PERSONAL DATA
Name: SZABÓ
Surname: Árpád Töhötöm
E-mail: szabo_tohotom@yahoo.com
Date and place of birth: 28.10.1975., Odorheiu Secuiesc, Romania
FIELDS OF RESEARCH
Ethnography of rural economy, economic anthropology, peasant studies, rural economic conditions, relation between ethnicity and economy, production of locality, changes of rurality, history of science.
HIGHER STUDIES:
2001–2008 PhD in ethnology, University of Debrecen, Faculty of Arts, Department of Ethnology
1999–2000: MA in socio-ethnolinguistics at “Babeş-Bolyai” University, Faculty of Letters, Cluj-Napoca.
1995–1999: BA in in Hungarian Language and Literature – Ethnology at “Babeş-Bolyai” University, Faculty of Letters
1990–1995: High school: “Benedek Elek” Teachers’ Training School, Odorheiu Secuiesc;
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY:
EDUCATIONAL EXPERIENCE:
1. Babeş–BolyaiUniversity, Cluj – Romania, Faculty of Letters, Department of Hungarian Ethnography and Anthropology
Position and function: Assistant professor (2012–), assistant lecturer (2005–2012), part time lecturer (2001–2005)
2. Babeş–BolyaiUniversity, Cluj – Romania, Faculty of Sociology and Social Work, Department of Sociology
Position and function: part time lecturer (2005–2009)
3. RuganestiPrimary School (HarghitaCounty)
Position and function: teacher of Hungarian language and literature (1999–2001)
LIST OF TAUGHT COURSES:
Introduction to cultural anthropology – seminar
Introduction to ethnography – seminar
Rural economy – seminar
Economy and way of life – course and seminar
Social anthropology – seminar
Cultural interferences – seminar
Strategy and mentality – between traditions and modernity – course and seminar
Anthropology of household customs (Department of Sociology)
LANGUAGES SKILLS
Hungarian – mother tongue
Romanian – advanced
English – reading and writing: advanced, speaking: upper intermediate
Russian – intermediate
RESEARCH:
2009–2012 research on relation of economic activities and ethnic groups in a Transylvanian micro-region
2001–2008 researches in economic anthropology on the autonomous institutions that organize the economic life of the communities and the reciprocal work (FeernicValley, TârnavaMicăValley, Trei Scaune Region)
2004–2008 The forms of the locality (production of locality), the changing structures of identity in the context of the national and regional level
2003–2004 Rural research program: the economic and development problems of a micro-region (Târnava Mică valley, coordinator)
2001–2002 Patrimoine et dialogue entre les cultures, Lyon–Budapest–Debrecen–Cluj.
1999–2000 Micro-research on speaking about and representations of gypsies in a community, economic relations between Gypsies and Hungarians
1998–2000 Research on rural economy, sheep farming and community in Luna de Sus
1996–1997 Research on interethnic relations in a Covasna county village
OTHER JOBS:
Tranzit Foundation – Cluj
Position and function: manager (2001 january – september)
OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES:
2011– director of Hungarian University Federation – Cluj
2009– Founding member of Rural Studies Working Group of FUMC–KMEI
2007– Sub-manager of HungarianUniversity Federation – Cluj
2006– research fellow of Regional Studies Workgroup of FUMC–KMEI, Cluj
2002– Vice-president of Kriza János Ethnographic Society, Cluj
1995–1998 Founding member and editor of Perspektíva, the weekly of the Hungarian students in Cluj
CHANGE OF EXPERIENCES, VISITING PROFESOR:
Nov 2007 Visiting fellow at Institute of Ethnology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest (HU)
Feb–Jun 2010 Research fellow at the Department of Archaeology, History, Cultural Studies and Religion, University of Bergen (NO)
Oct 2011 – Feb 2012 NewDem fellow at the CentralEuropeanUniversity – Institute for Advanced Studies, Budapest (HU)
STUDY AND RESEARCH GRANTS
2009–2012 Postdoctoral research grant BOLYAI (HungarianAcademy of Sciences)
2004–2007 Individual research grant of the HungarianAcademy of Sciences
2003–2004 Research grant for workgroups of the HungarianAcademy of Sciences
2001–2004 PhD scholarship of Ministry of Education (Hungary) for Hungarian students abroad
MEMBERSHIP IN SCIENTIFIC ORGANISATIONS
Member of the Society of Hungarian Scientists and Scholars
Member of Kriza János Ethnographic Society
Member of EASA
Member of SIEF
AWARDS, PRIZES
2011 BBU award for academic management
CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS ATTENDED
2013 Cultures of mobility and immobility. 10th Annual Conference of the Romanian Society for Social and Cultural Anthropology (SASC), Sibiu, 17-19 October 2013, előadás: Strangers, locals and the production of local knowledge
2012 Who owns the tradition? International Scientific Session, 6 December 2012, multiple organizers. Presentation: Self-sufficiency, Moral Values and Cooperation: Traditional Reciprocal Work in Transylvania
2012 WCRS 2012, Lisbon. XIII World Congress of Rural Sociology. 29 July – 4 August, International Rural Sociology Association. Presentation: Work, access to resources and the forms of Roma integration/marginalization in Transylvanian rural communities
2012 The German Diaspora in Eastern and Central Europe and the former Soviet Union. Durham University, School of Government and International Affairs. 22–23 June. Presentation: The German neighbours: culture, economy and ethnicity in a Transylvanian micro-region
2011 Creativity and inventions in the household economy. Presented at the 17. Seminar of Hungarian Ethnographic Society. Veszprém, October 21-22, 2011.
2011 People make places. Ways of feeling the world. SIEF 2011, Lisbon, 17–21 April. Panel: What is shaping rural futures? From perceptions to outcomes. Presentation: Re-producing the rural in Transylvanian contexts: outsiders, factors and rural responses
2010 Crisis and imagination. 11th EASA Biennial Conference. Maynooth, Ireland 24–27th August. Presentation: Where are the tourists? Shifting production, changing localities in a Szekler village)
2009 Two Decades of Scholarship: Romani Studies in Romania (1989-2009). Organizer: Insitutul pentru Studierea Problemelor Minorităţilor Naţionale. Cluj, 9-10 October. (From local to external resources: ethnicity and economic strategies in a Transylvanian village)
2009 16th Conference of the SIEF’s International Ethnocartography Network. Organizers: Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, University of Szeged, Institute of Ethnology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Szeged, 12-14 September (Fading regional borders? The viewpoint of rural economy and lifestyle)
2009 Conference Series on Theoretical and Practical Issues of Built Heritage Conservation – Tusnad 2009, ARMIT – Colţeşti, 27-28 May, (The use of family buildings as form of socio-economical adaptation)
2008 Orientation in the Occurrence. Interdisciplinary approach to the complex cultural processes. Organizer: Department of Hungarian Literature, Babeş–Bolyai University and Department of Modern Literature, University of Pécs, Cluj, 17–18 of October (Presentation: How does ethnography shape between events and ethnographic Interpretation)
2008 The empiric research of ethnicity – dilemmas. Annual conference of Research Institute of Ethnic and National Minorities. Budapest, 11–12 of June. (Panel Work, statute and consumption)
2008 The changes of the roles and the forms of the communities in folk society. Organizer: Hungarian Ethnographic Society, Szeged–Domaszék, 17–18 of April (Presentation: Ideologies and demands related to community. The change of the rural economy through to prism of an association)
2008 “Eye – Vision – Look. The opportunities of the observant” University of Pécs, Cultural Studies PhD Program. Pécs, Hungary, 28–30 of March Presented paper: “The Expropriation of the Story in Ethnographic Interpretation.”
2007 The 6th summer seminar of social scientists. Organizer: Jakabffy Foundation – Harghita County Cultural Centre, 20–24 of August, Szeltersz, Harghita County (Panel: Rural development – regional studies – rural sociology in Transylvania)
2007 “New Curricula in Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology in Europe – Reflections”, University of Zagreb, Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, 4–7 of June, Presented paper: “Anthropological Challenge – Ethnographic Tradition. The Quiet Transition of the Hungarian Ethnography in Romania”
2006 “Subcultures – definitions, typologies. Case studies.” Department of Hungarian Ethnography and Anthropology, Babeş–Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, 24–25 of May, Presented paper: “Dupa garduri [Behind Fences] – the Other Side”
2006 The Modernization of East Central Europe, Demographic and sociological work group: Motorway baseline survey – workshop on preliminary decisions (survey methods, sampling, classification, the questionnaire), 20–21 of February
2005 NGO-s in public sphere. The 3rd conference of FIKUSZ. Organizer: The Federation of the Young Scholars. Mezőkövesd, Hungary, 22–24 of September (Panel: The role of the NGO-s in the scientific research)
2005 “The faces of modernity – cultural perspectives.” Organizer: University of Pécs, Cultural Studies PhD Program. Cluj, 24–25 august Presented paper: “The Ways of Cooperation in Transylvanian Villages”
2005 SemEthnos 7. International summer course and research colloquia on symbols of nationalism. Organizer: Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, University of Szeged. Ópusztaszer, Ungaria, July 27 – August 3. (Presentation: The local use of national symbols)
2005 “The Modernization of East Central Europe: The social, cultural and environmental effects of the Northern Transylvanian Highway Project”. Conference organized by the Sapientia University, Cluj-Napoca. June 12–13 Presented paper: Effacing and Producing Tradition – cultural perspectives.
2004 “The cultural faces of Cluj-Napoca”. Conference organized by the University of Debrecen, Department of Ethnology, Academic Committee of Debrecen. 22–23 of November. Presented paper: Visible and invisible places in Cluj-Napoca.
2004 “Identities in the Carpathian Basin” – International conference organized by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences – Minority Research Institute, Budapest. 14–15 of November. Presented paper: The representations of identity and the (informal) economy.
2004 “Interethnic relations in ethnology” – International conference organized by the Hungarian Cultural Centre, Bucharest. 12–13 of November. Presented paper: Exclusion or acceptance? Gypsies’ and Hungarians’ economic relations.
2003 The 3rd summer seminar of social scientists. Organizer: Jakabffy Foundation – Harghita County Cultural Centre, 20–24 of August, Szeltersz, Harghita County. Introductory speech and moderator: De/re-peasantization in Romanian villages – debate
2003 4th Academic Conference, organized by the Romanian Association of The Hungarian PhD-Students’ and Young Scholars’ – Department of Social Sciences, Cluj-Napoca. 18–19 of April. Presented paper: Two ethnic groups in the informal economy.
2002 3rd Academic Conference, organized by the Romanian Association of The Hungarian PhD-Students’ and Young Scholars’ – Department of Social Sciences Cluj-Napoca. Presented paper: Reciprocity in Traditional Communities. Trust and Suppressed Mistrust.
2002 “The Day of Hungarian Science in Transylvania”. Conference organized by the Transylvanian Museum Association, Cluj-Napoca. Presented paper: Traditional economic strategies and informal economy – problems and questions.
2001 Problems in ethnologic research of Trei Scaune Region. Conference of Ethnologists, organized by the Museum Association of Kézdivásárhely, Kézdivásárhely. 23–24 of February, Presented paper: Boundaries and the Reproduction of the Boundaries in a Transylvanian Community.
1998 Students’ Scientific Competition, organized by the Hungarian Students Association of Cluj-Napoca (KMDSz). December, Presented paper: The Norms of the Common Life, 2nd place.
1997 Students’ Scientific Competition, organized by the „Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca. 2nd place. April, Presented paper: The Mental Structure of a Transylvanian Multiethnic Community.
1997 Annual Conference of the Kriza János Ethnographic Society, Cluj-Napoca. February, Presented paper: The Models of the Coexistence in Zabala (Covasna County)
LIST OF PUBLICATIONS
Books:
2013 Gazdasági adaptáció és etnicitás: gazdaság, vidékiség és integráció egy erdélyi térségben. [Economic Adaptation and Ethnicity: Economy, Rurality and Integration in a Transylvanian Region]. Romanian Institute for Research on National Minorities, Cluj-Napoca
2009 Kooperáló közösségek. Munkavégzés és kapcsolatok a falusi gazdálkodásban. [Cooperating communities. Work and Relations in Rural Economy]. Mentor, Târgu Mureş
2002 Közösség és intézmény. Stratégiák a lónai hagyományos gazdálkodásban. [Community and Institution. Strategies in Lóna’s Traditional Farming.], Kriza János Ethnographic Society, Cluj-Napoca
Studies:
2013 Does the Countryside Still Feed the Country? Producing and Reproducing the Rural in Transylvania. In: Luís Silva, Elisabete Figueiredo (eds.) Shaping Rural Areas in Europe: Perceptions and Outcomes on the Present and the Future. GeoJournal Library, vol. 107. 165–180.
2013 Agriculture, Work and Products: The Effects of the Market on the Economics of an Agricultural Settlement. Acta Ethnographica Hungarica 58 (1), pp. 163–176.
2012 Fading regional borders? The viewpoint of rural economy and way of life – Acta Ethnographica Hungarica 57 (1), 45–56.
2012 Where Are the Tourists? Shifting Production, Changing Localities in a SzeklerVillage In: A. Boscoboinik and H.. Horakova (eds.). From production to consumption. Transformation of rural communities. Münster–Zürich: Lit Verlag: 63–78.
2011 Hatalmi háromszögek. Power triangles. BUKSZ (Budapest Review of Books). 04/2011. 319-325. Review of: Sociology and Ethnography in East-Central and South-East Europe Scientific Self-Description in State Socialist Countries Edited by Ulf Brunnbauer, Claudia Kraft and Martin Schulze Wessel. Oldenbourg Verlag, München, 2011.
2011 “How could we know what we used to be?” Souvenirs, Salespeople and the Objectivation of National Memory. In: László Mód– András Simon (eds.): National Identity, Cultural Heritage, Memory and the Ópusztaszer National Heritage Park. 2011. 87–102.
2011 De la resursele locale la cele externe: etnicitate şi strategii economice într-un sat din Transilvania. [From local to external resources: ethnicity and economic strategies in a Transylvanian village.] In: Fosztó László – Toma Stefánia (eds.): Spectrum. Cercetări sociale despre romi. ISPMN–Kriterion, Cluj, 313–341.
2010 Etnikai különbségtétel a paraszti gazdaságban. [Ethnic differences in peasant economy] In: Feischmidt Margit (szerk). Különbségteremtő társadalom, Gondolat–MTA Kisebbségkutató Intézet, 266–280.
2009 Gazdasági stratégiák az etnicitás és társadalmi helyzet kontextusában. [Economic strategies in the context of ethnicity and social position] Néprajzi Látóhatár, XVIII: 3, 5–19.
2009 Erőforrások, stratégiák, szükségletek. Gazdasági és társadalmi adaptáció a családi épületek használatában. [Resources, strategies, demands. Economic and social adaptation in the use of family buildings.] In: Szabó Bálint (szerk). Többnemzetiségű régiók népi építészete. Utilitas Kiadó, Kolozsvár, 31–46.
2009 How does the story take shape between events and ethnographic interpretation? In: Berszán István (ed.): Orientation in the occurence. Komp-Press, Kolozsvár, 85–94.
2009 Etnikumok, hagyományőrző falvak [Dél-Erdély és Bánság népi kultúrája]. [Ethnicities, traditional villages. The folk culture of South Transylvania and Banat] In: Horváth Gyula (szerk.): A Kárpát-medence régiói. Dél-Erdély és Bánság. MTA–RKK – Dialóg Campus Kiadó, Pécs – Budapest, 430–443.
2009 „…jelen voltam…a kalákai mulatságban.” A kalákák és a nem munkajellegű tevékenységek kapcsolata. [Relations between work parties and forms leisure of activities] In: Bali János – Turai Tünde (szerk.): Életút, írások. Szilágyi Miklós tiszteletére. MTA Néprajzi Kutatóintézet – ELTE BTK Néprajzi Intézet, Budapest, 250–256.
2008 Együttműködési formák falun: történeti összefüggések és változások. [Forms of cooperation in rural areas: historical connections and changes ] In: Jakab Albert Zsolt – Keszeg Vilmos – Szabó Á. Töhötöm (szerk.): Kultúrakutatások és értelmezések. BBTE MNAT – KJNT, Kolozsvár, 223–250.
2008 A megtartó közösségtől az elmaradt faluig és vissza. [From the ideal community to the backward village – and back] In: Ilyés Sándor – Jakab Albert Zsolt –Szabó Á. Töhötöm (szerk.): Lenyomatok 7. Fiatal kutatók a népi kultúráról. BBTE MNAT – KJNT, Kolozsvár, 99–129.
2008 Anthropological Challenge – Ethnographic Tradition. The Quiet Transition of the Hungarian Ethnography in Romania. Studia Ethnologica Croatica, Zagreb, 2008., vol. 20, str. 161–180.
2008 „Akció indul!” A történet kisajátítása az etnográfiai értelmezésben. [The interpretive appropriation of stories in ethnography] BUKSZ, 20., 2., summer, 125–130.
2007 A falu és a közösség ereje: mit gondolunk a faluról, és miért gondoljuk azt? [The power of community: some aspects of how we think about the village] Várad, 2007. 4–5. 32–33. 104–109.
2007 A fiatal kutatók és az intézményesülési folyamatok. A néprajz példája. [Young scholars and the processes of institutetalization. The example of ethnography] Korunk 10. 24–26.
2006 Tájak változatossága, hagyományok gazdagsága: népi kultúra Észak-Erdélyben. [Ethnographic regions in Northern Transylvania] In: Horváth Gyulaed..): A Kárpát-medence régiói. Északnyugat-Erdély. MTA–RKK – Dialóg Campus Kiadó, Pécs – Budapest, 399–414.
2006 Morális elvek az erdélyi falusi gazdálkodásban. [Moral Principles in Transylvanian Rural Economy]. Tabula, 2006. 9/2 187–212.
2006 A kooperáció mint agrárstratégia. A gazdasági környezet és a fejlődés kérdései. [The cooperation as agrarian strategy. The aspects of economic milieu and development] In: Peti Lehel – Szabó Á. Töhötöm (eds.): Agrárörökség és specializáció a Kis-Küküllő mentén. Nis Kiadó, Cluj-Napoca, 101–151.
2006 Robogóból kisszekér. Három erdélyi kistáj gazdálkodásának erőforrása. [The Economic Resources of Three Transylvanian Districts] In: Jakab Albert Zsolt – Szabó Á. Töhötöm (eds.): Lenyomatok 5. Fiatal kutatók a népi kultúráról. Kriza Könyvek 27. Kriza János Ethnographic Society, Cluj-Napoca, 179–200.
2005 Patroni vechi, patroni noi: maghiari şi ţigani din perspectiva economiei informale. [Old and New Patrons: Hungarians and Gypsies from the Perspective of the Informal Economy] In: Chelcea Liviu (ed.): Economia informală în România. Pieţe, practici, sociale şi transformări ale statului după 1989. Paideia, Bucharest, 2005., 315–341.
2005 Közösségek falun. [Rural Communities] Művelődés, 2005. march, 25–29.
2004 Stratégiakeresés és alkalmazkodás. [Looking for Strategies and Different forms of Adaptation] In: Korunk, 12. 99–103.
2004 Látható és láthatatlan terek Kolozsváron. [Visible and Invisible Places in Cluj] Néprajzi Látóhatár. 3–4. 87–113.
2004 Kizárás vagy befogadás? Magyarok és cigányok az informális gazdaságban. [Exclusion or Acceptance? Gypsies’ and Hungarians’ Economic Relations.] Székelyföld. (VIII.) september, 122–144.
2004 Espaces visibles et invisibles à Cluj. In: Verebélyi Kincső (ed.): Artes Populares 19. Budapest, 23–41.
2004 Bizalom és elfojtott bizalmatlanság. A társasmunka és a kölcsönösség néhány jellemzője. [Trust and Suppressed Mistrust. Some Aspects of the Mutual Work and Reciprocity.] In: Szabó Levente – Virginás Andrea (eds): RODOSZ tanulmányok. Bölcsésztudományok. Kriterion, Cluj-Napoca, 22–41.
2003 A magyar nyelvű néprajzi felsőoktatás, kutatás és muzeológia Romániában. [The Hungarian Higher Education of Ethnography and the Hungarian Ethnographic Research in Romania] Néprajzi Látóhatár, 1–2. 83–115.
2003 Informális technikák a hagyományos gazdálkodásban. [Informal Techniques in Traditional Farming] In: Szabó Á. Töhötöm (ed): Lenyomatok. Fiatal kutatók a népi kultúráról. 2. Kriza János Ethnographic Society, Cluj-Napoca, 105–125.
2003 Határképzés – egy multietnikus falu térszerkezete. [Reproducing the Boundaries – the Case of a Multiethnic Community.] In: Dimény Attila – Szabó Á. Töhötöm (eds): Népi kultúra, társadalom Háromszéken. Kriza János Ethnographic Society, Cluj-Napoca, 120–128.
2002 Az erővonalak eltolódása – magyar–cigány gazdasági kapcsolatok egy székelyföldi faluban. [The Displacement of the Vectors – Hungarian-Gipsy Economic Relations in a SzeklerVillage] In: Szabó Á. Töhötöm (ed): Lenyomatok. Fiatal kutatók a népi kultúráról, Kriza János Ethnographic Society, Cluj-Napoca, 205–217.
2002 Közös állattartás – egyetlen alternatíva? [Common Animal Husbandry – isn’t there any other Way?] Művelődés 4. 25–27.
2001 Hagyomány és változás Magyarlónán, [Tradition and Change at Magyarlóna] Művelődés 6. 22–24.
2001 Afrika nyomában – Gróf Teleki Samu után még egyszer, [In the wake of Africa. Once again after Gróf Teleki Samu]. In: Korunk 4. 3–12.
2001 A magyar temetők fejfadíszítményeinek lehetséges jelentései [About the Meanings of the Wooden Grave-Post’s Ornament in Hungarian Cemeteries] in: Művelődés 3. 21–24
2000 A társadalom(tudományok) és a néprajz természete. [The Nature of the Social Sciences and Ethnography] In: Korunk, 3, 96–99.
1999 „Közös asztalt nem ütünk.” Egy gazdatársaság közösség– és intézményvizsgálata. [The Norms of the Common Life. Research on a Community’s Economical Institution]. In: Borbély Éva – Czégényi Dóra (eds.) Kriza János Ethnographic Society, Cluj-Napoca, 124–136.
Articles
2008 Kalákatánc: a kalákák és a szórakozási alkalmak összefüggéseiről. [On the relation between distraction and mutual work] Örökségünk, 4. 14–15.
2008 Egy sajátos együttműködési forma: a kaláka. [A special form of reciprocity: the kaláka] Örökségünk, 3. 16–17.
2007 A hűtőház harca a kólás palackkal. Gondolatok a romániai agrárszektor felzárkózásáról. [Some notes about the accession of the agrarian sector in Romania] Krónika, February
2006 In 2006 I published a series of articles for the public about the culture of the wood. Intarzia. Special journal for timber processing 2006/1–12.
2005 Az elveszett terrort kereső pásztor. A falu, a forradalom és a terroristák. [The shperd who lost his terrorism. The village, the revolution and the terrorists] Korunk, 8. 49–54.
2004 Narratíva és kontextus – néprajz és társadalomtudomány. [Narrative and context – ethnography and social science] A Hét. August
Interviews
2005 A megváltozott néprajz ma is fontos társadalom- és embertudomány. [The changed ethnography is still an important human and social science] Interview with Gazda Klára, ethnographer. Székelyföld, october, 77–89.
Reviews
2007 Tudósok és aktivisták – beszédmódok és szórványok. Regio, nr. 4. 128–138. (review of Balogh Balázs – Bodó Barna – Ilyés Zoltán (ed.): Regionális identitás, közösségépítés, szórványgondozás. Lucidus Kiadó, Budapest, 2007.)
2007 Tanszékek, tudományok és tudományos fórumok. Korunk XVIII. Nr. 10. 126–127. (Prezentarea periodicelor de ştiinţe umane şi sociale ale specializărilor în limba maghiară din cadrul UBB)
2007 Review of Halász Péter: A moldvai magyarok hagyományos állattartása. General Press Kiadó, Budapest, é.n. 504 oldal. Erdélyi Társadalom anul 5. nr. 2. 197–203.
2002 A tér terepesítése, avagy a terep teresítése. Regio 4, 370–378. (review of Kovács Nóra – Szarka László (ed.): Tér és terep. Tanulmányok az etnicitás és az identitás kérdésköréből. Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest, é.n.)
2001 A testtől elszakított lélek. Ethnica (review of Virt István: Elszakasztottad a testemtől én lelkemet. A moldvai és a Baranya megyei csángók halottas szokásai és hiedelmei. Kriza Könyvek 8. Kriza János Ethnographic Society, Cluj, 2001)
1999 Számos esztendők számos szokásai. Látó, 1999. 2, 111–112, (review of Barabás László: Forog az esztendő kereke, Mentor, Tg. Mureş, 1998)
Other publications:
Editing
2005 Zakariás Erzsébet: Édesanyám kicsi korban megtanított. [Mother taught me in childhood] Triade, Cluj
2004 Lenyomatok 3. Fiatal kutatók a népi kultúráról. [Imprints 3. Young scholars about popular culture] Kriza Könyvek 23. Kriza János Ethnographic Society, Cluj
2003 Lenyomatok 2. Fiatal kutatók a népi kultúráról. [Imprints 2. Young scholars about popular culture] Kriza Könyvek 19. Kriza János Ethnographic Society, Cluj
2002 Lenyomatok. Fiatal kutatók a népi kultúráról. [Imprints. Young scholars about popular culture] Kriza Könyvek 12. Kriza János Ethnographic Society, Cluj
2002 Életutak és életmódok. [Life stories and ways of life] Kriza Könyvek 15. Kriza János Ethnographic Society, Cluj
Co-editing
2006 Jakab Albert Zsolt – Szabó Á. Töhötöm (ed.): Lenyomatok 5. Fiatal kutatók a népi kultúráról. [Imprints 5. Young scholars about popular culture] Kriza Könyvek 27. Kriza János Ethnographic Society, Cluj
2006 Peti Lehel – Szabó Á. Töhötöm (ed.): Agrárörökség és specializáció a Kis-Küküllő mentén. [Agrarian heritage and specialization in Târnava Mică valley] Nis Publishing, Cluj
2005 Jakab Albert Zsolt – Szabó Á. Töhötöm (ed.): Lenyomatok 4. Fiatal kutatók a népi kultúráról. [Imprints 4. Young scholars about popular culture] Kriza Könyvek 26. Kriza János Ethnographic Society, Cluj
2004 Pozsony Ferenc – Szabó Á. Töhötöm (ed.): Anyakönyves vizsgálatok erdélyi településeken [Studies on registers in Transylvania]. The yearbook of Kriza János Ethnographic Society 12. Kriza János Ethnographic Society, Cluj
2003 Dimény Attila – Szabó Á. Töhötöm (ed.): Népi kultúra, társadalom Háromszéken. [Popular culture and society in Trei Scaune Region] Kriza Könyvek 17. Kriza János Ethnographic Society, Cluj
Editing periodicals
2001 Faragó József: Uzoni betlehemes 1942-ben és 1943-ban. [A Christmas custom in Ozun in 1942 and 1943] The Methodic Issue of Kriza János Ethnographic Society, XI. 2001/1–2.
2002 Szilágyi Enikő Hajnalka: Az Erdélyi Múzeum néprajzi írásainak annotált bibliográfiája. [The bibliography of the ethnographic studies published in Erdélyi Múzeum] The Methodic Issue of Kriza János Ethnographic Society, XII. 2002/1–2.