Vargyas Gábor: Istenek, ősök és sámánok (Szentendre, Szabadtéri Néprajzi Múzeum, 2012)

GÁBOR VARGYAS Born in Budapest (Hungary) May 22, 1952. Married (1975), two children (Bálint 1978, Judit 1980). Education: 1971-1976: studies in Russian and French philology and literature, and in Ethnography at Eötvös Lóránd University, Budapest, Faculty of Humanities. Diploma (MA) in Ethnography in 1976. Career History: 1977-1979: Doctoral fellow, Department of Ethnography, ELTE University, Budapest 1979-1984: Curator for Pacific collections, Ethnographical Museum, Budapest 1984 - : Research fellow, Institute of Ethnology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest; 1996: Senior research fellow; 2010: Scientific adviser 1993 - : Associate professor in anthropology, Department of Ethnography (later Dept. of European Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology), the University of Pécs, Hungary; 1996: Reader; 2001-2007: head of Department; 2011: full time professor Scientific degrees and titles: PhD, ELTE University, 1981 Hungarian Academy of Sciences, „candidate of ethnographical sciences" (CSc), 1995 Habilitation: The University of Pécs, Faculty of Humanities, Department of European Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, 2008 Doctor of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (DSc), 2010. Fie Id work: 1981-82: Papua-New-Guinea (3 months) and Australia (1,5 months). 1985-1989 and 2007: altogether 24 months of ethnographic fieldwork among a Central Vietnamese hill tribe, the Bru. In addition numerous shorter field trips and research work (1-2 months) in East- and Southeast-Asian countries (South-China 1999; Korea, 1991; Laos, 1996), Indonesia (1993) and Africa ((Brazzaville)-Kongo and Angola, 1987). Basel (1995), Paris (1990, 1995) and Hanoi (2002); a UNESCO expert in Vietnam (1994) and Laos (1996). He benefited from several longer foreign scholarships (e.g. Australia, 1981-82; France 1991-92, 1996-97 and 1999). Between 2005-2008 he was associated research fellow of the Vietnamese project of the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle (Germany). Awards: „János Jankó award" of the Hungarian Ethnographical Society, 1984; „The Most Important Intellectual Achievement of the Year", The University of Pécs, 2000; „Uránia" award at the „Dialektus" Film Festival, Budapest, 2002. Most Important publications: Data on the Pictorial History of Northeast Papua New Guinea. (Occasional Papers in Anthropology 1.) Budapest, Ethnographical Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 1986, Field Notes from the Astrolabe Bay (Madang Province, Papua New Guinea). (Occasional Papers in Anthropology 2.) Budapest, Ethnographical Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 1987. A la recherche des Brou perdus, population montagnarde du Centre Indochinois. Les Cahiers de PENINSULE No.5. Etudes Orientales, Olizane, 2000. Dacolva az elkerülhetetlennel. Egy közép-vietnami hegyi törzs, a brúk kultúrája és vallása. (Válogatott tanulmányok.) (Kultúrák keresztútján, 8.) Budapest, L'Harmattan, 2008. Vargyas, Gábor (ed. by): Passageways. From Hungarian Ethnography to European Ethnology and Sociocultural Anthropology. (Studia Ethnologica Hungarica, XII.) L'Harmattan - PTE Néprajz - Kulturális Antropológia Tanszék, Budapest, 2009. Vargyas Gábor (szerk.): Párbeszéd a hagyománnyal. A néprajzi kutatás múltja és jelene. Tudományos konferencia a PTE Néprajz - Kulturális Antropológia Tanszék jubiláló professzorai: Andrásfalvy Bertalan, Filep Antal, Kisbán Eszter és Pócs Éva tiszteletére. (Studia Ethnologica Hungarica, XIII.) L'Harmattan - PTE Néprajz - Kulturális Antropológia Tanszék, Budapest, 2011. Scholarships, study trips, conferences, lectures: Since 1979 he has been participating in Hungarian and international conferences. He has made study trips and held lectures in many countries in Europe and Asia, and also in Australia and the USA; he was guest professor in 5