Anthropologists not only for anthropologists!

Lecture series apropos of The Other exhibition
at the Museum of Ethnography
First lecture: 11 December 2008.
Further Lectures: 15 January 2009, 19 February 2009, 12 March 2009, 26 March 2009.

The Museum of Ethnography has launched a 5-piece lecture series where some of the greatest representatives of cultural anthropology in Hungary and abroad talk about their fieldwork experiences, the relationship between the researcher and the researched and the formation of mutual images of the Other in the course of research.
The first lecture will be presented on the 11th of December by British anthropologist Michael Stewart who has become famous with his book titled „Brothers in Song” based on his fieldwork among the Vlach Gypsies in Hungary.

Lectures and dates in the series:
11 December 2008 (Thursday), 5pm
Michael Stewart: How does the Gypsy become the „Other”– some historical and contemporary considerations

15 January 2009. (Thursday) 5pm
Ákos Östör: Being there, understanding, portraying –fieldworks in India

19 February 2009. (Thursday) 5pm
Anna Losonczy: „The homely stranger”

12 March 2009. (Thursday) 5pm
Zoltán Fejős: Emigrants – the boundaries of „us” and „them”

206 March 2009. (Thursday) 5pm
Gábor Vargyas: Everyday exotica. The Other in the mountains of Central Vietnam

Further information:
Gabriella Szalmási
press relations and professional communications
Museum of Ethnography
Tel: (36 1) 473 24 23
Cell phone: (36) 30 558 77 42
gabriella.szalmasi@neprajz.hu