Inspiring: Visitors look at photos taken by Hungarian professor of socio-cultural anthropology Gabor Vargyas. – Photo vtv.vn Viet Nam News HÀ NỘI – About 70 photos are on display at the Việt Nam Museum of Ethnology to show the lives of the Bru – Vân Kiều ethnic people of central Việt Nam. The photos are part of an exhibition entitled Divinities, Ancestors and Shamans: The Bru – Vân Kiều in The Trường Sơn Range, and were taken by Hungarian professor of socio-cultural anthropology Gabor Vargyas in the 1980s. The exhibition will run until January 2019. Visitors will have a chance to learn about the life and religion of the Vietnamese Bru – Vân Kiều ethnic group, who live primary in the two central provinces of Quảng Trị and Quảng Bình. Between 1985 and 1989, Professor Vargyas spent one and a half years in the Central Highlands in a Bru – Vân Kiều Village in Hướng Hóa, Khe Sanh in Quảng Trị. He moved into a local home and was accepted as a member of the family. He lived, slept, ate and worked with the family, sharing their fate in good times and bad times. He learnt their language and spent all his time and energy on getting to know Bru – Vân Kiều culture from the inside. “The circumstances were more than romantic,” said Vargyas. “To reach the village, one had to walk a whole day on forest paths and cross rivers on suspension bridges. There was no electricity, shops,… [Read full story]
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