Ethnological Archives

The Ethnological Archives was created in 1938. It is the central archives of Hungarian ethnography and gives insight into both the shaping of an intellectual, alternative tradition to the official ideology of the party-state, and into the practices of preserving the pre-communist cultural heritage. The history of the Archives aptly illustrates the difficulty in sharply distinguishing the roles of cultural opposition and cooperation in the socialist period as it also contains ethnographical collections created by research projects serving contemporary political and ideological goals.

民族学档案馆成立于1938年，作为匈牙利民族学的核心档案库，它不仅揭示了形成一种与官方党国意识形态相异的、具有知识性的传统的过程，亦展现了保存前共产主义文化遗产的实践。档案馆的历史恰如其分地展现了在社会主义时期明确区分文化对立与合作角色之难度，因为它亦包含了为迎合当代政治和意识形态目标而设立的研究项目所创作的民族学藏品。