László Kürti

Biographic Data

ID92739
NAMELászló Kürti
GIVEN NAMESLászló
FAMILY NAMEKürti
SIGNATUREKÜRTI L
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Miskolc
ORCID0000-0002-9634-7038
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS41
TOTAL CITATIONS84
AUTHOR COUNT38
EDITOR COUNT3
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1983
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2023
H-INDEX3

  • This Is Not Your Santa: Roma Children Visualize Christmas

    Open AccessLászló KürtiARTICLETraditiones2023References: 38

    By discussing visualizations of Christmas by Hungarian children, I integrate children's drawings and ideas about the holiday as they relate to education, authorship, and ways in which the Roma view the world. While images and figures of the traditional holiday appear as standard tropes, interpretations of the respective drawings provide insights into the children's perceptions of - and wishes and aspirations for Christmas. Their images highlight …

  • Fejős, Zoltán. 2020. “Kaper Kóntri.” Magyar rézbányászok Amerikában (‘“Kaper Kóntri.” Hungarian Copper Miners in America’). Budapest: Korall. 286 pp

    Open AccessLászló KürtiARTICLEHungarian Cultural Studies2021

  • Remains of Socialism: Memory and the Futures of the Past in Postsocialist Hungary by Maya Nadkarni

    László KürtiARTICLERegion Regional Studies of Russia…2021

    Reviewed by: Remains of Socialism: Memory and the Futures of the Past in Postsocialist Hungary by Maya Nadkarni László Kürti (bio) Maya Nadkarni. Remains of Socialism: Memory and the Futures of the Past in Postsocialist Hungary. xv + 234 pp. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2020. ISBN 9781501750182. Remains of Socialism is an important book, one of the first book-length anthropological treatments of the Hungarian memory industry since the fa…

  • Strictly Confidential Anthropology: Post-Truth, Secrecy and Silence in Society and Academia in Hungary

    Open AccessLászló KürtiARTICLEEthnologia Polona2021References: 6

    Anthropological interest in secrecy and silence - and related aspects such as lying, knowledge, memory, and forgetting - has been long and precarious. Through what may be called personal anthropology, in this article, I describe both private and professional anthropological experiences including family memories, fieldwork sites, and academic practices. By recalling state socialist ideology, censorship, and family secrets, I illustrate how citizen…

  • “Do You Want to Be Krampus?” Santa Claus, Globality and Locality of Christmas Tradition

    Open AccessLászló KürtiARTICLEHungarian Studies Yearbook2020

    In this paper the author argues that the Christmas holidays, notwithstanding their international standing as a religious and commercial season, are most productively understood as a glocal phenomena, a concept intended to link the local with the global in a dialectics of homogenization and particularism. Juxtaposing data from Hungary and Eastern Europe, the author provides an anthropological analysis that highlights the transformative power Chris…

  • Orbánism: The Culture of Illiberalism in Hungary

    Open AccessLászló KürtiARTICLEEthnologia Europaea2020Cited by: 2References: 33

    The 2016 election victory of Donald Trump and the UK referendum on 23 June 2016 to leave the European Union (Brexit) both signal tremendous alterations in global politics. What really connects these international changes to the steady popularity of Viktor Orbán in Hungary? This article describes how a newly emerging and growing transnational political process known as illiberal democracy has influenced Hungary and other states since the late 1990…

  • The Power of Song: Nonviolent National Culture in the Baltic Singing Revolution by Guntis Šmidchens

    László KürtiARTICLERegion Regional Studies of Russia…2017

    Reviewed by: The Power of Song: Nonviolent National Culture in the Baltic Singing Revolution by Guntis Šmidchens László Kürti (bio) Guntis Šmidchens. The Power of Song: Nonviolent National Culture in the Baltic Singing Revolution. x + 446 pp. Seattle: University of Washington Press; Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, 2014. ISBN 97802959945529. Guntis Šmidchens is a folklorist with an impeccable record on Baltic cultural history and folklore. Hi…

  • The People’s Game: Football, State, and Society in East Germany by Alan McDougall

    László KürtiARTICLERegion Regional Studies of Russia…2017

    Reviewed by: The People’s Game: Football, State, and Society in East Germany by Alan McDougall László Kürti (bio) Alan McDougall. The People’s Game: Football, State, and Society in East Germany. 362pp. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014. ISBN 9781107052031. “Everyone is an expert about football,” popular parlance has it in Eastern Europe. Alan McDougall has produced an excellent monograph on a little known aspect of socialist sport, foot…

  • The Politics of Otherness. Stereotypes in Hungarian Media

    Open AccessLászló KürtiARTICLETraditiones2017References: 10

    This analysis explores the dynamics of media cultures of Hungary which joined the EU in 2004. The problem of media presentation of minority images arises when media producers intend programs to produce certain effects and, in actuality, these shows produce other effects. This problem is most acute with respect to stereotypical majority images of the Gypsy/Roma minority. *** Analiza razkriva dinamiko medijske kulture na Madžarskem, ki se je Evrops…

  • Neoshamanism, National Identity and the Holy Crown of Hungary

    László KürtiARTICLEJournal of Religion in Europe2015

    This article analyzes state, national identity and religious revivalism by focusing on Hungarian neoshamanism and its connection to Hungary’s prized national symbol, the Holy Crown. In contrast to neoshamanic practices in the 1990s, the newly emergent forms of neoshamanism in Hungary have been incorporated into mainstream celebrations and major national holidays. How this happened and the underlying causes deserve serious scholarly scrutiny. By a…

  • The Way of the Táltos: A Critical Reassessment of a Religious-Magical Specialist Pota taltosov: Kritično ovrednotenje posvečenca v religijo in magijo

    Open AccessLászló KürtiARTICLEStudia mythologica Slavica2015Cited by: 1References: 11

    For a long time, Hungarian scholars debated the origin and structure of Hungarian folk religion and folk beliefs. This article considers the relevance of shamanism to Hungarian folk belief, especially the complex surrounding the táltos. This Hungarian magical practitioner reveals connections both with historical magical specialists and with recent ethnographical materials. There are, however, important questions that must be answered: for example…

  • ‘For the last time’: The Hiltman-Kinsey post-mortem photographs, 1918–1920

    László KürtiARTICLEVisual Studies2012

    Postmortem photography offers important challenges for media and visual specialists developing a critical analysis of intertextuality and visual narratives. This article shows how visual studies of postmortem photography can be expanded and nuanced by considering how cultural logics and historical contexts determine the practice of photographing the dead. I examine postmortem photographs executed between 1918 and 1920 in an immigrant community in…

  • Twenty Years After: Rock Music and National Rock in Hungary

    László KürtiARTICLERegion Regional Studies of Russia…2012Cited by: 3References: 13

    This article explores an underresearched topic in popular musical studies, the changes in the Hungarian popular music scene since the collapse of the Berlin Wall in 1989, and situates that research in a comparative perspective. It highlights some of the more obvious and less recognized developments: in particular, special attention is given to the ways in which the new "national rock" developed and was ideologized in the past two decades. The rel…

  • Postsocialist Europe: Anthropological perspectives from home

    László Kürti, Peter SkalníkBOOKPostsocialist Europe2009

    Now that nearly twenty years have passed since the collapse of the Soviet bloc there is a need to understand what has taken place since that historic date and where we are at the moment. Bringing together authors with different historical, cultural, regional and theoretical backgrounds, this volume engages in debates that address new questions arising from recent developments, such as whether there is a need to reject or uphold the notion of post…

  • Postsocialist Europe: Anthropological Perspectives From Home

    László Kürti, Peter SkalníkBOOKPostsocialist Europe2009

    Now that nearly twenty years have passed since the collapse of the Soviet bloc there is a need to understand what has taken place since that historic date and where we are at the moment. Bringing together authors with different historical, cultural, regional and theoretical backgrounds, this volume engages in debates that address new questions arising from recent developments, such as whether there is a need to reject or uphold the notion of post…

  • Cameras and other gadgets. Reflections on fieldwork experiences in socialist and post-socialist Hungarian communities

    Open AccessLászló KürtiARTICLESocial Anthropology2007

  • A Review of: “Whose Democracy? Nationalism, Religion, and the Doctrine of Collective Rights in Post-1989 Eastern Europe”

    László KürtiARTICLETerrorism and Political Violence2006

  • The ethics of spying: Responses to F. Moos, R. Fardon and H. Gusterson (At21[3])

    Open AccessLászló Kürti, Peter J M Nas et al.ARTICLEAnthropology Today2005Cited by: 3References: 2

  • Working Images: Visual Research and Representation in Ethnography

    Ana Isabel Alfonso, László Kürti et al.BOOKWorking Images2004Cited by: 56

  • Working Images

    Ana Isabel Afonso, Ana Isabel Alfonso et al.BOOKWorking Images2004

    Visual methods such as drawing, painting, video, photography and hypermedia offer increasingly accessible and popular resources for ethnographic research. In Working Images, prominent visual anthropologists and artists explore how old and new visual media can be integrated into contemporary forms of research and representation. Drawing upon projects undertaken both 'at home' in their native countries and abroad in locations such as Ethopia and Ve…

  • Global Colleagues: New Challenges to Research, Publication and Scholarship

    Open AccessLászló KürtiARTICLEAnthropology News2003

  • Psychic Phenomena, Neoshamanism, and the Cultic Milieu in Hungary

    László KürtiARTICLENova Religio The Journal of…2001

    Research Article| April 01 2001 Psychic Phenomena, Neoshamanism, and the Cultic Milieu in Hungary Láászlóó Küürti Láászlóó Küürti Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Nova Religio (2001) 4 (2): 322–350. https://doi.org/10.1525/nr.2001.4.2.322 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon…

  • Uncertain Anthropology: Ethnography of Postsocialist Eastern Europe. A Review Article

    László KürtiARTICLEEthnos2000

    Compte-rendu critique et detaille de quatre ouvrages recents qui traitent des changements socioculturels et des phenomenes de transition en Europe de l'Est (au sens large) depuis l'effondrement de l'URSS : G. W. Creed, Domesticating revolution: From socialist reform to ambivalent transition in a Bulgarian village (1998) ; C. Wanner, Burden of dreams: History and identity in post-Soviet Ukraine (1998) ; C. Humphrey & D. Sneath, The end of nomadism…

  • Cameras and other gadgets. Reflections on fieldwork experiences in socialist and post-socialist Hungarian communities

    Open AccessLászló KürtiARTICLESocial Anthropology1999

    Cet article met en perspective les experiences de terrains successifs, les premiers datant des annees 80, les seconds des annees 90 apres l'effondrement du socialisme d'etat. L'analyse compare les jeunes ouvriers de Csepel, faubourg industriel de Budapest, a une population hongroise de la Transylvanie roumaine. Cherchant a comprendre les changements qui ont affecte ces deux communautes et les implications de ceux-ci pour les anthropologues, l'aut…

  • National Minority Cultures in Hungary

    Open AccessLászló KürtiARTICLENationalities Papers1999

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