Andrasfalvy, Bertalan

Ethnographer

Bertalan Andrásfalvy, Doctor of ethnography, was born in Sopron in 1931. He concluded his university studies at the Romanian, Hungarian and Musicology-Folklore Departments of Eötvös Lóránd University (ELTE). Between 1985 and 1989 he was senior research fellow and head of department of the Folklore Research Group of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA). Between 1990 and 1993 he was minister of culture and education and from 1993 university professor at Janus Pannonius University. His fields of research are popular farming, vine growing, fruit farming, animal husbandry, folk dance, historic folklore research, the co-existence and mutual influence of various folk cultures and the future importance of popular traditions in mainstream culture. He has published books on the traditional flood area farming of Hungarians and a course book on folklore; he is also the author of some 160 scientific articles.

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