Ágnes Horváth

Agnes Horvath is a political anthropologist and sociologist. Founding editor of the Journal International Political Anthropology, and president of the International Political Anthropology Association , she was an affiliate visiting scholar and supervisor at Cambridge University from 2011 to 2014. She is the author of Modernism and Charisma and Political Alchemy: Technology Unbounded , the co-author of The Dissolution of Communist Power: The Case of Hungary , Walking into the Void: A Historical...See more

Agnes Horvath is a political anthropologist and sociologist. Founding editor of the Journal International Political Anthropology, and president of the International Political Anthropology Association , she was an affiliate visiting scholar and supervisor at Cambridge University from 2011 to 2014. She is the author of Modernism and Charisma and Political Alchemy: Technology Unbounded , the co-author of The Dissolution of Communist Power: The Case of Hungary , Walking into the Void: A Historical Sociology and Political Anthropology of Walking , and The Political Sociology and Anthropology of the Evil: Tricksterology ; and co-editor of Breaking Boundaries: Varieties of Liminality , Walling, Boundaries and Liminality: A Political Anthropology of Transformations , Divinization and Technology: The Political Anthropology of Subversion , Modern Leaders: In Between Charisma and Trickery , and Liminal Politics in the New Age of Disease: Technocratic Mimetism . See less