Urbanities,
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László Kürti, PhD
University of Miskolc, Hungary
In their essay recently published this Journal (2013) Giuliana Prato and Italo Pardo have
offered a useful summary of what urban anthropology is all about, explaining its origin and
current diverse outlook. Since Eastern Europe falls outside their scope, I provide here
information about my research in Budapest, Hungary. Because current urban anthropological
concerns throughout the region are diverse with many national strands complicating the
picture from Poland, Czech Republic, Romania, Slovenia (see, for example, Kürti and Skalnik
eds 2009, Mihailescu 2009, Soukupová 2010). Since I came to study that city as an American
PhD researcher my subsequent publications reflect mostly Euro-American anthropology, but
since I have been living now in Hungary for two decades, both teaching and researching, I
also know how my colleagues in Hungary approached the subject of urban studies. However,
