Nóra Kovács

Hungarian Academy of Sciences | HAS · Centre for Social Sciences

The ‘Tango of Argentina and Uruguay’ was inscribed in the List of Intangible Cultural Heritage of the UNESCO in 2009 to be safeguarded as one of humanity’s outstanding cultural achievements. Controversies and shortcomings related with the inscription have been pointed out by several scholars working on tango as a social phenomenon. Criticism about...

This fieldwork-based ethnographic book (in Hungarian) outlines a doctoral research project on second generation Hungarian identity building in Argentina.

This ethnographic paper discusses childcare practices of Chinese entrepreneurs in Hungary from an anthropological perspective. These practices differ from mainstream forms of childcare used by Hungarian parents in terms of the space, the frequency, and the duration of care. They generally take place in the carer’s home where children live; and the...

The paper scrutinizes life events narrated by a Hungarian woman married to a Chinese wholesale tradesman for almost thirty years. Their relationship was challenged regularly by apparently irreconcilable notions of marriage, family, and love; notions shaped by their different sociocultural backgrounds. Their experiences are integrated into the resul...

The research outlined in this paper focuses on a subfield related to Chinese migrants’ integration in Hungary: Chinese-Hungarian mixed partner relationships. I present some findings of an anthropological study on Chinese-Hungarian couples in Hungary, although other localities may also be involved in some of these couples’ lives. Based on intervie...