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Hungarian Cultural Anthropological Association

Introduction

The Hungarian Cultural Anthropological Association (MAKAT) is the professional society of social and cultural anthropologists in Hungary. It was founded in 1996 and registered in 1997 as a non-governmental, politically independent organization of anthropologists and other individuals interested in anthropology.

The founding President of the Association was Lajos Boglár. The current elected President is András A. Gergely.

The goals of the Association in the spirit of the founders are:

  • to promote the science of anthropology,

  • to stimulate and coordinate the efforts of Hungarian anthropologists,

  • to promote cultural anthropological and ethnological researches,

  • to advance and integrate such activities,

  • to promote cultural anthropology in undergraduate and in secondary education,

  • to provide cooperation and consultation forums for researchers and students in cultural anthropology training and education,

  • to support young researchers (students and career entrant anthropologists),

  • to publicize domestic scientific results in Hungary and abroad,

  • to foster and promote international relationships,

  • to develop relationships with international societies and associations with similar objectives.

As part of its program, MAKAT undertakes the advocacy of cultural anthropologists and the molding of professional orientation via various research groups, workshops, and sections.

Activites:

To support and to serve, to enrich and to achieve these goals the Association

  • organizes conferences, debates, workshops, exhibitions, round table discussions, film screenings, and other events,

  • encourages joint research activities,

  • informs its members and those who are interested in its goals and activities about recent news,

  • publishes periodic and occasional publications,

  • supports the activities of others in this regard,

  • integrates these activities, thus, in some areas, members and collaborators work in sections and in research groups,

  • which periodically present and report their results in narrower or wider forums (at conferences, in publications, etc.) in accord with the nature of the topics.