Which Way to Magna Hungaria? The Application of Social Stratigraphic Mapping and Analysis to an Ethnic Origin Theory
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2017
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Marshall, Sylvia Gertrude
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This dissertation provides the results of a study that reflected
on how the creation and dissemination of knowledge about the past
was handled by researchers in the late 18th and 19th centuries
– a period in history noted for extensive and profound
political, social and economic changes all across Europe and the
world. It pondered how living and working in an environment of
major change may have impacted the researchers and their
interpretations of archaeological data. The study examined this
issue of ‘environmental’ impact on knowledge creation and
dissemination through the prism of a case study on the impact of
personal and professional influences on scholarly research within
the field of ethnogenetic determination in Hungary. The study
considered the processes by which one ethnogenetic theory - the
‛Finno-Ugric Uralian’ ethnogenesis theory (abbreviated to
Uralic theory) - came to dominate scholarship in Hungary about
the origins of its largest single ethnic group – the Magyars.
Applying a new technique called ‛Social Stratigraphic Mapping
and Analysis’ (an adaption of the Knowledge Management
technique of ‘Social Network Analysis’), the associations of
the scholars were profiled using historical biographical data
coupled with psychological profiling, to determine those factors
– personal, institutional and temporal – that may have
affected their views and caused them to adopt a stance on the
issue of Magyar ethnogenesis. The study found evidence of
manipulation of data and biased views both in the reporting of
the data, and in the treatment of the scholars
themselves, and that the data manipulation and treatment of the
scholars not only impacted on the reporting of the artefact
assemblages in the period but has had a lasting impact on
Hungarian research into ethnogenesis since that time.
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Hungary, Hungarian, Magyar, Finno-Ugric, Magna Hungaria, Ethnogenesis, Ethnogenetic Determination, Social Stratigraphic Mapping and Analysis, SSMA, Archaeologists, Linguists, Antiquarian, 18th Century, 19th Century, Archaeological Reporting
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