Contemporary Forms of Shamanism

Type: 
Lecture
Audience: 
Open to the Public
Building: 
Nador u. 13
Room: 
001
Thursday, January 10, 2013 - 5:30pm
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Date: 
Thursday, January 10, 2013 - 5:30pm to 7:00pm

Professor Dr. Mihály Hoppál (Hungarian Academy of Sciences, MTA) was born in Hungary in 1942. He is the former director of the Institute of Ethnology of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest. Hoppál is an internationally published author in the field of comparative mythology (especially Finno-Ugric) and shamanism conducting fieldwork in Siberia, Korea, and Manchuria, China. Among his many publications, his book Shamans: Souls and Symbols (1994) was published in German, Hungarian, Finnish and Estonian. Hoppál has co-produced an award winning ethnographic film entitled “The Shaman in Eurasia” as well as producing a series of other documentary films on Asiatic shaman and is the co-founder of the journal Shaman.  He is President of the International Society for Shamanistic Research and the President of the Hungarian Association for the Academic Study of Religions.

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