Dr. Mihály
Hoppál
Director
European Folklore Institute
| Personal |
Born 31 October, 1942. Kassa (Hungary) Married,
two daughters Residence: 1014 Budapest, Szabó Ilonka utca 26. Telephone:(36)1-201-6237 Mobil: 06-30-644-789 |
| Education |
High School, Sárospatak, 1956-1960
University of Debrecen, Hungary 1961-1966 Diploma of Ethnography and Hungarian Literature and Linguistics Ph.D. (Summa cum laude) 1972 Candidate of Doctor of Science 1990 |
| Languages | Hungarian, English, Russian |
| Employment |
Ethnographic Institute of the Hungarian Academy
of Sciences Research Fellow 1967-1971 Scientific Secretary 1972-1975 Senior Research Fellow 1976- |
| Honours |
Janko János díj (Special Award
for Young Anthropologists 1972) Medal of the University of Helsinki (Ganander Lecture 1983) Diploma Internazionale di Studi Etnoantropologici (Pitré 1985) |
| Scholarships |
1969- Soviet Semiotic Studies (MTA=Hungarian
Academy of Sciences) Moscow, USSR - 3 months 1972- Computational Linguistics and the Humanities (IBM) Pisa, Italy - 1 month 1973- Semiotic Studies (Centro Internazionale di Semiotica) Urbino, Italy - 2 months 1974- Semiotics and Text Theory (Centro Int. di Semiotica) Urbino, Italy - 1 month 1975- Comparative Mythology (MTA - Academy of USSR) Moscow, USSR - 6 months 1984- Ethnicity of the American-Hungarians (MTA - ACLS, USA) Bloomington, Indiana, USA - 6 months 1986- Siberian Shamanism (MTA - Academy of USSR) Leningrad, Novosibirsk, Ulan-Ude, USSR - 3 months 1987- Comparative Religion (Donner Fellowship - Abo Akademi) Turku, Finland - 1 month 1989- Visual Anthropology (Visiting Fellow in the Humanities Research Center, Australian National University) Canberra ACT - 4 months 1990- Ethnicity of the American-Hungarians (Fulbright Scholar Program) Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA - 3 months 1992- Comparative Religion (Donner Fellowship - Abo Akademi) Turku, Finland - 1 month |
| Fieldwork |
1967-69 Communication in a Hungarian Village
(Visonta, Hungary) - 6 months 1975-76 Comparative Mythology and Belief Systems (Kirghizia, Georgia, Armenia, Soviet Union) - 6 months 1979-82 Long-Term Field Research in a Hungarian Village: Changes of Traditional Peasant Culture (Pusztafalu, Hungary) - 4 months 1983-84 Identity Preservation: a Comparative Study of Ethnic Symbolism (in Hungary and the USA) - 2x4 months 1986- Shamanism in Siberia (Buryatia, Soviet Union) - 3 weeks 1989- Ethnic Life of the Hungarian Emmigrants (Canberra, Australia - 4 months 1990- Ethnicity of the American-Hungarians (South Bend, Ind. USA) - 3 months 1991- Shamanism (South Korea and China, Manchuria) - 2 months 1992- Shamanism in Siberian (Yakutia, Soviet Union) - 2 veeks 1993- Shamanism among the Nanays (Amur-region, Russia) - 2 veeks 1994- Korean Shamanism (South Korea) - 4 weeks 1995- Shamanism (Xinjiang and Manchuria, China) - 4 weeks 1996- Shamanism (Buryatia and Tuva, Russia) - 6 weeks 1997- Shamanism in Japan (Ainu, Hokkaido) - 2 weeks 1997- Shamanism (Buryatia, Russia) - 2 weeks |
MEMBERSHIP AND ACTIVITIES IN PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
Magyar Néprajzi Film Bizottság (Committee for Hungarian Ethnographic Film) General Secretary: 1970-1975; Chairman: 1988-1992
Népi Gyógyászati Kutató Bizottság (Committee for the Study of Hungarian Ethnomedicine) General Secretary: 1971-1975
MTA Uralisztikai Komplex Bizottság (Committee of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences for Uralic Studies) 1976-1980
MTA Szemiotikai Munkabizottság (Working Committee of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences for Semiotic Studies) 1981-1990
MTA Õstörténeti Munkabizottság (Working Committee of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences for the Study of the Prehistory of the Hungarians) 1985-1990
Member of the Commission on Visual Anthropology of the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (IUAES) 1991-1994
Member of the IUAES Commission of the Anthropological Study of Peace
Member of the International Association of Hungarian Studies
International Society
for Shamanistic Research General Secretary (1988-1990)
Acting
President of the ISSR (1991-1993)
Co-president
(with Kim Taegon) of the ISSR (1994-1996)
President
(1997-1999)
President of the Hungarian Association for the Study of Religion (1997-)
Encyclopaedia of Uralic Mythologies - International Project Coordinators and Editor-in-Chiefs: Anna-Leena Siikala (Finland), Mihály Hoppál (Hungary) and V.V. Napolskih (Russia) - (1993-2000)
VISITING LECTURES
1971- University of
Budapest, Hungary
1977- University
of Copenhagen, Denmark
1978- University
of Tubingen; West Germany
1982- Rijks Universitet
Leiden, Holland
1983- University
of Helsinki, Finland
1984- Indiana University,
Bloomington, USA
1984- University
of Göttingen, West Germany
1985- University
of Warsaw, Poland
1985- Sorbonne,
Paris, France
1985- University
of Amsterdam, Holland
1986- University
of Turku, Finland
1986- University
of Stockholm, Sweden
1987- University
of Debrecen, Hungary
1988- University
of Uppsala, Sweden
1988- University
of Helsinki, Finland
1989- University
of California, La Jolla, USA
1989- National University,
Canberra, Australia
1990- Columbia University,
New York, USA
1991- University
of Bologna, Italy
1991- Kings College,
Cambridge, England
1992- University
of Joensuu, Finland
1992- University
of Tromsö, Norway
1993- University
of Paris, Nannterre, France
1993- Georgetown
University, Washington, D.C. USA
1994- Kyung Hee
University, Seoul, Korea
1995- University
of the Nationalities, Beijing, China
1996- University
of Bologna, Italy
1996- University
of Helsinki, Finland
1997- University
of Hokkaido, Sapporo, Japan
1997- University
of Tartu, Estonia
1997- University
of Tomsk, Russia
COURSES TAUGHT
Introduction to Ethnosemiotics*
Cross-Cultural Studies
in Shamanism**
Finno-Ugric Comparative
Mythology*
Shamanism in Siberia*
Folk Narrative and
Narrative Memory
Ethnic Identity
and Ethnic Symbolism
Introduction to
Cultural Anthropology**
Ethnographic Film-Visual
Anthropology**
* a post-graduate
course ** with video-film presentations
ORGANIZER OF CONFERENCES
1975 Belief System and
Social Consciousness - Visegrád, Hungary
(Interdisciplinary
Symposium on the Problems of Social Mind)
1978 Myth and History
- Budapest, Hungary
(Conference on Historical
and Mythic Consciousness)
1980 The Cult of the
Dead - Nagykõrös, Hungary
(Symposium on Ethno-thanatology
- Co-organiser: L. Novák)
1981 Shamanism in Eurasia
- Sárospatak, Hungary
(Co-organiser: V.N.
Basilov, Institute of Ethnography, Moscow, USSR)
1982 Way of Life: Models
and Patterns in Contemporary Hungary - Visegrád, Hungary
(Symposium for sociologists
and anthropologists - Co-organiser: T. Szecskõ)
1983 Shamanism: A symposium
- Vancouver, Canada
(11th International
Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences)
1984 Values System and
Social Change in Hungary - Budapest, Hungary
(Interdisciplinary
Conference on Changing Social Values - Co-organiser: T. Szecskõ)
1985 Finno-Ugric (Uralic)
Worldview and Mythology - Budapest, Hungary
(5th Finnish-Hungarian
Folklore Symposium - Co-organiser: J. Pentikäinen, Helsinki)
1987 European Ethnographic
Film Seminar - Budapest, Hungary
(Co-organiser: C.
Piault, CNRS, Paris, France)
1988 Shamanism: Past
and Present - Zagreb, Yugoslavia
(12nd International
Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences)
1988 Tradition: System
Theoretic Approaches - Budapest, Hungary
(Co-organiser: E.
Markarjan, Armenian Academy of Sciences, Yerevan)
1993 Shamanism and Performing
Arts - Budapest, Hungary
(2nd conference
of the International Society for Shamanistic Research)
FOUNDER AND EDITOR OF SERIALS
FOLKLOR ARCHIVUM
Budapest: MTA Néprajzi
Kutatócsoport - Vol. 1. (1973) - Vol. 18. (1989)
SZEMIOTIKAI TANULMÁNYOK
(Semiotic Studies)
Budapest (Series
of Reprints) - No. 1. (1972) - No. 76. (1982)
ELÕMUNKÁLATOK
A MAGYARSÁG NÉPRAJZÁHOZ
(Preliminary Studies
to the Ethnography of Hungary)
Budapest: MTA Néprajzi
Kutatócsoport - Vol. 1. (1977) - Vol. 10 (1982)
ETHNOLOGICA URALICA
(Co-Editor with Juha PENTIKÄINEN) - Vol. 1. (1989) - Vol.
4. (1997)
Budapest - Helsinki:
Ethnographic Institute - Finnish Literature Society
SHAMAN - Journal of
the International Society for Shamanistic Research
Budapest - Szeged
(Co-Editor with Adam MOLNÁR) - Vol. 1. (1993) - Vol. 5.
(1997)
BIBLIOTHECA SHAMANISTICA
- (Editor)
Budapest: Akadémiai
Kiadó and International Society for Shamanistic Research
Vol. 1. - Shamanism
in Performing Arts. (1995)
Vol. 2. - Shamanism
in Siberia (1996)
Vol. 3. - Folk Beliefs
and Shamanistic Traditions in Siberia (1996)
Vol. 4. - Shamanism
between East and West. By Carla Corrad-Musi (1997)
Vol. 5. - Korean
Shamanism. By Daniel Kister (1997)
Vol. 6. - Shamanism-Selected
Reprints of V. Diószegi 1998
Vol. 7. - The Verbal
Art of Nenets Shamanism. By P. Simoncsics 1998
Vol. 8. - Happiness
Through Reciprocity. By Hyun-Key Kim Hogarth (1998)
Vol. 9. - Shamanism
in Transition. By Mihaly Hoppal (1999)
EDITOR OF BOOKS (in Hungarian)
1971 Strukturalis folklorisztika (Structuralism in Folklore - Selected and edited by M. HOPPÁL and V. VOIGT) vol. 1.-2. Budapest - Szolnok: MTA Néprajzi Kutatócsoport
1973 Szöveg - modell - típus (Text - Model - Type. Essias by Yu. M. LOTMAN - Selected and edited with a last-word by M. HOPPÁL) Budapest: Gondolat
1974 A mozgókép szemiotikája (Semiotics of Film - Edited by M. HOPPÁL and A. SZEKFÕ with an Introductory Essay) Budapest: Masscommunication Institute
1974 Emlékül hagyom... (Hungarian Peasant Autobiographies - Edited by M. HOPPÁL - I. KÜLLÕS - J. MANGA) Budapest: Gondolat
1975 Nagy Rozália a nevem (Autobiography of a Hungarian Peasant Woman - Selected and edited by M. HOPPÁL) Budapest: Gondolat
1977 Jel-Kommunikáció-Kultúra (Soviet Studies on Masscommunication and Semiotics - Selec- ted and edited by M. HOPPÁL and A. VÁNDOR) Budapest: Masscommunication Institute
1980 Hiedelemrendszer és társadalmi tudat (Belief System and Social Mind - Edited by M. HOPPÁL and T. FRANK) Budapest: Masscommunication Institute
1980 Ethno-art és mûvészet szemiotika (Selected Essias on Ethno-Art and Art Semiotics - Edited and selected with an Introduction by M. HOPPÁL) Budapest: Institut for Culture
1980 A Tejút fiai (Selected Readings in Finno-Ugric Mythology - Selected and edited by M. HOPPÁL with an Introductory Essay) Budapest: Európa
1981 Folklór tanulmányok (Studies in Folklore - Edited by M. HOPPÁL) Budapest: MTA Néprajzi Kutatócsoport/=Ethnographic Institute, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
1982 Halottkultusz (The Cult of the Dead - Edited by M. HOPPÁL and L. NOVÁK) Budapest: MTA Néprajzi Kutatócsoport
1983 Jelképek - Kommunikáció - Társadalmi gyakorlat (Symbolic Communication and Social Practice: Selected Readings in Symbolic Anthropology - Edited by M. HOPPÁL and P. NIEDERMÜLLER ) Budapest: Masscommunication Institute
1983 Szibériai sziklarajzok (Siberian Rock Art by A.P. OKLADNIKOV and I.A. MARTINOV - edited by M. HOPPÁL with Introductory Essay) Budapest: Corvina
1984 Nyelv - mítosz - kultúra (Language - Myth - Culture. Essais by V.V. IVANOV - Selected and edited with a last-word by M. HOPPÁL)
1985 Életmód: modellek és minták (Way of Life: Models and Patterns. Proceedings of a Symposium - Edited by M. HOPPÁL and T. SZECSKO) Budapest: Masscommunication Institute
1986 Mítosz és eposz (Mythe et epopee. Essais by G. DUMEZIL - Edited by M. HOPPÁL with an Epilogue and Bibliography) Budapest: Gondolat
1987 Magyar Mythologia (Hungarian Mythology by A. IPOLYI - A facsimile edition from 1854 with Notes and an Introductory Essay by M. HOPPÁL) Budapest: Európa
1987 Értékek és változások (Values and Changes in the Hungarien Society. Proceeding of Symposium - Edited by M. HOPPÁL and T. SZECSKÕ (vol. 1.-2.) Budapest: Masscommunication Institute
1987 A szerelem kertjében – Erotikus jelképek a mûvészetben. (In the Garden of Love – Erotic Symbols in Art –Edited by M. HOPPÁL and E. SZEPES) Budapest: Szépirodalmi Kiadó
1987 Erósz a folklórban – Erotikus jelképek a néphagyományban. (Evos in Folklore – Erotic Symbols in Folk Culture –Edited by M. HOPPÁL and E. SZEPES) Budapest: Szépirodalmi Kiadó
1988 Mitológiai Enciklopedia (The Encyclopaedia of Mythologies - The Hungarian and enlarged version of Mify Narodov Mira edited by M. HOPPÁL) vol. 1.-2. Budapest: Gondolat
1989 Jelképtár (An Illustrated Dictionary of Symbols - Edited by M. HOPPÁL - Compiled by M. HOPPÁL - A. JANKOVICS - A. NAGY-GY. SZEMADÁM) Budapest: Helikon
1990 Magyar Néprajz (Hungarian Ethnography. Vol. VI. - Folklore 2. - Edited by M. HOPPÁL. Editor-in-chief: T. DÖMÖTÖR, Budapest. Akadémiai Kiadó
1990 Magyar Néprajz (Hungarian Ethnography. Vol. VII. - Folklore 3. - Edited by M. HOPPÁL. Editor-in-chief: T. DÖMÖTÖR) Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó
PUBLICATIONS (PAPERS)
1976 Folk Beliefs and Shamanism among the Uralic Peoples. In: HAJDU, P. (ed.) Ancient Culture of the Uralian Peoples 215-242- Budapest: Corvina
1976 The Sate of Ethno-medical Research in Hungary. In: Acta Congressus Internationalis XXIV Historiae Artes Medicinae II:1265-1270. Budapest: Medicina
1978 Mitologie uraliche. Conosenza Religiosa No.4:367-395. (Firenze)
1978 Mythology as a Sign-System. In: GENTILI, S. - PAIONI, G. (eds,) Il mito greco. Atti del convegno internazionale 349-361. Roma: Ateneo-Bizzari
1979 On Beliefs Systems. In: BURGHARDT, W. - HÖLKER, K. (eds.) Text Processing -Textverarbeitung 236-253. Berlin - New York: De Gruyter
1981 A Case Study of Adaptation in Folk Narrative: Tolstoy's Tale in the Hungarian Oral Tradition. In: HONKO, L. - VOIGT, V. (eds.) Adaptation, Change, and Decline in Oral Literature 35-48. Helsinki: Finnish Literature Society
1981 Mother and Child in Hungarian Folklore: an Ethnosemiotic Approach to the Study of Belief System. Curare 5:4:227-238. (Wiesbaden)
1983 From Structuralism to Ethnosemiotics. In: OOSTEN, J. - de RUIJTER, A. (eds.) The Future of Structuralism 75-95. Göttingen: Herodot
1983 Proxemics: Private and Public. Community and Communication in a Hungarian Village. In: HOLLOS, M. - MADAY, B.C. (eds.) New Hungarian Peadants: an East Central European Experience with Collectivization 245-271. New York: Brooklyn College Press
1984 Traces of Shamanism in Hungarian Folk Belief. In: HOPPÁL, M. (ed.) Shamanism in Eurasia 430-449. Göttingen: Herodot
1984 Ethnosemiotics Origin, Problems and Perspectives. Bulgarski Folklore 10:1:13-29. (Sofia)
1985 Shamanism and the Siberian Rock Art. In: DIENES, I. (ed.) Studia Hungarica (CIFU 6.) 207-222. Budapest: Nemzetközi Magyar Filológiai Társaság
1985 Shamanism: an Archaic or Recent System of Beliefs. Ural-Altaic Yearbook 57:121-140
1986 Chain Letters:
Contemporary Folklore and the Chain of Tradition. In:JÄRVINEN,
I.-R. (ed.)
Contemporary Folklore
and Culture Change 62-80. Helsinki: SKS
1987 Proxemic Patterns, Social Structures, and World View. Semiotica 65:3-4:225-247.
1987 Finno-Ugric Religion: History of Study. In: ELIADE, M. (ed.) The Encyclopedia of Religion vol. 5:340. New York: Macmillan
1988 Ethnosemiotics and Semiotics of Culture. In: BROMS, H. - KAUFFMANN, R. (eds.) Semiotics of Culture 17-33. Helsinki: Arator
1988 The New Results of Research into Siberian Shamanism in the Soviet Union. Suomen Antropologi 13:4:20-30. (Helsinki)
1989 Ungarische Grabzeichen. Zeitschrift für Semiotik 11:2-3:223-237. (Tübingen)
1989 Changing Image of the Eurasian Shamans. In: HOPPÁL, M. - SADOVSZKY, O. (eds.) Shamanism: Past and Present 75-90. Budapest - Los Angeles/Fullerton: ISTOR Books 1.
1989 Finno-Ugric Mythology Reconsidered. In: HOPPÁL, M. - PENTIKÄINEN, J. (eds.) Uralic Mythology and Folklore 15-31. Budapest -Helsinki: Finnish Literature Society
1989 Ethnic Symbolism: Tradition and Ethnicity in a Hungarian and an American-Hungarian Community. Folklore Archivum 18:135-184. (Budapest)
1990 Visual Anthropology
in East Europe: a (Class) Struggle for Identity. Visual Anthropology
3:1:81-89.
1990 Family Photography of the American-Hungarians. In: KUNT, E. (Hrsg.) Bild-Kunde-Volks- Kunde 89-103. Miskolc: VKO
1992 Cultural Tradition as Sign Process. World Futures 34:3-4:201-208.
1992 Ethnohermeneutics in the Theory of Tradition. Studia Fennica Folkloristica I:141-152.
1992 Deep Signs –
Notes on the Semiotics of Hungarian Tattoing Folklore.
S: European Journal
of Semiotics 4:1-2:103-113. (Wien)
1993 Ethnosemiotic Research in Hungary. Hungarian Studies 8:1:47-82.
1993 Studies on Eurasian Shamanism. In: HOPPÁL, M. - HOWARD, D.K. (eds.) Shamans and Cultures 258-288. Budapest-Los Angeles: ISTOR Books 5.
1995 Symbolic Healing
in Hungarian Ethnomedicine. In: KOIVA, M. - VASSILJEVA, K. (eds.)
Folk Beliefs Today
138-149. Tartu: Estonian Academy of Sciences.
1996 Death Experiences in Shamanism. Suomen Antropologi 21:4:27-32.
1996 Shamanism in a Post-Modern Age. Shaman 4:1-2:99-107.
PUBLICATIONS (BOOKS)
1970 Egy falu kommunkációs
rendszere (Communication System of a Village) Budapest:
Masscommunication
Institute (in Hungarian)
1975 Ethnomedicine in
Hungary (co-author L. TÖRÕ) Supplementum vol. 7-8.
to
Communictiones de
Historia Artis Medicinae. Budapest: Medicina
1978 Shamanism in Siberia
(Edited by V. DIÓSZEGI and M. HOPPÁL)
Budapest: Akadémiai
Kiadó
1979 Myth and History:
A Symposium (Edited by M. HOPPÁL)
Budapest: Ethnographic
Institue of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences)
1980 Ipolyi Arnold (A
múlt magyar tudósai)
Budapest: Akadémiai
Kiadó
1984 Shamanism in Eurasia (Edited by M. HOPPÁL) Göttingen: Herodot
1989 Shamanism: Past
and Present (Edited by M. HOPPÁL and O. von. SADOVSZKY)
Budapest - Los Angeles:
ISTOR Books vol. 1-2.
1989 Uralic Mythology
and Folklore (Edited by M. HOPPÁL and J. PENTIKÄINEN)
Budapest - Helsinki
(Ethnologica Uralica vol. 1.)
1990 Tulipán
és szív (Tulip and Heart - Erotic Symbolism in the
Hungarian Folk Art)
Debrecen: Csokonai
(in Hungarian)
1992 On Tradition Special
Issue of World Futures (The Journal of General Evolution) edited
by
E. LÁSZLÓ
(guest editor M. HOPPÁL) vol. 34. No. 3-4.
1992 Northern Religions
and Shamanism (Edited by M. HOPPÁL and J. PENTIKÄNEN)
Budapest - Helsinki
(Ethnologica Uralica vol. 3.)
1992 Studies on Shamanism (co-author A.-L. SIIKALA) Helsinki - Budapest
1992 Etnoszemiotika Debrecen: KLTE Néprajzi Tanszék (in Hungarian)
1993 Shamans and Cultures
(Edited by M. HOPPÁL and K. HORWARD with the assistance
of Otto von SADOVSZKY and Taegon KIM)
Budapest - Los Angeles:
Akadémiai Kiadó - ISTOR Books vol. 5.
1993 Shamanism and Performing
Arts - Papers and Abstracts for the 2nd Conference of the
International Society
for Shamanistic Research. (Edited by M. HOPPÁL and P. PÁRICSY)
Budapest: Ethnographic
Institute, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
1994 Sámánok
- Lelkek és jelképek (Shamans: Souls and Symbols
/in Hungarian)
Budapest:Helikon
1994 Schamanen und Schamanismus Augsburg: Pattloch Verl.
1995 Performing Arts
in Shamanism (Edited byy Kim TAEGON - Mihály HOPPÁL
- Otto von
SADOVSZKY) Budapest:
Akadémiai Kiadó. Bibliotheca Shamanistica vol. 1.
1995 Vogul Folklore Collected by B. MUNKÁCSI (Selected and edited by O. von SADOVSZKY - M. HOPPÁL) Budapest: Akadémiai K. - ISTOR Books vol. 4.
1996 Folk Beliefs and
Shamanistic Traditions in Siberia (Selected reprints edited by
V. DIÓSZEGI
- M. HOPPÁL) Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó. Bibliotheca
Shamanistica vol. 3.
1996 Shamanism in Siberia
(Selected reprints edited by V. DIÓSZEGI - M. HOPPÁL)
Budapest: Akadémiai
Kiadó. Bibliotheca Shamanistica vol. 2.
1997 Shamanic Songs and Myths of Tuva by M. KENIN-LOPSAN. (Selected and edited with an introduction by M. HOPPÁL) Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó - ISTOR Books vol. 7.
1998 1998 (second edition)
Studies on Shamanism (co-anthor A.-L. SIIKALA) Budapest:
Akadémiai
Kiadó
1998 Shamanism - Selected
Reprint of V. DIÓSZEGI.
Edited by M. HOPPAL.
Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó
Bibliotheca Shamanistica
vol.6.
1998 Közösség és folklór (Selected writings on folklore in Hungarian)
1999 Shamans in Eurasia: History and Symbols (in preparation)
1999 Ethnosemiotics - Studies on Tradition (in preparation)
FILMOGRAPHY
Kölcsei betlehem
(Nativity Play) - 1967 - 16 mm (16') Ethnography: É. Szacsvay,
Director: M. Hoppál
Sámánok
nyomában (Tracing Shamans) - 1975 - 16 mm (45') film
Ethnography and
script: M. Hoppál; Director: G. Rácz
Ráolvasás
(Incantation) - 1975 - 16 mm (27') black/white film
Ethnography: M.
Hoppál; Director: G. Rácz
Lakodalom Kisterenyén
(Wedding in a Village) - 1974 - 16 mm (54') black/white film
Directed by M. Hoppál
Pusztafalu (A Hungarian
Village in 1939 and 1979) – 1979
I-III. parts - 3x50
min. - 16 mm - black/white film
Ethnography: M.
Hoppál; Director: I. Szakály
The Shaman in Eurasia
- 1985-88 - 35 mm (34') colour film
Ethnographic Film
Essay by M. Hoppál and M. Jankovics
Prize in Miskolc
(1989) and in Pärnu (1990)
Pilgrimages in Hungary
- 1986-89 - 16 mm (54') colour film
Directed by M. Hoppál
and J. Tari
American Hungarians
- 1990-91 - (5x35 min.) video
I-V. parts. - from
the History of an emmigrant community in the USA
Directed by M. Hoppál
and L. B. Révész
Shamanism: Past and
Present 1994 - (part 1-2.) (35+45 min.) video
Ethnography and
directed by M. Hoppál. Montage by B. Kovács
World premier Oct.
18. 1994. Margaret Mead Film Festival, New York
Fejezetek a magyar néprajzi
filmezés történetébõl - 1994
- (I-V. parts 5x30 min.) – video
From the History
of Hungarian Ethographic Film
Research, edited
and co-directed by M. Hoppál and L. B. Révész
Sámánok
földjén - 1994 - (54 min.) video
(On the Land of
Shamans - Yakutia, Sakha Republik)
Directed by M. Hoppál
and L. Nádorfi
A Kut in Seoul (Shamanism
in South-Korea) - 1992-93 (45 min.) video
A documentary by
A. Guillemoz, G. Vargyas, K. Howard, M. Hoppál
'We still remember...'
- 1994 - (23 min.) video
On Nanai Death Culture
Ethnographic Documentary
by J. Pentikäinen
Edited and directed
by M. Hoppál
(HOPENTI production)
'The Pains of my people...'
- 1994 - (17 min.) video
Ethnographic Portrait
of a Nanay Shamaness
Produced and directed
by M. Hoppál and J. Pentikäinen
HOPENTI Production
'Shamans are flying
again' - 1994 - (20 min.) video
Juha Pentikäinen's
fieldwork with Siberian Shamans
Interview and directed
by M. Hoppál
HOPENTI Production
The Shamanic Painter
- 1995 - (36 min.) video
(Joska Soós
– a Hungarian artist living in Belgium)
Interview and directed
by M. Hoppál
Shaman ISSR Production
Shamans of Four Nations
- 1996 - (42 min.) video
Ethnography and
produced by M. Hoppál
Shaman Production
Távoli utakon
- 1996-97 - (42 min.) video
(For the memory
of a Hungarian ethnologist, Barathosi Balogh who traveled in
the Far East at
beginning of the 20th. century) Research and directed by M. Hoppál
Tracing Shamans - 1997
- (45 min.) video
(An ethnographic
documentary for the memory of V. Diószegi)
Research and directed
by M. Hoppál
Healing Drums 1996-97
- (42 min.)
An ethnographic
documentary on Shamanism in Tuva.
Ethnography and
produced by M. Hoppál
Shaman Production
Shamanism in Buryatia
- 1996-97 - (38 min.) video
A documentary on
the reneissance of shamanism
Ethnography and
produced by M. Hoppál
Shaman - Production
The Great Shaman - 1996-97
- (35 min.)
Portrait of a Mongol
Shaman
Interview and directed
by M. Hoppál
Shaman Production
Portrait of a Korean
mudang - 1995-97 - (30 min.)
Produced and directed
by M. Hoppál
Shaman Production
Shamanic Initiation
in Korea - 1977 - (45 min.)
Pictures of a naerim-kut
in Seoul
Produced and directed
by M. Hoppál (1994)
Shaman Production
Shamanism in Japan -
1996-98 - (25 min.)
Meeting with a khomiso
and an itako
Produced by M. Hoppál
Shaman Production
Family of Shamans -
1998 - (54 min.)
A Nganasan Story
Compiled by M. Hoppál
Shaman Production