Country of residence

Hungary

Brief introduction

Researcher, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Institute for Ethnology

Education

PhD, Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, 2008, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest

Academic profile

My current research deals with ideologies and practices of prestige consumption, politics of kinship and materialization of social identities in two Transylvanian Roma groups (among the Gabor and Cărhar Roma).

Publications

• 2009 Materialising ethnicity: Commodity fetishism and symbolic re-creation of objects among the Gabor Roma (Romania). Social Anthropology, 17(2): 184–197.
• 2010 Shifting transactional identities. Bazaar-style trade and risk management in the prestige economy of the Gabor Roma (Romania). Donald C. Wood (szerk.): Economic Action in Theory and Practice: Anthropological Investigations. (Research in Economic Anthropology, 30.) 279–310. Bingley: Emerald.
• 2011 Constructing, commodifying, and consuming invented ethnic provenance among Romanian Roma. Museum Anthropology, 34(2): 128–141.

Keywords

Material culture studies, Romani studies, Political and economic anthropology

Contact

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