“…If Török followed the French anthropological tradition, especially the works of Paul Broca (1824-1880) and Paul Topinard (1830, other Hungarian anthropologists adhered to the Humboldian's idea of comparative anthropology, namely that "[e]ach individual Volk had a Nationalcharakter, a distinct Volk character, which was embodied in the totality of its outward manifestations: traditions, customs, religion, language, and art" (Bunzl, 1996, p. 22). It was, in other words, assumed that anthropology should preserve in situ ethnic diversity, while simultaneously romanticizing the "primitivism" of various groups inhabiting the Austro-Hungarian monarchy (Turda, 2007a).…”