Zempleni also studied the rites of political reburial in post-Soviet Hungary, founded on the Hungarian notions of homeland, nation, and country. With medievalists and anthropologists invited to Collegium Budapest, he expanded this study of European spatial structures, from occidental history to the notion of homeland, and, more generally, to the distinctive traits of national societies, from the striking specificities of national modes of thought to the specificities of self-worship that nations devote to their dead and to their relics. Co-director and author of several films and texts on the reform of anthropological museology, he designed and produced a multimedia installation on Senufo divination, accessible since 2006 in the Quai Branly Museum’s permanent exhibit.
