Mihaly HOPPAL

Mihaly

HOPPAL

Mihály Hoppál DSc. was born in Hungary (1942). He is the former director of the Institute of Ethnology of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest.
He is an internationally published author in the field of comparative mythology (especially Finno-Ugric) and shamanism. He did fieldwork in Siberia, Korea and China. Some basic collections of essays on shamanism has been edited by him: Diószegi, V. – Hoppál, M.(eds.) Shamanism in Siberia. Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó 1978; Hoppál, M. – Sadovszky, O.(eds.): Shamanism: Past and Present. Budapest – Los Angeles/Fullerton: ISTOR Books vol. 1–2. 1989; He published the visual history of Eurasian shamanism in his books: Shamans: Souls and Symbols. Budapest: Helikon Kiadó, 1992. (in Hungarian and in German: Schamanen und Schamanismus. Augsburg: Pattloch, 1994. also published in Japanese and Chinese).Collections of his articles: Shaman and Traditions. Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2007; Studies on Mythology and Uralic Shamanism. Budapest: 2000; Das Buch der Shamanen: Europa und Asien. München: Ullstein: 2002 (also published in Finnish and Estonian in 2003, enlarged edition in Hungarian 2005, in Polish 2009, in Turkish 2012). Uralic Mythologies and Shamans. Budapest: Institute of Ethnology 2010. Shaman Songs (co-author: J. Sipos)
Budapest: ISSR 2010. He co-authored (with Marcell Jankovics) an ethnographic film: The Shaman in Eurasia which won the pize for the best scientific documentation in Estonia (Pärnu 1990) at the international ethnographic film festival.
He also produced a series of documentary films on Yakut, Nanay, Buryat, Manchu, Kirghiz, Daur, Korean, Tuvan, Manshi and Nganasan shamans. He is one of the foundereditor of the journal Shaman and Bibliotheca Shamanistica, he also is the current president of
the International Society for Shamanistic Research

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