Emese Ilyefalvi
Biographic Data
| ID | 903139 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Emese Ilyefalvi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Emese |
| FAMILY NAME | Ilyefalvi |
| SIGNATURE | ILYEFALVI E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Eötvös Loránd University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6677-5843 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Why People Go to Mediums
This article examines contemporary mediumship in Hungary through ethnographic research among practitioners of a three‐legged stool technique and their clients. Drawing on interviews, participant observation and analysis of séance practices, the study explores why people seek contact with the dead and how these encounters generate experiential certainty, address crises and produce new forms of meaning. By situating the Hungarian material within br…
The Possibilities of Enhanced Reading
This study explores the potential of digital text analysis in examining Hungarian verbal charms. Using the Voyant Tools platform, it applies keyword frequency analysis, collocational network mapping, and distribution visualizations to a digitized corpus of over 6,000 annotated texts and metadata. The paper compares historical and ethnographic subcorpora, emphasizing how collection methods, researcher preferences, and questionnaire design have sha…
Egy online bibliográfiai adatbázis első eredményei
First results of an online bibliographic database: Ethnographic and local history works of pastors, priests from the 18th century to the mid-20th century This article presents preliminary results from an online bibliography focusing on the ethnographic and local historical works of the clergy from the 18th to the mid-20th century.It highlights the significant contributions of priests, pastors, and ministers to the development of folkloristics and…
Distant Reading of the Metadata of the Digitized Hungarian Charm Corpus
Based on Éva Pócs’ manual charm index an online database was created for Hungarian verbal charms within the East–West Research Group at the Institute of Ethnology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Budapest), between 2013 and 2018. The main goal was to create a multidimensional digital database. Digital text preparation would open the gates to new interpretations and analyses, which would bring us closer to understanding the compound and complex phe…
Witchcraft and Demonology – Topics, Methods and Trends in Witchcraft Research in Hungary, 2017
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Dilemmas of Corpus Construction beyond Folklore Collections
During the corpus-building operation of the Digital Database of Hungarian Verbal Charms we tried to augment the available material by the inclusion of witness statements of witch trials conducted in early modern Bihar County and the town of Debrecen. My paper explores the kinds of dilemmas and issues we were faced with concentrating especially on generic questions of verbal charms. As regards the exploration of early modern written sources of ver…
The theoretical, methodological and technical issues of digital folklore databases and computational folkloristics
The study examines the problems and possibilities presented by the digitization of national folklore archives and collections in the wider context of folklore archiving and digital humanities. The primary goal of the study is to present a problem-oriented and critical overview of the available digital databases containing folklore texts (WossiDiA, Sagragrunnur, ETKSpace, Danish Folklore Nexus, Nederlandse VolksverhalenBank, The Schools' Collectio…
The theoretical, methodological and technical issues of digital folklore databases and computational folkloristics
The study examines the problems and possibilities presented by the digitization of national folklore archives and collections in the wider context of folklore archiving and digital humanities. The primary goal of the study is to present a problem-oriented and critical overview of the available digital databases containing folklore texts (WossiDiA, Sagragrunnur, ETKSpace, Danish Folklore Nexus, Nederlandse VolksverhalenBank, The Schools' Collectio…
The theoretical, methodological and technical issues of digital folklore databases and computational folkloristics
The study examines the problems and possibilities presented by the digitization of national folklore archives and collections in the wider context of folklore archiving and digital humanities. The primary goal of the study is to present a problem-oriented and critical overview of the available digital databases containing folklore texts (WossiDiA, Sagragrunnur, ETKSpace, Danish Folklore Nexus, Nederlandse VolksverhalenBank, The Schools' Collectio…
Witchcraft and Demonology – Topics, Methods and Trends in Witchcraft Research in Hungary, 2017
Sciendo provides publishing services and solutions to academic and professional organizations and individual authors. We publish journals, books, conference proceedings and a variety of other publications
Dilemmas of Corpus Construction beyond Folklore Collections
During the corpus-building operation of the Digital Database of Hungarian Verbal Charms we tried to augment the available material by the inclusion of witness statements of witch trials conducted in early modern Bihar County and the town of Debrecen. My paper explores the kinds of dilemmas and issues we were faced with concentrating especially on generic questions of verbal charms. As regards the exploration of early modern written sources of ver…
Distant Reading of the Metadata of the Digitized Hungarian Charm Corpus
Based on Éva Pócs’ manual charm index an online database was created for Hungarian verbal charms within the East–West Research Group at the Institute of Ethnology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Budapest), between 2013 and 2018. The main goal was to create a multidimensional digital database. Digital text preparation would open the gates to new interpretations and analyses, which would bring us closer to understanding the compound and complex phe…
Egy online bibliográfiai adatbázis első eredményei
First results of an online bibliographic database: Ethnographic and local history works of pastors, priests from the 18th century to the mid-20th century This article presents preliminary results from an online bibliography focusing on the ethnographic and local historical works of the clergy from the 18th to the mid-20th century.It highlights the significant contributions of priests, pastors, and ministers to the development of folkloristics and…
The Possibilities of Enhanced Reading
This study explores the potential of digital text analysis in examining Hungarian verbal charms. Using the Voyant Tools platform, it applies keyword frequency analysis, collocational network mapping, and distribution visualizations to a digitized corpus of over 6,000 annotated texts and metadata. The paper compares historical and ethnographic subcorpora, emphasizing how collection methods, researcher preferences, and questionnaire design have sha…
Why People Go to Mediums
This article examines contemporary mediumship in Hungary through ethnographic research among practitioners of a three‐legged stool technique and their clients. Drawing on interviews, participant observation and analysis of séance practices, the study explores why people seek contact with the dead and how these encounters generate experiential certainty, address crises and produce new forms of meaning. By situating the Hungarian material within br…
Computer Science (3 works) · History (3 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Artificial Intelligence (2 works) · Context (archaeology (2 works) · Digital Humanities and Scholarship (2 works) · Folklore (2 works) · Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies (2 works)