Agnes Horvath
Agnes Horvath | |
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| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | European University Institute |
| Thesis | The nature of the trickster's game : an interpretive understanding of Communism (2000) |
Agnes Horvath is a political anthropologist and the founder of the International Political Anthropology Journal.[1]
Education
Horvath received both a doctorate in law and an M.A. in sociology from the Budapest University of Economics and Business in 2000. She earned her Ph.D. in social and political sciences from the European University Institute.[2]
Career
She is known for her work on liminality, boundaries, void, divinisation and walling, Eros and beauty, trickster, parasitism, and charisma in political leadership, alchemy and magic from political anthropological view.
Selected publications
- Horváth, Ágnes; Szakolczai, Árpád (1992). The Dissolution of Communist Power. London: London ; New York : Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-06709-6.[3]
- Horvath, Agnes; Thomassen, Bjørn; Wydra, Harald (2015). Breaking Boundaries: varieties of liminality. New York: Berghahn Books. ISBN 978-1-78238-766-4.[4]
- Horváth, Ágnes; Szakolczai, Árpád (2019-10-10). The Political Sociology and Anthropology of Evil. Abingdon, Oxon New York, NY: Routledge. ISBN 978-1-138-31214-2.
- Horvath, Agnes (2021-03-21). Political Alchemy: Technology Unbounded. Abingdon, Oxon New York, NY: Routledge. ISBN 978-1-000-35656-4.
References
- ^ "About the journal, founded in 2008". International Political Anthropology Journal. Retrieved 2025-05-14.
- ^ "Agnes Horvath". International Political Anthropology Journal, founded in 2008. Retrieved 2025-05-14.
- ^ Reviews of The Dissolution of Communist Power
- Czegledy, Andre P. (1994). "Review of The Dissolution of Communist Power: The Case of Hungary". Cambridge Anthropology. 17 (3): 94–96. ISSN 0305-7674.
- Unwin, P. W. (1993). "Review of The Dissolution of Communist Power: The Case of Hungary, Ágnes Horváth, Árpád Szakolczai". The Slavonic and East European Review. 71 (2): 391–392. ISSN 0037-6795.
- Farkas, Evelyn (1993). "Review of The Dissolution of Communist Power: The Case of Hungary". The Fletcher Forum of World Affairs. 18 (1): 163–165. ISSN 1046-1868.
- ^ Reviews of Breaking Boundaries
- Visacovsky, Sergio E. (2019). "Review of Breaking boundaries: varieties of liminality". The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. 25 (1): 200–201. ISSN 1359-0987.
- ^ Reviews of Magic and the Will to Science
- Blatchford, Mathew (2024). Horvath, Agnes (ed.). "Magical mystery tour-de-force". Prometheus. 40 (2): 117–118. ISSN 0810-9028.