Földessy Edina, Szűcs Alexandra, Wilhelm Gábor: Tabula 3/2 (Néprajzi Közlemények; Budapest, 2000)

ZEMPLÉNI ANDRÁS: A mozgókép, a terepmunka és az elmélet (Jan János interjúja Zempléni Andrással)

The moving image, fieldwork and theory András Zempléni completed his university education in Paris at the Sorbonne, where he studied ethnology, psychiatry and linguistics. He defended his dissertation in I 968 based on an ethno-psychiatric study carried out among the Wolof and Lebu peoples of Senegal. He is the co-founder of the school of Dakar and the author of several works in medical anthropology based on fieldworks among the Wolof of Senegal, the Moundang of Tchad and the Nafara (Senufo) of Côte d'Ivoire. Assisting in the filming of possession rites in Senegal and making films in the course of a subsequent research of initiation rites and mourning rituals, as well as divination consultations among the Senufo of Côte d'Ivoire raised numerous theoretical and practical questions for him. Zempléni addresses these questions in the present interview. He considers arriving at a "common viewpoint" by the observed and the observer both in anthropological fieldwork and in the filming of rituals to be of paramount importance.