Anthropology and the Fiction of Race in Modern Hungary

by Marius Turda

Scientific Racism in Hungary, 1920-1945 examines racially informed debates on society and nation in interwar Hungary, their ideological frameworks and methodological affinities to debates on race and eugenics elsewhere in Europe. The book focuses on how anthropological ideas of race influenced debates on national character as well as biopolitical ideologies and welfare models of eugenic engineering between 1920 and 1945. During this period,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 135001110X
• ISBN13: 9781350011106
• Release Date: March 2026
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 304 Pages