Antropológiai jegyek és bűnbakképzés. Örmények a fajelmélet diskurzusában
Anthropological Characteristics and the Making of Scapegoats: Armenians in the Discourse of the Race Theory

Summary/Abstract: The study analyses the following questions. How did the early 20th century racial theoretical discourse view Armenians based on social Darwinism? Why and how have Armenians been classified as part of the “Aryan race”? This discourse has a connection to the Armenian community in Hungary as well, as there are numerous documents in the archives of the Armenian Catholic Parish in Budapest which certify that Armenians – who settled in Budapest from the Ottoman Empire – had an “Aryan origin”. The classification of Armenians as a Near Eastern race was based on anthropological factors and also based on the motive to making them scapegoats. For the Aryan racial classification was clearly the “ethnic” link, which was supported by linguistic findings.

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