Atilla Mátéffy

Contact

atilla.mateffy@gmail.com

  • 10/2018 – present Doctorate Student at the University of Bonn in the structured doctorate programme “Bonn International Graduate Schools – Oriental and Asian Studies (BIGS-OAS)”
  • 10/2016 – 03/2021 Master of Arts Mongolian Studies, Univerity of Bonn
  • 09/2010 – 06/2012 Master of Arts in Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, University of Szeged, Hungary
  • 09/2009 – 06/2011 Master of Arts in Altaic Studies, University of Szeged, Hungary
  • 09/2006 – 06/2009 Bachelor in Ethnography and Cultural Anthropology, University of Szeged, Faculty of Arts (Hungary); Auxiliary Subject: Altaic Studies
  • 04/2017 – 03/2020 Book cataloguer (Wissenschaftliche Hilfskraft) in the Faculty Library of Institute of Oriental and Asian Studies (IOA), University of Bonn

Articles and book sections

  •  Mátéffy, A. 2021. (forthcoming) Sword Bridge, Chinvat Bridge and Golden Deer: Passages to the Otherworld in Vedic, Zoroastrian, Sarmatian and Arthurian Tradition. Cosmos, Proceedings of the 11th Annual International Conference on Comparative Mythology, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.
  •  Mátéffy, A. 2018. (forthcoming) Hunting and Marriage: Environmental Perception and Pre-linguistic Image Schemas in the Cognition of Early Hunter-Gatherers and Nomads in Central Eurasia. In Apatóczky, Á. B. & I. Zimonyi (eds) Proceedings of the 60th PIAC Conference. Budapest: Studia Uralo-Altaica.
  • Mátéffy, A. 2017. The Wonderful Deer (ATU 401): A Pre-Buddhist Inner Asian Cultural Substratum Element in Tibetan Cosmology. Pp. 337-349. In Mátéffy, A., Szabados, Gy. and Csernyei, T. (eds) Shamanhood and Mythology: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy and Current Techniques of Research. In Honour of Mihály Hoppál, celebrating his 75th Birthday. Budapest: Hungarian Society for Religious Studies.
  • Mátéffy, A. 2016. Mothers in Power: Phase Transitions of the Turn to Myth. The Case of Violant of Hungary, Satanaya of the Nart Epic, and Alan-Qo’a with Lady Hö’elün of the Secret History of the Mongols. In Lisiecki, M., L. Milne and N. Yanchevskaya (eds) Power and Speech. Mythology of the Social and the Sacred. Torun: Eikon. Pp. 217-228.
  •  Mátéffy, A. 2015. Mother Mary in the Rising Sun: A “Ritual Drama” among the Csango Hungarians. Sprawy Narodowościowe, Seria nowa / Nationalities Affairs, New series, 47: 80-94.
  • Mátéffy, A. 2014. The Earth-Diver: Hungarian Variants of the Myth of the Dualistic Creation of the World – Pearls in the Primeval Sea of World Creation. Sociology Study 4 (5): 423-437.
  • Mátéffy, A. 2013. Az Árpád-ház szerepe a csodaszarvas-történetek európai elterjedésében (The Role of the Árpád Dynasty in the Dissemination of the Legends of Wonderful Deer in Europe). Ethnographia 124 (1): 1-40.
  •  Mátéffy, A. 2012. The Hind as the Ancestress, Ergo Virgin Mary – Comparative Study about the Common Origin Myth of the Hun and Hungarian People. Sociology Study 2 (12): 941-962.

Reviews

  • Mátéffy, A. 2020. Magyar, Zoltán: A Magyar történeti mondák katalógusa. Typus- és motívumindex, I-XI (Catalogue of Hungarian Historical Legends. Type and Motif Index I-XI). Budapest: Kairosz Kiadó, 2018. Fabula, 61 (1-2): 202-207.
  • Mátéffy, A. 2017. Ippei Shimamura: The Roots Seekers. Shamanism and Ethnicity among the Mongol Buryats. Shumpusha Publishing, Momijigaoka, Jokohama; 2014. 577 p. Ethnographia, 128 (3): 533-534.
  • Mátéffy, A. 2016. Pomedli, Michael: Living with Animals: Ojibwe Spirit Powers. Toronto, Buffalo, London: University of Toronto Press. 2014. Ethnographia, 127 (3): 476-477.
  • Mátéffy, A. 2014. Hoppál Mihály: Avrasya’da Şamanlar. Istanbul: Yapı Kredi Yayınları, 2012. Ethnographia, 125 (2): 308-309.
  • 06/2021 to 05/2022 (12 months) DAAD Jahresstipendien für Doktorandinnen und Doktoranden 2020/2021 (DAAD Research Grant for PhD Students), Religion, Cognition and Culture Research Unit (RCC), Department of the Study of Religion, Aarhus University.
  • 2020 (3 weeks) BIGS-OAS Short Trip Research Grant (postponed).
  • 2015/16 (10 months) DAAD Research Grant, Department of Turkish Studies and Central Asian Studies, University of Göttingen, Germany; Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Jens Peter Laut.
  • 2015 (2 months) DAAD Intensive German Language Course (C1 level), Goethe Institute, Göttingen, Germany.
  • 2014 (2 months) DAAD Intensive German Language Course (level B2), Marburg, Germany.
  • 2013/14 (8 months) Başarı Bursu (Success Scholarship Program for Graduate Students), Republic of Turkey Prime Ministry, Presidency for Turks Abroad and Related Communities, Republic of Turkey.
  • 2010/11 (5 months) Balassi Institute – Hungarian Scholarship Board Office, Partial Studies in Mongolia, Mongolian State University, Ulaanbaatar.

  • 04/2021 “On the Common Origin of the Old Turkic birlä and Hungarian vēle/vele ‘together, with’ Postpositional Phrases as well as -lA and -val/-vel Comitative and Instrumental Markers”, ConCALL-4 (4th Conference of Central Asian Language and Linguistics, Indiana University, USA

  • 10/2020 “The Wonderful Deer Motif Sequence (AaTh 401/ATU 400) as an Indigenous Totemic-Like Substratum in the Central Eurasian Heroic Epic Traditions”, International Scientific Online Conference «The Epic of Geser — the spiritual heritage of the peoples of Central Asia», Ulan-Ude, Russia

  • 10/2019 “The Sarmatian Connection Reconsidered: The Pursue of the Doe in the Caucasian Nart Epic, in the Hungarian origin Myth and in the Arthurian Legends”, 20th Annual Conference of the Central Eurasian Studies Society (CESS), George Washington University, Washington D.C., USA

  • 06/2019 “Transformation and Passage in a North Eurasian Mythological and Ritual Tradition: Animism, Shamanism, Embodiment, and Indigenous Ontology”, 13th Annual International Conference on Comparative Mythology, Estonian Literary Museum, Tartu, Estonia

  • 06/2019 “An Indigenous Central Eurasian Belief and Ontological Categorization System: The totemic marriage between the hunter and the wild reindeer doe”, EASR 2019, Tartu, Estonia

  • 11/2018 “Color Categorization and the Problems of Language Typology of Transeurasian Languages: The Case of Embodied Visual Perception of the Optical Phenomena of Light and the Color Name Red”, 13th High Desert Linguistics Society Conference, University of New Mexico.

  • 10/2018 “Central Eurasian and North Asian Indigenous Ontologies: The Totemic Marriage Between the Hunter and the Chased Doe”, 19th Annual Conference of the Central Eurasian Studies Society (CESS), University of Pittsburgh, USA.

  • 10/2018 “Sarmatian-Celtic Cultural Contacts in Thrace and Beyond: Trade of Central Eurasian Beliefs, Religious Concepts and More”, The Second Eurasian Doctoral Colloquium, Bonn, Germany.

  • 06/2018 “The Emergence of Other Beings Instead of Humankind at the End of the World: Some Hungarian Eschatological Legends and Fragments Corresponding with the Mongolian Buddhist Concepts”, Twelfth Annual International Conference on Comparative Mythology (IACM), Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan.

  • 04/2018 “The Cognitive Foundations of an Ancient North Eurasian Religious System: A Case Study of Perception, Categorization, Semantics, and Embodiment”, Eighth International Conference on Religion & Spirituality in Society, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, USA.

  • 02/2018 “Siberian Strata of the Oirat Ethnic Identity: The Qasing Qan ba tegün-ü čečen tüsimel and the North Asian Indigenous Ontologies”, The Oirat and Kalmyk in Mongolia, Russia, Kyrgyzstan and China – Looking for an Oirat identity in the 20th and 21st century. International Conference, State and University Library of Göttingen University, Germany.

  • 09/2017 “Mongolization of Basic Color Terms and of the Theory of Basic Color Terms and its Critics: A Case Study About the Visual Perception of Optical Phenomena of Light in Mongolian Language, and the Problem of ’Colour Universals’, Linguistic Relativity, as well as Western-Centrism of Social Sciences”, 33. Deutscher Orientalistentag, „Asien, Afrika und Europa”, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Jena, Germany.

  • 08/2017 “Hunting and Marriage: Environmental Perception and Pre-Linguistic Image Schemas in the Cognition of Early Hunter-Gatherers and Nomads in Central Eurasia”, 60th Annual Meeting of the PIAC: Ideas Behind Symbols – Languages Behind Scripts. Székesfehérvár, Hungary.

  • 06/2017 “The Sword Bridge, the Chinvat Bridge as well as the Golden Deer and the Tutelary Spirits of the Shaman: The Coherent Symbols and Characters of the Passage to the Otherworld”, 11th Annual International Conference on Comparative Mythology, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.

  • 03/2017 “Changes in the Structure and Roles of a Homeland Ritual in a Moldavian Csango Village through the Lens of Dwelling and Work Migration”, 13th SIEF Congress, University of Göttingen, Germany.

  • 11/2016 “Gateway to Western Europe: The Northeaster Carpathian Mountains as Cultural Pass between the Eurasian Steppes and the Western Sedentary World”, American Folklore Society and ISFNR. 2016 AFS/ISFNR Joint Annual Meeting, Hyatt Regency Miami, Miami, Florida, USA.

  • 07/2016 “The Legacy of a Totemic Belief and its Transmission in the 21st Century”, European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA), 14th Biennial Conference, Department of Human Science for Education 'Riccardo Massa' and Department of Sociology and Social Research, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milano, Italy.

  • 10/2015 “A Shamanic Origin »Ritual Drama« and its Sacred Space in East-Central Europe under Threat of the Changes of the 21th Century”, The Twelfth Conference of International Society for Academic Research on Shamanism (ISARS), European Cultural Centre of Delphi, Greece.

  • 05/2014 “The Fight and Marriage of the Hero with the Daughter of the Dragon King”, 8th Annual International Conference on Comparative Mythology (IACM), Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia, Yerevan, Armenia.

  • 10/2013 “Hungarian Variants of the Myth of the Dualistic Creation of the World”, Central Eurasian Studies Society (CESS) 14th Annual Conference, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, USA.

  • 09/2012 “Hungarian Verbs of Old Turkish Origin”, VII. Uluslararası Türk Dili Kurultayı, 7th International Congress of Turkish Language. Türk Dil Kurumu (The Turkish Language Association), Ankara, Turkey.