Genius Loci: Anthropological Research of Gastronomic and Handicraft Heritage Elements in Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County, Cultural Tourism Development Based on the Experience of and International Applied Anthropological Research

Kántor, Barbara and Kotics, József and Gulyás, Klára and Lajos, Veronika (2021) Genius Loci: Anthropological Research of Gastronomic and Handicraft Heritage Elements in Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County, Cultural Tourism Development Based on the Experience of and International Applied Anthropological Research. In: Passing a Triple Frontier. Editura Mega, Cluj-Napoca, pp. 13-52. ISBN 9786060203544

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Abstract

T he topic of Anthropology of (Cultural) Tourism is quite broad in the international literature, however in Hungary there are several gaps compared to the international praxis. T his article summarizes anthropological studies of tourism that conceptually could be divided into two main categories: majority of the anthropologist try to understand the origins of tourism (Anthropology of Tourism), others focus the mass tourism’s impacts on local communities (Tourism Anthropology). These approaches focus both on tourists’ and local communities’ emic perspectives – this latest approach has strong connection with applied anthropology. This study demonstrates within the case study of KRA’GAS, these different conceptual backgrounds and shows how the researchers of the University of Miskolc dealt with the Covid-19 pandemic situation and carried out an ethnographic research among the future stakeholders of the planned touristic route on the basis of KRA’GAS (Promotion of Crafts and Gastronomy, as Relevant Components of the Cultural Heritage of the Carpathian Euroregion – HUSKROUA/1702/3.1/0027, funded by the European Union) between 2019–2021.

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