Sértődés mint kulturálisan determinált magatartásgyakorlat: magyar–cigány együttélési helyzetek
Resentment as a culturally Determined Behavioural practice: Hungarian-Romani Coexistence Situations

Summary/Abstract: Resentment is a widely analysed, complex socio-cultural phenomenon in the social sciences as well as in philosophy. In this paper – using some historical aspects of the topic – I try to demonstrate the analytic value of the term concerning the comprehension of contemporary ethnic relations of Hungarian-Romani coexistence. According to my anthropological researches that have been conducted in local peripheral communities in Hungary, resentment is a mutual social psychological attitude that determines the quality of interactions between the Hungarians and Romanis. The first part of the paper has briefly revealed the conceptual background of aspects of resentment, quoting Kierkegaard’s, Nietzsche’s and Jameson’s thoughts. In the second part I analysed two field narratives with special regard to the structural-functional role of resentment in interethnic relations between Hungarians and Romanis.

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