Papers by Áron Bakos
Nyelv és Irodalomtudományi Közlemények , 2022
The present paper offers an understanding on communicative memory in the digital age within the a... more The present paper offers an understanding on communicative memory in the digital age within the analytical framework of Hartmut Rosa’s social theory. Applying the concepts of social acceleration, resonance and (un)controllability my aim is to comprehend the social and cultural implications of the digital turn, its impacts on the production and treatment of memory objects. Comparing how memory was formulated, communicated, and preserved in orality, analogue and digital literacy, I elaborate on the acceleration of the production of memory and the (un)controllability of the digitally externalized objects of memory.
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Erdélyi Múzeum, 2022
The paper proposes to start a discussion regarding ethnographic anonymisation. Introducing the re... more The paper proposes to start a discussion regarding ethnographic anonymisation. Introducing the recent debates on Alice Goffman's monograph, it treats the dilemmas of anonymisation at different levels (personal names, place names, certain data) and contexts (fieldwork, visual and digital ethnography, archives).
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Apertúra, 2019
A dolgozat a World of Warcraft című program jellemzőit elemzi elsősorban Huizinga játék-, Bauman... more A dolgozat a World of Warcraft című program jellemzőit elemzi elsősorban Huizinga játék-, Bauman liquid modernity és Szakolczai permanent liminality fogalmán keresztül. A tanulmány a programot a játék fogalmának kritikai olvasatával, az online és offline világok dichotómiáját meghaladva, az elméleti keret által kijelölt, tágabb szociokulturális kontextuson belül helyezi el. A program használatával kapcsolatban bizonyos fogyasztási gyakorlatokat, az identitás- és csoportképzés folyamatát, ezek egyes jellemzőit mint a társadalom tágabb és a program szűkebb közegére egyaránt érvényes, a játék esetében mint a puerilizmus fogalmán keresztül leírható jellemvonást azonosít.
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Jakab Albert Zsolt - Vajda András (szerk.): A néprajzi örökség új kontextusai. Funkció, használat, értelmezés. Kriza János Néprajzi Társaság, Kolozsvár , 2018
Mine, Yours, Ours? Methodological Suggestions on the Use of Fieldnotes
This short methodologic... more Mine, Yours, Ours? Methodological Suggestions on the Use of Fieldnotes
This short methodological paper presents the possible ways of dealing with ethnographic and anthropological fieldnotes as we understand them in the widest sense of the word. It presents practical and ethical considerations regarding the use of fieldnotes, including the role of ethnographic databases both from the perspective of anthropology as a science, and that of the intellectual ownership of informants.
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Kriza János Néprajzi Társaság Évkönyve 26., 2018
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Jakab Albert Zsolt–Vajda András (szerk.): Örökség, archívum és reprezentáció, 2017
Where they reshape the world”
The war diary and letters of Ferenc Halmágyi (1914-1915)
The st... more Where they reshape the world”
The war diary and letters of Ferenc Halmágyi (1914-1915)
The study introduces and discusses the manuscripts from 1914-1915 of a Transylvanian serviceman. The first part presents the available information about Ferenc Halmágyi. The second part describes the different genres of the texts (poems, diary entries, letters, military notes). The third part analyses the texts, and the last part presents the complete manuscript. In analysing the texts I focus on how the experience of war is conveyed, on how the attitude toward military service and war changes within the perception of one individual throughout time and as a response to war propaganda, as well as on how consciousness of a historical momentum influences the expression of the experience of war, and how this echoes national and religious narratives.
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Benke András - Bilibók Renáta - Keszeg Vilmos (szerk.): Események, folyamatok, szövegek., 2017
The study presents a marginalized person’s life story, personal and historical narratives. The an... more The study presents a marginalized person’s life story, personal and historical narratives. The analysis aims to comprehend the collected re-miniscences that otherwise did not follow a clear narrative structure (ti-me, topics). A structural reading of the narratives reveals that the micro and the macro level, the interpretation of the history of the person and of the history of the nation have a common pattern, the victimized personal narrative echoes a victimized narrative of the national history. Time, to-pics are unimportant as the narrative ceases to be historical, and rather becomes mythological, exemplifying a timeless truth that is capable of explaining both the personal and the national tragedies and failures.
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Erdélyi Múzeum, 2016
Carnival on the Web. Trolling in the context of a MMORPG
Trolling is a notable aspect of compute... more Carnival on the Web. Trolling in the context of a MMORPG
Trolling is a notable aspect of computer-mediated communication and online gamer culture. The results of the paper are based on an etnographic research of a community of gamers that primarily play together the Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game, World of Warcraft. The following paper attempts to comprehend the emerging
cultural phenomenon of trolling and other non-goal oriented actions in the context of the game, construing it as a carnivalesque and performative element of contemporary online culture.
Trolling-ul este un aspect important al comunicării prin internet și a culturii gamerilor-online. Datele prelucrate în această lucrare provin dintr-o cercetare netnografică a unei comunități de gameri, care joacă împreună în primul rând jocul video de rol online amplu multi-jucător (Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game, prescurtat MMORPG), World of Warcraft. Eseul prezintă, în contextul jocului, noul fenomen cultural numit trolling și alte activități, care nu sunt în strictă concordanță cu scopul jocului, ca un element carnavalesc și performativ al culturii online contemporane.
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Antroport Lapozó, 2015
A Game, Which is More than a Game: A Report of an Ongoing Research on a Community of Online Gamers
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Erdélyi Múzeum, 2015
The Concept of Culture in the Works of Franz Boas
In my paper I investigate how the notion of cul... more The Concept of Culture in the Works of Franz Boas
In my paper I investigate how the notion of culture appears in the writings of Franz Boas, especially in his probably most prominent work, in The Mind of Primitive Man. Firstly I try and see why we find such contradictory opinions about Boas’ status in the history of anthropology. In this section, besides following Stocking’s reasoning, I introduce gossip and oral tradition as a possible explanation for why Boas sometimes – even today – is depicted somewhat similarly to a culture hero. To avoid the mistake of an unhistorical inquiry, as a next step, I follow how the concept of culture, and the way the Other is viewed and depicted, changed in the intellectual traditions of Europe. I see Boas’ work as one in a boundary position, in a historical period where both the term culture and that of the Other is seen differently,
when the former becomes a tool for writing down the latter. In my analysis I aim to prove that Boas’ use of the concept of culture remains contradictory, and that the terms in his writings appear not only in a neutral, descriptive, plural sense.
Rather, culture sometimes appears as ideal and spiritual, opposed to a material, technological civilization; and it is also used to describe a more ideal state of man. From these points I conclude that it is false to see Boas as the inventor of the concept of culture, he is, rather, an important actor in the historical changes that led to a new discourse of the Other.
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Anthropological Journal of European Cultures, 2024
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Suomen Antropologi , 2023
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Anthropology in Action, 2017
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Conflict and Society, 2016
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Orpheus Noster, 2015
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Papers by Áron Bakos
This short methodological paper presents the possible ways of dealing with ethnographic and anthropological fieldnotes as we understand them in the widest sense of the word. It presents practical and ethical considerations regarding the use of fieldnotes, including the role of ethnographic databases both from the perspective of anthropology as a science, and that of the intellectual ownership of informants.
The war diary and letters of Ferenc Halmágyi (1914-1915)
The study introduces and discusses the manuscripts from 1914-1915 of a Transylvanian serviceman. The first part presents the available information about Ferenc Halmágyi. The second part describes the different genres of the texts (poems, diary entries, letters, military notes). The third part analyses the texts, and the last part presents the complete manuscript. In analysing the texts I focus on how the experience of war is conveyed, on how the attitude toward military service and war changes within the perception of one individual throughout time and as a response to war propaganda, as well as on how consciousness of a historical momentum influences the expression of the experience of war, and how this echoes national and religious narratives.
Trolling is a notable aspect of computer-mediated communication and online gamer culture. The results of the paper are based on an etnographic research of a community of gamers that primarily play together the Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game, World of Warcraft. The following paper attempts to comprehend the emerging
cultural phenomenon of trolling and other non-goal oriented actions in the context of the game, construing it as a carnivalesque and performative element of contemporary online culture.
Trolling-ul este un aspect important al comunicării prin internet și a culturii gamerilor-online. Datele prelucrate în această lucrare provin dintr-o cercetare netnografică a unei comunități de gameri, care joacă împreună în primul rând jocul video de rol online amplu multi-jucător (Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game, prescurtat MMORPG), World of Warcraft. Eseul prezintă, în contextul jocului, noul fenomen cultural numit trolling și alte activități, care nu sunt în strictă concordanță cu scopul jocului, ca un element carnavalesc și performativ al culturii online contemporane.
In my paper I investigate how the notion of culture appears in the writings of Franz Boas, especially in his probably most prominent work, in The Mind of Primitive Man. Firstly I try and see why we find such contradictory opinions about Boas’ status in the history of anthropology. In this section, besides following Stocking’s reasoning, I introduce gossip and oral tradition as a possible explanation for why Boas sometimes – even today – is depicted somewhat similarly to a culture hero. To avoid the mistake of an unhistorical inquiry, as a next step, I follow how the concept of culture, and the way the Other is viewed and depicted, changed in the intellectual traditions of Europe. I see Boas’ work as one in a boundary position, in a historical period where both the term culture and that of the Other is seen differently,
when the former becomes a tool for writing down the latter. In my analysis I aim to prove that Boas’ use of the concept of culture remains contradictory, and that the terms in his writings appear not only in a neutral, descriptive, plural sense.
Rather, culture sometimes appears as ideal and spiritual, opposed to a material, technological civilization; and it is also used to describe a more ideal state of man. From these points I conclude that it is false to see Boas as the inventor of the concept of culture, he is, rather, an important actor in the historical changes that led to a new discourse of the Other.
Book Reviews by Áron Bakos
This short methodological paper presents the possible ways of dealing with ethnographic and anthropological fieldnotes as we understand them in the widest sense of the word. It presents practical and ethical considerations regarding the use of fieldnotes, including the role of ethnographic databases both from the perspective of anthropology as a science, and that of the intellectual ownership of informants.
The war diary and letters of Ferenc Halmágyi (1914-1915)
The study introduces and discusses the manuscripts from 1914-1915 of a Transylvanian serviceman. The first part presents the available information about Ferenc Halmágyi. The second part describes the different genres of the texts (poems, diary entries, letters, military notes). The third part analyses the texts, and the last part presents the complete manuscript. In analysing the texts I focus on how the experience of war is conveyed, on how the attitude toward military service and war changes within the perception of one individual throughout time and as a response to war propaganda, as well as on how consciousness of a historical momentum influences the expression of the experience of war, and how this echoes national and religious narratives.
Trolling is a notable aspect of computer-mediated communication and online gamer culture. The results of the paper are based on an etnographic research of a community of gamers that primarily play together the Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game, World of Warcraft. The following paper attempts to comprehend the emerging
cultural phenomenon of trolling and other non-goal oriented actions in the context of the game, construing it as a carnivalesque and performative element of contemporary online culture.
Trolling-ul este un aspect important al comunicării prin internet și a culturii gamerilor-online. Datele prelucrate în această lucrare provin dintr-o cercetare netnografică a unei comunități de gameri, care joacă împreună în primul rând jocul video de rol online amplu multi-jucător (Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game, prescurtat MMORPG), World of Warcraft. Eseul prezintă, în contextul jocului, noul fenomen cultural numit trolling și alte activități, care nu sunt în strictă concordanță cu scopul jocului, ca un element carnavalesc și performativ al culturii online contemporane.
In my paper I investigate how the notion of culture appears in the writings of Franz Boas, especially in his probably most prominent work, in The Mind of Primitive Man. Firstly I try and see why we find such contradictory opinions about Boas’ status in the history of anthropology. In this section, besides following Stocking’s reasoning, I introduce gossip and oral tradition as a possible explanation for why Boas sometimes – even today – is depicted somewhat similarly to a culture hero. To avoid the mistake of an unhistorical inquiry, as a next step, I follow how the concept of culture, and the way the Other is viewed and depicted, changed in the intellectual traditions of Europe. I see Boas’ work as one in a boundary position, in a historical period where both the term culture and that of the Other is seen differently,
when the former becomes a tool for writing down the latter. In my analysis I aim to prove that Boas’ use of the concept of culture remains contradictory, and that the terms in his writings appear not only in a neutral, descriptive, plural sense.
Rather, culture sometimes appears as ideal and spiritual, opposed to a material, technological civilization; and it is also used to describe a more ideal state of man. From these points I conclude that it is false to see Boas as the inventor of the concept of culture, he is, rather, an important actor in the historical changes that led to a new discourse of the Other.