores the emergence of a discourse on world ethnography in the Kingdom of Hungary between the late seventeenth and the early nineteenth century. The author regards archives as a ″field″ for a historian of anthropology and elaborates on three main points: first, the principal agents of the so-called ″world ethnography″ in local, Jesuit, Lutheran, and Calvinist contexts; second, the respective historical sources that resulted from their work, i.e., missionary accounts, travelogues, (school)books of geography, and (school)books of natural history; and third, cultural stereotypes occuring in both texts and images, and relating to non-European indigenous peoples, for example, those of America, Asia, and Oceania. Examining the rise of global ethnography in Hungary as an entangled history, this chapter presents three detailed examples of the representation of indigenous peoples: demonization, hierarchization/barbarization, and exoticization. Demonstrating the Eurocentric background of Enlightenment ideas like that of savagery – barbarism – civilization, the chapter analyzes stereotypes relating to American Indians, Asian peoples (especially, the Chinese and the Samoyed), Polar peoples (the Greenland Inuit and the Sámi), and the Aborigins of Australia and Oceania.

Sárospataki Füzetek (Sárospatak, Hungary), 2020

Keywords: plague epidemic, epidemic prevention and control, urban revolt, Calvinist religion, Cal... more Keywords: plague epidemic, epidemic prevention and control, urban revolt, Calvinist religion, Calvinist mentality, eighteenth century Hungary

This is a historical anthropological study of a period of social and religious tensions in a Calvinist city in the Kingdom of Hungary in the first half of the 18th century. The last and greatest plague epidemic devastating Hungary and Transylvania between cca. 1738 and 1743 led to a clash of different opinions and beliefs concerning the origin of the plague and the ways of fighting it. The town of Debrecen, situated in the Great Hungarian Plain, saw not only frequent violations of the imposed measures of lockdown by its inhabitants, but a major uprising in 1739. The author investigates, on one hand, the historical sources (handwritten town records, written and printed regulations, criminal proceedings, and other manuscripts) to be found in the city archives of Debrecen. On the other hand, she examines the works of the local Calvinist pastors published in the same town.

The purpose of the study is to outline the main directions of interpretation concerning the plague and manifest in the urban uprising. According to the findings of the author, there was a stricter and chronologically earlier direction, closer to local Puritanism in the second half of the 17th century, and there was also a more moderate and later one, closer to the assumptions and expectations of late 18th century medical science. While the former set of interpretation seems to have been founded especially on a so-called „internal” cure (i.e. religious piety and repentance), the latter proposed mostly „external” means (i.e. quarantaine measures and herbal medicine) in order to avoid the plague and to get rid of it. There seems to have existed, however, a third set of interpretation, namely that of folk beliefs and practices, i.e. sorcery and magic. According to the files, several so-called „doctor women” also attempted to cure the plague-stricken by their magical means. The third set of interpretation and the implied practices have not been tolerated by any of the other two. The author provides a detailed micro-historical analysis of the local events and the social and religious discourses into which they were embedded.

History of Natural History in Hungary by Ildiko Sz. Kristof

Kaleidoscope, 2018

The study is devoted to the appearance of non-European cultural otherness in Hungary in its vario... more The study is devoted to the appearance of non-European cultural otherness in Hungary in its various forms (texts, images, objects) between cca. 1790 and 1840. The author explores how the exotic was experienced most of all in the university of Göttingen and how its memory was kept alive in Hungary as the peregrinant students returned home and brought the idea of a new, universal, global ethnography with them. The process of a scientific canon formation and the emergence of anthropology as a new discipline is investigated by the example of three works: the Hungarian translation of the Historie von Groenland (Barbÿ 1765) of the Moravian missionary, David Cranz (1723-1777), that of the Naturgeschichte für Kinder (Göttingen, 1778) of the Göttingen scholar, Georg Christian Raff (1748-1788), and a manuscript of a Hungarian physician, Pál Almási Balogh (1794-1867) about the aborigins of Australia, compiled from various contemporary British and French authors, such as James Cook (1728-1779) or Jules Sébastien Dumont d’Urville (1790-1842). The author argues that the universal history and the Allgemeine Völkerkunde that the Hungarian students were acquainted with in Göttingen contributed to the formation of a new scientific discourse and a new scientific memory in the same time in their homeland. She pinpoints that not only the written word (books and notes) but also the objects and artifacts seen in the cabinet of natural history of the university of Göttingen had their role in the emergence of anthropology in Hungary.

Keywords:
circulation of scientific knowledge, history of anthropology, Greenland, Australia, David Cranz, Mihály Dobosy, Georg Christian Raff, Pál Almási Balogh, James Cook, Jules Sébastien Dumont d’Urville, Alexander von Humboldt

Alexander von Humboldt and Hungary by Ildiko Sz. Kristof

"The author of the essay has started investigating the writings of Alexander von Humboldt as a me... more "The author of the essay has started investigating the writings of Alexander von Humboldt as a member of a German-American research cooperation in 2001. The project was affiliated to the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures in the University of Kansas in Lawrence, KS, it was directed by Professor Frank Baron and was aimed at digitizing and electronically publishing the English translations of the works of Alexander von Humboldt. The project entitled The Humboldt Digital Library: A Global Network of Knowledge has come to an end by now, its results are available on the internet, see http://www.avhumboldt.net/index.php?page=136. As an anthropologist and historian of cultural anthropology, the author explored the Hungarian relations of the work of Alexander von Humboldt. She revealed how much he knew about Hungary (its geography, its language and, to a certain extent, its history), and that he not only had personal connections, acquaintances in contemporary Hungarian aristocratic and scientific circles, but he also made trips to Hungary (in 1797 and 1811). It is primarily certain members of the Podmaniczky family – József Podmaniczky (1756–1823) for sure, and perhaps also Károly Podmaniczky (1772–1833) – as well as other Protestant scientists like Pál Almási Balogh (1794–1867) who could function as his closest acquaintances in Hungary. Having a considerable reception in Hungarian scientific culture, the works of Alexander von Humboldt seem to have had an impact upon the emergence of, among others, geography and world ethnology in that country. They were praised by the geographer János Hunfalvy (1820–1888), a pioneer of ethnology/universal ethnography, too. The impact of Humboldt testifies the presence of the French géographie humaine but also a Romantic Gesamtforschung in 19th century Hungary -- research directions that the Hungarian scholars of the age could and did turn against Habsburg science."

Representation of the North / the Arctic by Ildiko Sz. Kristof

Ethno-lore, The Yearbook of the Institute of Ethnology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences XXXII (Budapest), pp. 1-23, 2016

Keywords: Representation of Greenland and its indigenous inhabitants in Hungary, Eighteenth-nine... more Keywords:

Representation of Greenland and its indigenous inhabitants in Hungary, Eighteenth-nineteenth century translation, History of ethnology/anthropology, History of the Moravian Church, History of the Hungarian Reformed Church, David Cranz (1723-1777), Rev. Mihály Dobosy (1780-1853).

Abstract:

„Fieldwork” Before the Time of Fieldwork: Rev. Mihály Dobosy (1780-1853), the Greenland Inuit and the Emergence of Ethnology (Anthropology) in Hungary At the Beginning of the 19th Century

The article discusses a chapter from the reception history of the account of David Cranz (1723-1777) entitled Historie von Groenland and published for the first time in 1765 in Barbÿ, Sweden and Leipzig, Germany. There was a Hungarian translation of this work which the author could locate in the special collections of a number of Hungarian libraries. The work was translated by Reverend Mihály Dobosy (1780-1853), a pastor of the Hungarian Calvinist Church, and was published in 1810 in Buda. The examination of the Hungarian version contributes to the understanding of the possible political implications of the translation of early ethnographic accounts from one language/cultural context to another. The author argues that Reverend Dobosy’s work constituted a subversion towards Habsburg (Catholic and imperialistic) science. Reverend Dobosy’s Grönlánd históriája belonged in this respect to a whole series of works aimed at producing natural history, world history and world ethnography in the Hungarian vernacular during the period concerned. The author demonstrates how ethnographic fieldwork is represented in the act and the cultural context of the Hungarian translation in an era in which fieldwork as such was not privileged at all in gaining knowledge about non-European, „exotic” people. She analyses what Reverend Dobosy has done with the original text of Cranz and pinpoints the textual and also visual/figural results of the kind of Enlightenment representation of the „first stage” of humanity that he relied on. Reverend Dobosy himself spent a year at the University of Göttingen as a student, saw its cabinet of natural history and took the example of German „ethnographical geography” as something to be imported and followed in Hungary. His work is one of the most important sources of early ethnology/anthropology in Hungary.

Representation of Australia / Pacific in Hungary by Ildiko Sz. Kristof

Sz. Kristof-The Representation of the Australian Aborigines in Text and Picture: Dr. Med. Pál Almási Balogh (1794-1863) and the Birth of the Science of Anthropology in Central Europe/Hungary (Revista Caiana (Buenos Aires), dossier "Ciencia y cultura visual", 2014, no 5, pp. 126-139) -- Abstract

http://caiana.caia.org.ar/template/caiana.php?pag=articles/article\_1.php&obj=169&vol=5

History of Jesuit Geography in Hungary by Ildiko Sz. Kristof

Vermächtnisse von David Cranz' "Historie von Grönland" (1765), edited by Felicity Jensz and Christina Petterson, pp. 173-191 (Christianities in the Trans-Atlantic World) (German Edition), Palgrave Macmillan,, 2024

In diesem Kapitel zeigt die Ethnologin und Historikerin Ildikó Sz. Kristóf, wie das Buch von Cran... more In diesem Kapitel zeigt die Ethnologin und Historikerin Ildikó Sz. Kristóf, wie das Buch von Cranz über den deutschen Sprachraum hinaus in Mittel- und Nordeuropa rezipiert wurde. Der ehemalige Göttinger Student Reverend Mihály Dobosy erstellte 1810 eine gekürzte und kommentierte ungarische Übersetzung der Historie von Grönland. Kristóf zeigt auf, wie diese Version dazu diente, die Wissenschaft der Ethnologie/Anthropologie und Naturgeschichte im Königreich Ungarn zu begründen und zu indigenisieren. Auf diese Weise trug das Buch auch dazu bei, ein bestimmtes protestantisches (calvinistisches) wissenschaftliches Narrativ zu unterstreichen, das im Gegensatz zu den vorherrschenden katholischen Narrativen, die im österreichisch-ungarischen Reich zirkulierten, stand. Das Buch trug zur Entwicklung der lokalen Wissenschaft in Ungarn bei und war Teil des nationalen Aufbruchs im frühen neunzehnten Jahrhundert.

Dieses Buch bringt interdisziplinäre Wissenschaftler aus den Bereichen Geschichte, Theologie, Volkskunde, Ethnologie und Meteorologie zusammen, um zu untersuchen, wie David Cranz' Historie von Grönland (1765) in verschiedenen Disziplinen, Epochen und Ländern Resonanz fand. Gemeinsam zeigen die Autoren, dass das Buch über seinen ursprünglichen Zweck als Aufzeichnung der Missionsarbeit hinaus in weltliche und politische Bereiche außerhalb Grönlands und Deutschlands hineinwirkte. Die Kapitel zeigen auch, wie das Buch zu breiteren Diskussionen und Konzeptualisierungen von Grönland als Teil der atlantischen Welt beigetragen hat. Der interdisziplinäre Umfang des Bandes ermöglicht eine vielschichtige Lektüre von Cranz' Buch, die zeigt, wie unterschiedliche Bedeutungen aus dem Buch in verschiedenen Kontexten gezogen werden konnten und wie das Buch über Zeit und Raum hinweg Resonanz fand. Außerdem wird das Argument angeführt, dass die Konstruktion der Arktis im achtzehnten Jahrhundertunser Verständnis des Atlantiks erweitert hat.

In: BÉROSE International Encyclopaedia of the Histories of Anthropology / Encyclopédie internationale des histoires de l'anthropologie, 2024

This historical overview tries to show how far back in time the discourse and later the science o... more This historical overview tries to show how far back in time the discourse and later the science of anthropology in Hungary extended and how multifaceted it was. Spatially - due to its geographical location and history - this discourse appeared in several religions, both in the Catholic (above all Jesuit) and Protestant (both Lutheran and Calvinist) traditions, and more abundantly from the second half of the 17th century. The subdivision on the earliest periods reviews these, pointing to the role of Catholic missionaries and Protestant translators, students attending German universities, in the study of cultural otherness outside Europe. The nature and content of anthropological discourse has always been influenced by local political factors on the one hand, and by intellectual currents from outside on the other: dependence on the Turkish Empire until the end of the 17th century, dependence on the Habsburg Empire/Austria until the end of the First World War, following German and then Russian/Soviet and later Western European and American models. The social status of those cultivating anthropological discourse/science has changed over the centuries. They were secularised during the 18th and in the 19th century, and - especially today - their religious representatives reappeared. Their sociological position also reflects their relationship with local traditions and foreign influences, and they cultivate their science accordingly. What has remained structurally constant over the centuries, however, is a turn towards local knowledge and the attempt to become more closely acquainted with it, preferably in its own categories, and a search for identity/identities in and through the various elements of culture.

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In: Magyarország globális története. A kezdetektől 1868-ig [The global history of Hungary. From the beginnings to 1868]. Szerk. Laczó Ferenc - Vadas András - Varga Bálint. Budapest: Corvina, 2023, pp. 393-397, 2023

Egzotizálás, démonizálás, empíria és az Európán kívüli világ recepciója a 17-18. századi Magyaror... more Egzotizálás, démonizálás, empíria és az Európán kívüli világ recepciója a 17-18. századi Magyarországon" [ Exoticisation, demonisation, empiricism and the reception of the non-European world in Hungary in the 17th-18th centuries]

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In Fidele Signaculum. Írások Szőnyi György Endre tiszteletére /Writings in Honour of György Endre Szőnyi. Szerk. Kiss Attila – Matuska Ágnes – Péter Róbert. Szeged: SZTE BTK Angol-Amerikai Intézet, 2022, pp. 943-950., 2022

„How can a researcher authentically perceive his or her own story and make others perceive it? Ho... more „How can a researcher authentically perceive his or her own story and make others perceive it? How can she decide what is really important and what is less so? Obviously, such highlighting or marginalisation will always be subjective and intentional, and the whole endeavour requires a kind of constant, almost circular, reflection. And this reflection, as time goes on, brings newer and newer lines from the personal history to the fore and makes them important. This process can only be stopped very firmly at this or that point, and the price of stopping abruptly is that one always ends up with snapshots. [...]
Anyone can ask: why the witch-hunts, why the Calvinists, why Debrecen? At least at first, because, even if I later turned away from this research topic, it eventually returned again and again in my work in other contexts - Catholic/Jesuit, American Indian. I was and am sensitive to this problematic. About the birth and deeper reasons for this sensitivity, I would like to - and now can - tell you some relevant - family/kinship, and local social historical - aspects.”

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Magyarország globális története [The global history of Hungary], ed. Ferenc Laczó and Bálint Varga: Corvina, pp. 26-30., 2022

The article is in Hungarian; here is a brief abstract of it in English: The presence of the non-E... more The article is in Hungarian; here is a brief abstract of it in English: The presence of the non-European, colonial world seems quite continuous in Budapest, the capital of Hungary between 1873 and 1928. Every other or every second year (primarily between April and September, and, for the Sámi, during the winter months) a different group of indigenous peoples arrived in the city park. The Native American/especially, Sioux and other indigenous actors in the company of Buffalo Bill were far from being the first aborigins to be met by the audience of Budapest. Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show visited the city in 1890 and 1906. Ethnographic shows were held, however, already from 1873 in Budapest. Various groups of non-European indigenous people performed in individual tours organized by (mostly German) impressarios like Hagenbeck, Urbach, Jakobson, Möller, etc. Among those groups one finds, for example, Sámi (1874, 1888, 1894, 1913), Nubian (1878), Samoyed (1882, 1896), Sinhalese (1884), Darfur Sudanese (1885), Sudanese Somali (1885), Sioux Indian (1886, 1890), Ashanti (1888), Bedouin (1890/91), Zanzibar Suaheli (1891) groups, the female royal guards (the so-called „Amazons”) from Dahomey (1892, 1898), a group of Sudanese Dinka (1894), a Senegal „village” and some Accra people from Ghana (1896), a Chinese group from Tonkin (1896), a Malabar group from India (1900), a Samoan group (1901), and an Ostjak(? /Samoyed?) group (1913), and, finally, an Abessinian/Somali „village” (1928).

In: Sciences between Tradition and Innovation – Historical Perspectives / Wissenschaften zwischen Tradition und Innovation – historische Perpsektiven. Ed. Lilla Krász. Wien: Praesens Verlag, 2022., 2022

The history of the reception of James Cook’s Voyages in the Kingdom of Hungary constitutes an exc... more The history of the reception of James Cook’s Voyages in the Kingdom of Hungary constitutes an exciting chapter in the history of the transmission of significant scientific texts from Western to Eastern Europe. Not well researched so far, it could throw light on the cultural and political circumstances of the making of science in a local, non-western context in the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries. This context seems to have shaped both the examples to borrow from foreign sciences and the patterns and methods of cultivating sciences in situ. It also had a considerable impact on what counted as „tradition” and what as „innovation” in local scientific discourses.
According to the findings of the author, at least four different, individual (and partial) Hungarian translations of the Voyages of James Cook (1728-1779) came into existence in the end of the 18th and the beginning of the 19th century. The first translation was born in a Jesuit context in North Hungary around 1783. The second translation emerged in a Protestant context in Transylvania around 1796. The third one appeared in another Protestant (Lutheran) context in West Hungary around 1810 and 1816. And, there was most probably a fourth one, a Calvinist translation appearing as an initiative around the early 1800s in South Hungary. The Protestant translations concerned the first voyage of James Cook accomplished in the company of Joseph Banks (1743-1820) and Daniel Solander (1733-1782) between 1768-1771. The Jesuit compilation related to the third voyage made between 1776-1780, the one from which Cook has not returned. As for the fourth translation, it is not known so far which parts of the Voyages it concerned. Knowing seemingly nothing about one another, the three (or four) different circles of translators represented three (or four) individual scientific micro-contexts from which the Enlightenment science of global ethnography and anthropology started emerging in the turn of the 18th and the 19th century.
The aim of the paper is to introduce those translations in their respective cultural, religious and political contexts with special regards of the translators themselves. Each of the three/four cases is well-documented; a rich archival material provides data about the editions of the Voyages that were used by the Hungarian translators. The fourth case is somewhat different. It is known only from a rather abundant footnote to another work of the translator, formerly a student of the university of Göttingen. However, the author of the paper attempts to throw as much light upon the fourth case as she can, regarding that this case seems to have been the most embedded in the specific transfer of ideas that took place between Hungary and the university of Göttingen in the field of early ethnography and anthropology.
The appearance of the Voyages of James Cook in vernacular contributed enormously to the birth of a discourse - a language and a visual imagery - which seems to have founded the science of cultural anthropology in Hungary. The paper discusses why and how it was so innovative, and how the existing knowledge about the non-European world/the western hemisphere may have looked like in the end of the 18th century.

The Palgrave Handbook of the History of Human Sciences, ed. David McCallum, 2021

This chapter explores the emergence of a discourse on world ethnography in the Kingdom of Hungary... more This chapter explores the emergence of a discourse on world ethnography in the Kingdom of Hungary between the late seventeenth and the early nineteenth century. The author regards archives as a ″field″ for a historian of anthropology and elaborates on three main points: first, the principal agents of the so-called ″world ethnography″ in local, Jesuit, Lutheran, and Calvinist contexts; second, the respective historical sources that resulted from their work, i.e., missionary accounts, travelogues, (school)books of geography, and (school)books of natural history; and third, cultural stereotypes occuring in both texts and images, and relating to non-European indigenous peoples, for example, those of America, Asia, and Oceania. Examining the rise of global ethnography in Hungary as an entangled history, this chapter presents three detailed examples of the representation of indigenous peoples: demonization, hierarchization/barbarization, and exoticization. Demonstrating the Eurocentric background of Enlightenment ideas like that of savagery – barbarism – civilization, the chapter analyzes stereotypes relating to American Indians, Asian peoples (especially, the Chinese and the Samoyed), Polar peoples (the Greenland Inuit and the Sámi), and the Aborigins of Australia and Oceania.

Sárospataki Füzetek (Sárospatak, Hungary), 2020

Keywords: plague epidemic, epidemic prevention and control, urban revolt, Calvinist religion, Cal... more Keywords: plague epidemic, epidemic prevention and control, urban revolt, Calvinist religion, Calvinist mentality, eighteenth century Hungary

This is a historical anthropological study of a period of social and religious tensions in a Calvinist city in the Kingdom of Hungary in the first half of the 18th century. The last and greatest plague epidemic devastating Hungary and Transylvania between cca. 1738 and 1743 led to a clash of different opinions and beliefs concerning the origin of the plague and the ways of fighting it. The town of Debrecen, situated in the Great Hungarian Plain, saw not only frequent violations of the imposed measures of lockdown by its inhabitants, but a major uprising in 1739. The author investigates, on one hand, the historical sources (handwritten town records, written and printed regulations, criminal proceedings, and other manuscripts) to be found in the city archives of Debrecen. On the other hand, she examines the works of the local Calvinist pastors published in the same town.

The purpose of the study is to outline the main directions of interpretation concerning the plague and manifest in the urban uprising. According to the findings of the author, there was a stricter and chronologically earlier direction, closer to local Puritanism in the second half of the 17th century, and there was also a more moderate and later one, closer to the assumptions and expectations of late 18th century medical science. While the former set of interpretation seems to have been founded especially on a so-called „internal” cure (i.e. religious piety and repentance), the latter proposed mostly „external” means (i.e. quarantaine measures and herbal medicine) in order to avoid the plague and to get rid of it. There seems to have existed, however, a third set of interpretation, namely that of folk beliefs and practices, i.e. sorcery and magic. According to the files, several so-called „doctor women” also attempted to cure the plague-stricken by their magical means. The third set of interpretation and the implied practices have not been tolerated by any of the other two. The author provides a detailed micro-historical analysis of the local events and the social and religious discourses into which they were embedded.

Kaleidoscope, 2018

The study is devoted to the appearance of non-European cultural otherness in Hungary in its vario... more The study is devoted to the appearance of non-European cultural otherness in Hungary in its various forms (texts, images, objects) between cca. 1790 and 1840. The author explores how the exotic was experienced most of all in the university of Göttingen and how its memory was kept alive in Hungary as the peregrinant students returned home and brought the idea of a new, universal, global ethnography with them. The process of a scientific canon formation and the emergence of anthropology as a new discipline is investigated by the example of three works: the Hungarian translation of the Historie von Groenland (Barbÿ 1765) of the Moravian missionary, David Cranz (1723-1777), that of the Naturgeschichte für Kinder (Göttingen, 1778) of the Göttingen scholar, Georg Christian Raff (1748-1788), and a manuscript of a Hungarian physician, Pál Almási Balogh (1794-1867) about the aborigins of Australia, compiled from various contemporary British and French authors, such as James Cook (1728-1779) or Jules Sébastien Dumont d’Urville (1790-1842). The author argues that the universal history and the Allgemeine Völkerkunde that the Hungarian students were acquainted with in Göttingen contributed to the formation of a new scientific discourse and a new scientific memory in the same time in their homeland. She pinpoints that not only the written word (books and notes) but also the objects and artifacts seen in the cabinet of natural history of the university of Göttingen had their role in the emergence of anthropology in Hungary.

Keywords:
circulation of scientific knowledge, history of anthropology, Greenland, Australia, David Cranz, Mihály Dobosy, Georg Christian Raff, Pál Almási Balogh, James Cook, Jules Sébastien Dumont d’Urville, Alexander von Humboldt

"The author of the essay has started investigating the writings of Alexander von Humboldt as a me... more "The author of the essay has started investigating the writings of Alexander von Humboldt as a member of a German-American research cooperation in 2001. The project was affiliated to the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures in the University of Kansas in Lawrence, KS, it was directed by Professor Frank Baron and was aimed at digitizing and electronically publishing the English translations of the works of Alexander von Humboldt. The project entitled The Humboldt Digital Library: A Global Network of Knowledge has come to an end by now, its results are available on the internet, see http://www.avhumboldt.net/index.php?page=136. As an anthropologist and historian of cultural anthropology, the author explored the Hungarian relations of the work of Alexander von Humboldt. She revealed how much he knew about Hungary (its geography, its language and, to a certain extent, its history), and that he not only had personal connections, acquaintances in contemporary Hungarian aristocratic and scientific circles, but he also made trips to Hungary (in 1797 and 1811). It is primarily certain members of the Podmaniczky family – József Podmaniczky (1756–1823) for sure, and perhaps also Károly Podmaniczky (1772–1833) – as well as other Protestant scientists like Pál Almási Balogh (1794–1867) who could function as his closest acquaintances in Hungary. Having a considerable reception in Hungarian scientific culture, the works of Alexander von Humboldt seem to have had an impact upon the emergence of, among others, geography and world ethnology in that country. They were praised by the geographer János Hunfalvy (1820–1888), a pioneer of ethnology/universal ethnography, too. The impact of Humboldt testifies the presence of the French géographie humaine but also a Romantic Gesamtforschung in 19th century Hungary -- research directions that the Hungarian scholars of the age could and did turn against Habsburg science."

Ethno-lore, The Yearbook of the Institute of Ethnology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences XXXII (Budapest), pp. 1-23, 2016

Keywords: Representation of Greenland and its indigenous inhabitants in Hungary, Eighteenth-nine... more Keywords:

Representation of Greenland and its indigenous inhabitants in Hungary, Eighteenth-nineteenth century translation, History of ethnology/anthropology, History of the Moravian Church, History of the Hungarian Reformed Church, David Cranz (1723-1777), Rev. Mihály Dobosy (1780-1853).

Abstract:

„Fieldwork” Before the Time of Fieldwork: Rev. Mihály Dobosy (1780-1853), the Greenland Inuit and the Emergence of Ethnology (Anthropology) in Hungary At the Beginning of the 19th Century

The article discusses a chapter from the reception history of the account of David Cranz (1723-1777) entitled Historie von Groenland and published for the first time in 1765 in Barbÿ, Sweden and Leipzig, Germany. There was a Hungarian translation of this work which the author could locate in the special collections of a number of Hungarian libraries. The work was translated by Reverend Mihály Dobosy (1780-1853), a pastor of the Hungarian Calvinist Church, and was published in 1810 in Buda. The examination of the Hungarian version contributes to the understanding of the possible political implications of the translation of early ethnographic accounts from one language/cultural context to another. The author argues that Reverend Dobosy’s work constituted a subversion towards Habsburg (Catholic and imperialistic) science. Reverend Dobosy’s Grönlánd históriája belonged in this respect to a whole series of works aimed at producing natural history, world history and world ethnography in the Hungarian vernacular during the period concerned. The author demonstrates how ethnographic fieldwork is represented in the act and the cultural context of the Hungarian translation in an era in which fieldwork as such was not privileged at all in gaining knowledge about non-European, „exotic” people. She analyses what Reverend Dobosy has done with the original text of Cranz and pinpoints the textual and also visual/figural results of the kind of Enlightenment representation of the „first stage” of humanity that he relied on. Reverend Dobosy himself spent a year at the University of Göttingen as a student, saw its cabinet of natural history and took the example of German „ethnographical geography” as something to be imported and followed in Hungary. His work is one of the most important sources of early ethnology/anthropology in Hungary.

Sz. Kristof-The Representation of the Australian Aborigines in Text and Picture: Dr. Med. Pál Almási Balogh (1794-1863) and the Birth of the Science of Anthropology in Central Europe/Hungary (Revista Caiana (Buenos Aires), dossier "Ciencia y cultura visual", 2014, no 5, pp. 126-139) -- Abstract

http://caiana.caia.org.ar/template/caiana.php?pag=articles/article\_1.php&obj=169&vol=5

A demonológia funkciói: misszionáriusok és indiánok az amerikai Délnyugaton (17-18. század). (Meg... more A demonológia funkciói: misszionáriusok és indiánok az amerikai Délnyugaton (17-18. század). (Megjelent in Pócs Éva szerk. Démonok, látók, szentek. Vallásetnológiai fogalmak tudományközi megközelítésben. (Tanulmányok a transzcendensrÅl VI) Budapest: Balassi Kiadó, 2008, 115-134.) Esterházy Pál herceg egyik mirákulum-gyûjteményében, az 1696-ban kiadott, és Szûz Mária szentképeivel kapcsolatos ezerháromszáz csodatörténetet tartalmazó Mennyei Korona címû gyûjteményben az 1128. kép a következõ címet viseli: "De Cinaloa Csudalatos Boldog Asszony Képe Cinaloaban, Indiaban." A hozzá tartozó elbeszélés, vagyis maga a csodatörténet pedig a következõképpen hangzik: Cinaloa Szigetében vólt egy igen meg-roegzoett, és vén Pogány, a'ki a' keresztyén nevet nem-is akarta hallani; igen meg-betegedvén, és halálához koezelgetvén, hírt adott egy Pater Jesuvitának, hogy illyen nyavalyájában meg-látogatná: a' Páter a' szent Szuez képét magával vitte, és a' betegnek kezében adta. A' Pogány midoen a' képet sokáig nézné, menyei eroebuel ugy meg-világosodott, hogy egész erejébuel kivánná a' Keresztséget, a'mellyet fel vévén, bóldogúl, és nagy oeroemmel ment az oeroekkévalóságra: attúl fogva a' kép nagy boecsuelletben tartatik, és csudálatosnak ítéltetik. 1

A távoli Másik szövegekben és képekben A korA újkori MAgyArországon: historia naturalis és Antrop... more A távoli Másik szövegekben és képekben A korA újkori MAgyArországon: historia naturalis és AntropológiA A nAgyszoMbAti kAlendáriuMokbAn, 1676-1709 (1745) 1 Annak a diskurzusnak, amit etnográfiai/antropológiai tudásnak, majd a 18. század végétől -19. század elejétől tudománynak tekinthetünk, egyes összetevői, eszmei nyomvonalai, valamint bizonyos, vele kapcsolatos elvárások Magyarországon úgy tűnik, már legalább a 17. század második felétől kezdődően megjelentek: többek között például a nagyszombati jezsuita egyetem egyes nyomtatványainak a lapjain. Az 1635-ben Pázmány Péter érsek által alapított -s a mai budapesti Eötvös Loránd Tudományegyetem elődjét képező -jezsuita egyetem (lásd Knapp -szögi, 2012) egyfajta információs központként működött Kelet-Közép-Európában: kontinensünk és a világ különböző tájairól származó tudásanyagot áramoltatott, közvetített a helyi befogadóközönség(ek) felé egészen a rend 1773-as feloszlatásáig. Ezek az ismeretek -egyebek mellett -az ún. távoli Másik jellemzőire is vonatkoztak: vagyis a különböző Európán kívüli népek -mind valóságközelibb, mind pedig konstruáltabb -vonásaira. Ez utóbbiakat a közelmúlt nyugat-európai utazástörténeti, újhistorista és posztkoloniális megközelítésű elemzései inkább a szemlélők értelmezői szűrője termékeinek -így sok esetben pusztán tulajdonított vonásoknak -tekintik, mintsem a megtapasztalt idegen/más társadalmi valóságok hű tükrének (lásd greenblatt, 1991; barKer -Hulm -iverSen, 1998; loomba -burton, 2007 loomba -burton, . lásd még Said, 1978. Magyarországon ugyanakkor e jellemzők kutatása, elemzése, a távoli Másikra vonatkozó kora újkori ismeretanyag feltárása, összegyűjtése alig kezdődött még el. 2 Jelen tanulmány elsősorban az ilyen feltárásokhoz kíván hozzájárulni, illetve felvetni néhány azokhoz kapcsolódó olvasástörténeti-filológiai meggon-3. kép Címlap, Calendarium typographiae tyrnaviensis. ad annum a nato in terris Deo M.DC. lXXvi. … Ex Calculis peritissimi et celeberrimi astronomi andreae argoli. tyrnaviae: typis academicis. ELTE EK KRNYO (RMK II. 260/ a:2) Az ELTE Egyetemi Könyvtár engedélyével.

Confluences: Essays Mapping the Manitoba-Szeged Partnership. Edited by Réka M. Cristian, Andrea Kökény and György E. Szőnyi. Szeged: JATEPress, 2017

Keywords: Native American Studies, North American Southwest, History of travel and tourism in th... more Keywords:

Native American Studies, North American Southwest, History of travel and tourism in the US, Native American reservations, Native American education, American Indian Ethnic Renewal, Cultural secrecy, Indigenous regulation of tourism, Etiquettes of behaviour for tourists, Indigenous peoples rights, NAGPRA (Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act), Pueblo Indians, Hopi people, Zuni people, Acoma people, Navajo people, Aby Warburg (1866-1929)

Nyomdai munkálatok ETO-Print Kft. Felelõs kiadó Fejõs Zoltán fõigazgató ISSN 1586-7986 ISBN 978 9... more Nyomdai munkálatok ETO-Print Kft. Felelõs kiadó Fejõs Zoltán fõigazgató ISSN 1586-7986 ISBN 978 963 9540 29 3 © Néprajzi Múzeum, 2007 A Néprajzi Múzeum fenntartója az Megjelent az NKA Ismeretterjesztés és Környezetkultúra Kollégiuma támogatásával LAKNER LAJOS 7 Irodalmi kultusz és hagyomány GYURICZA ESZTER 24 Eredetiség és hagyomány a Széchenyi-kultuszban RÁKAI ORSOLYA 33 Eredetiség és/vagy egyéniség? Egy tisztázatlan kritikai értékelõfogalom nyomában FRAZON ZSÓFIA 55 A múzeumi hagyomány és a kiállított tárgyak eredetisége VÁLYI GÁBOR 71 Lemezgyûjtés kritikai perspektívában. Hagyomány-és eredetiségrekonstrukciók az Edison-galaxisban HELTAI GYÖNGYI 83 Az operett eredetmítoszai és a politika. Egy "kitalált tradíció" a szocializmusban (1949-1956) HAVASRÉTI JÓZSEF 111 Diskurzusok az avantgárd körül GÁLOSI ADRIENNE 135 Átöröklés: az eredetiség és reprezentáció összefonódása a nyolcvanas évek mûvészetében RÉGI TAMÁS 143 Hagyomány és modernitás Kelet-Afrikában SZ. KRISTÓF ILDIKÓ 153 Kié a "hagyomány", és mibõl áll? Az Indigenous Studies célkitûzései a jelenkori indián felsõoktatásban WILHELM GÁBOR 173 Jimmie Durham a múzeumban. Indián mûvészet és etnikai identitás SZUHAY PÉTER 185 Hagyományok konstruálása a magyarországi roma képzõmûvészetben. Labanczné Milák Brigitta példája

Kulturális KRESZ az amerikai Dél-nyugaton avagy hogyan legyünk "holisztikusak" manapság...

Az amerikai Délnyugat példája "We all used to get along just fi ne. But now the white people have... more Az amerikai Délnyugat példája "We all used to get along just fi ne. But now the white people have got us all mixed up. We hate each other now." (Navahó vélemény, idézi Kluckhohn 1967 Amerikai Egyesült Államok-beli tanulmányútjaim -2001-ben és 2004-ben egy összesen hét hónapos kansasi tartózkodás, több más szövetségi állam területén fekvő indián rezervátumon tett rövidebb-hosszabb utazás, valamint a mindezekkel kapcsolatosan, különböző témákban végzett könyvtári és levéltári kutatások 1 -során kezdett egyre intenzívebben foglalkoztatni az a problematika, amit most, Pócs Éva köszöntésének alkalmából, szeretnék bemutatni. Az ún. amerikai Délnyugat történetének itt tárgyalandó szeletkéje iránt eredetileg az keltette fel az érdeklődésemet, hogy az mennyire összetett, mennyire sokrétű, sokjelentésű, mennyire -Cliff ord Geertz klasszikus (és általam igen kedvelt) kifejezését alkalmazva -"sűrű". 2 Ebben a mivoltában pedig kiválóan beleillik a Pócs Éva által immáron több mint húsz éve vezetett boszorkányság-és boszorkányüldözés-kutató csoport érdeklődési körébe is, legalábbis valahová annak a "margójára". Pócs Éva nagyon jól tudja, hogy engem -mint meglehetősen önfejű tanítványt -mindig jobban érdekelt a hiedelmek társadalmi háttere, társadalmi beágyazottsága, mint a hiedelmek maguk, 3 és ma is úgy gondolom, hogy ezek a szférák szorosabban összetartoznak, mint ahogyan azt néprajztudományunk kezelni szokta. Ezúttal ennek az összetartozásnak 1 Vizsgálódásaim egy része recens vonatkozású volt, és a jelenkori egyetemi indián értelmiség identitásformáló stratégiáinak, valamint az indiánok által szervezett-irányított turizmusnak mint a kulturális találkozás új formájának a megismerését célozta, lásd Sz. Kristóf 2004a; 2007. Másik része történeti irányú volt, és egyrészt az európai misszionáriusok és a puebló indiánok közötti kulturális ütközések kora újkori formáira vonatkozott, lásd Sz. Kristóf 2008, másrészt pedig -Aby Warburg német művészettörténész 1896-os arizonai útja s az annak nyomán 1998-ban Londonban kiadott fényképalbum hopi fogadtatása kapcsán -az indián és az euroamerikai értelmiség egymásról alkotott interpretációinak a közelmúltját boncolgatta, lásd Sz. Kristóf 2004b. 2 C. Geertz 1988. A "sűrű leírás" terminust ebben a kontextusban általános értelemben, a vizsgált jelenség (a boszorkányhit, boszorkányvádaskodás) más jelenségekbe való, azonos idejű, illetve történeti-kronológiai beágyazódásának a megvilágítására használom. 3 A boszorkányhiedelmek társadalmi hátterét, a vádaskodások mikro-és makrokontextusait igyekeztem feltárni a 16-18. századi debreceni és Bihar vármegyei boszorkányüldözésről írott könyvemben, lásd Sz. Kristóf 1998.

Transnational Americas: Home(s), Borders and Transgressions. Edited by Réka M. Cristian, Zoltán Dragon and András Lénárt, 2019

Keywords: Early Modern South America, Brasil, Tupinambá, Hans Staden (c1525-c1576), Jean de Lér... more Keywords:

Early Modern South America, Brasil, Tupinambá, Hans Staden (c1525-c1576), Jean de Léry (1536-1613), David Frölich (1595-1648), Early Modern Hungary, History of the Book, History of Reading and Print Culture, Reception of non-European indigenous people in Europe/Hungary, History of Anthropology, History of Geography, Protestant print culture, Jesuit print culture

Klaus Dieter Herbst - Werner Greiling (hrsg.): Schreibkalender und ihre Autoren in Mittel-, Ost- und Ostmitteleuropa (1540–1850). Bremen, Edition Lumiere, pp. 355-369. , 2018

Keywords: Early Modern South America, Brasil, Tupinambá, Hans Staden (c1525-c1576), Jean de Lér... more Keywords:

Early Modern South America, Brasil, Tupinambá, Hans Staden (c1525-c1576), Jean de Léry (1536-1613), David Frölich (1595-1648), Early Modern Hungary, History of the Book, History of Reading and Print Culture, Reception of non-European indigenous people in Europe/Hungary, History of Anthropology, History of Geography, Protestant print culture, Jesuit print culture

Judit Nyerges, Attila Verók and Edina Zvara ( ed). MonokGraphia. Budapest: Kossuth, 2016, 435-446. -- In Hungarian.

Sz. Kristóf Ildikó (Szeged-Budapest)

The Multi-mediatized Other. The Construction of Reality in East-Central Europe, 1945-1980. Edited by Kamila Baraniecka-Olszewska - Dagnosław Demski – Anelia Kassabova – Ildikó Sz. Kristóf. Budapest: L’Harmattan, pp. 128-155, 2017

Keywords: Representation of American Indians in Europe, Youth literature in Hungary, Youth liter... more Keywords:

Representation of American Indians in Europe, Youth literature in Hungary, Youth literature in Poland, Popular culture, Movies, Multimedia, James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851), Karl May (1842-1912), Winnetou, Liselotte Welskopf-Henrich (1901-1979), Tokei-ihto, Ehm Welk, Gojko Mitić (1940- ), Playing Indian

It is well known that the historiography of early modern European witchcraft has been enriched by... more It is well known that the historiography of early modern European witchcraft has been enriched by adopting a social/sociological approach during the last three decades. 1 I myself have made use of a similar perspective in my book analyzing the social and cultural background of witch hunting in forty-five Hungarian Calvinist communities from the sixteenth through the eighteenth centuries. While having studied the witnesses' testimonies from a sociological point of view, I have almost entirely neglected this aspect in my examination of the confessions of the accused witches themselves. I drew only data of the yes-or-no-type from the latter: whether the accused witches accepted the charges, or rejected them, whether Calvinist demonology influenced popular imagination, or not (Kristóf 1998).

During the period of the 1940s to the 1970s, the number of media and their influence were continu... more During the period of the 1940s to the 1970s, the number of media and their influence were continually expanding. New media-film technology and television-developed and started to occupy people's everyday lives. A history of visual media shows that early on images took the form of drawings, paintings, sculptures, caricatures, and posters and then expanded through photography, press, cinema, television. Images were experienced rarely, at first, later were more often published in newspapers, journals, leaflets, and posters to become an everyday consumption in the form of the television. Initially, broadcasting took only a few hours in the evening and on one channel only ; later it expanded to all day programming on multiple channels. Television replaced other sources of information, offering the public more and more news from the world. This fact has lead us to the pivotal question of what creates the experienced reality and how ? How was the everyday human experience shaped, and what was the role of the visual media in it ? In order to find answers to these questions, we have to look at the characteristics of the particular kinds of visual media.

The Multi-Mediatized Other. The Construction of Reality in East-Central Europe, 1945–1980, D. Demski, A. Kassabova, I. Sz. Kristóf, L. Laineste, K. Baraniecka-Olszewska (eds.), L’Harmattan, Budapest, 2017

Religions 2019, 10(5), 328 Open access at: https://doi.org/10.3390/rel10050328, 2019

The present study is the translation of Chapter 3 of the book of Ildikó Sz. Kristóf, entitled “Ör... more The present study is the translation of Chapter 3 of the book of Ildikó Sz. Kristóf, entitled “Ördögi mesterséget nem cselekedtem.” A boszorkányüldözés társadalmi és kulturális háttere a kora újkori Debrecenben és Bihar vármegyében (“I have not done any diabolic deeds.” The Social and Cultural Foundation of Witch-Hunting in Early Modern Debrecen and Bihar County) published in Debrecen, Hungary in 1998. The book examined the witch-hunting in Bihar county and its largest city, the headquarters of the Calvinist church in Eastern Hungary between 1575 and 1766. During this period, 217 trials were conducted against 303 accused, and the book explored the social and religious foundations of the accusations. The witch-hunts in Bihar county were of rather small size (1–3 accused per annum) and intensity. A possible explanation for this relative mildness could be provided by a complex consideration of legal, religious, and local social circumstances. Chapter 3, published here in English, discusses Hungarian Calvinist demonology which remained rather sceptical about the concepts of diabolical witchcraft (e.g., the “covenant” or pact with the devil, the witches’ attendance at regular meetings (sabbath), etc.) throughout the early modern era. The author has studied several Calvinist treatises of theology published between the late 16th and the early 18th century by the printing press of Debrecen, those, for example, of Péter Mélius (1562), Tamás Félegyházi (1579), Péter Margitai Láni (1617), János Kecskeméti Alexis (1621), Mátyás Nógrádi (1651), Johannes Mediomontanus (1656), Pál Csehi (1656), István Diószegi Kis (1679; 1681), Gellért Kabai Bodor (1678) and Imre Pápai Páriz (1719). According to her findings, Calvinist demonology, although regarded the wordly interventions of the devil of limited scope (excepting, perhaps, the Puritans of the 1650s/1680s), urged the expurgation of the various forms of everyday magic from urban and village life. The suspicion of witchcraft fell especially on the practitioners of benevolent magic (popular healers/”wise women”, midwives, fortune-tellers, etc.) who were presumed to challenge and offend divine providence. The official religious considerations sometimes seem to have coincided with folk beliefs and explanations of misfortune concerning, among others, the plague epidemic in which witchcraft played an important role.

The present study is the translation of an abbreviated version of Chap. 5 of my book entitled "Ör... more The present study is the translation of an abbreviated version of Chap. 5 of my book entitled "Ördögi mesterséget nem cselekedtem." A boszorkányüldözés társadalmi és kulturális háttere a kora újkori Debrecenben és Bihar vármegyében ("I have not done any diabolic deeds." The Social and Cultural Foundation of Witch-hunting in Early Modern Debrecen and Bihar County) published in Debrecen in 1998.

Witchcraft, Demonology and Magic, 2020

Open Access https://www.mdpi.com/books/pdfview/book/2289

Rubicon, 1990

A Pestis Pestise: Járvány és lázadás Debrecenben, Rubicon 1990, 6, 20-23. Tanulmányom ismeretter... more A Pestis Pestise: Járvány és lázadás Debrecenben, Rubicon 1990, 6, 20-23.

Tanulmányom ismeretterjesztő változata, jegyzetapparátus nélkül.

Sz. Kristóf: „ A Pestis Pestise: Járvány és lázadás Debrecenben”, Rubicon, 2020, 5, 26-31. (Uő: „Pestis Pestise: Járvány és lázadás Debrecenben, 1739-1742” (Rubicon, 1990, 6, 20-23) újraközlése.) (A reprint of "The Plague of the Plagues: Epidemic and Riot in Debrecen, 1739-42", Rubicon, 1990,6)

Rubicon, 2020

Ildikó Kristóf: „ A Pestis Pestise: Járvány és lázadás Debrecenben”, Rubicon, 2020, 5, 26-31. (A ... more Ildikó Kristóf: „ A Pestis Pestise: Járvány és lázadás Debrecenben”, Rubicon, 2020, 5, 26-31. (A reprint of Ildikó Kristóf: „Pestis Pestise: Járvány és lázadás Debrecenben, 1739-1742” (The Plague of the Plagues: Epidemic and Riot in Debrecen, 1739-1742), Rubicon, 1990, 6, 20-23).

The issue 2020,5 of Rubicon. A Magazine of History is dedicated to the history of epidemics (plague, cholera, smallpox, tuberculosis, Spanish flu).

A draft to be published, 2020

This is a historical anthropological study of a period of social and religious tensions in a Calv... more This is a historical anthropological study of a period of social and religious tensions in a Calvinist city in the Kingdom of Hungary in the first half of the 18th century. The last and greatest plague epidemic devastating Hungary and Transylvania between cca. 1738 and 1743 led to a clash of different opinions and beliefs concerning the origin of the plague and the ways of countering it. The town of Debrecen, situated in the Great Hungarian Plain, saw not only frequent violations of the imposed measures of lockdown by its inhabitants, but a major uprising in 1739. The author investigates, on one hand, the historical sources (handwritten town records, written and printed regulations, files of criminal proceedings, and other manuscripts) to be found in the city archives of Debrecen, and, on the other, the works of the local Calvinist preachers published in the same town. The purpose of the study is to outline the main threads of interpretation concerning the plague and manifest in the uprising: a stricter and earlier one, closer to local Puritanism, and a more moderate and later one, closer to the expectations of contemporary medical science. While the former set of interpretation seems to have been founded especially on an "internal" cure (i.e. religious piety and repentance), the latter suggested mostly "external" means (i.e. quarantaine measures and medicine) to avoid the plague and to get rid of it. There seems to have existed, however, a third set of interpretation, namely that of „sorcery and magic”: so-called „Doctor/Cunning Women” also attempted to cure the plague-stricken by their magical means. The third set has not been tolerated by none of the other two. The author provides a detailed micro-historical analysis of both the events and the discourses into which they were embedded.

In Démonikus és szakrális világok határán. Mentalitástörténeti tanulmányok Pócs Éva 60. születésnapjára. Szerk. Benedek Katalin - Csonka-Takács Eszter. Budapest: MTA Néprajzi Kutatóintézet, 1999

Hungarian translation of Gábor Klaniczay, "Maleficium and Miraculum: The Structure of Narratives"... more Hungarian translation of Gábor Klaniczay, "Maleficium and Miraculum: The Structure of Narratives", originally "Miracoli di punizione e malefizia", in Miracoli. Dai segni alla storia, a cura di Sofia Boesch Gajano e Marilena Modica, Viella, Roma, 1999. pp. 109-137.

Soproni boszorkányperek Ödenburger Hexenprozesse 1429-1702. Szerk. Tóth G. Péter – Németh Ildikó. Budapest: 2011

’Athen-Oraibi, alles Vettern’ (?) A Historical Anthropological Reading of Aby Warburg’s Schlangenritual”

Boszorkányüldözés a kora újkori Magyarországon: kutatástörténet, eredmények, teendők – 2013-ban

Écritures Saintes et Pactes Diaboliques

Annales Histoire Sciences Sociales, Jul 1, 2001

... suite. 31 La crémation se colorait d'un folklore diabolique : on pou... more ... suite. 31 La crémation se colorait d'un folklore diabolique : on pouvait entendre les démons geindre et sangloter. ... Et je vis un Ange puissant proclamant à pleine voix : « Qui est digne d'ouvrir le livre et d'en briser les sceaux ? ». ...