Situated at the north-east end of the expansion of the Turkish world, in Eastern Siberia, Yakutes adapted the steppe pastoral system to an environment of taiga, characterised by a continental climate of unhearted rigour. They keep cows, horses and reindeer. Horse breeding, the main outlet of which i...

‘titrebSummary’/titrebIn Hungarian ethnology, research on chamanism has a long tradition. As early as the 19th century, it has been established that the former Hungarians religion (prior to the 19th century) was chamanism. Since then, scientists have been investigating his traces and believing him t...

Understanding the phonologic structure of the Turkish language, is not possible to examine not only the written language. Investigation and examination of the local dialects of Turkish language will shed light on many points that can not be understood. Dialect studyings are directly resource of Turk...

Turkish have possessed the features of being nomadic and settled for centuries. In other words, while it is possible to find Turkish who have fulfilled the necessities of being settled in one place, in another place, at the same period of time, it is possible to find Turkish who are showing the feat...

Semiotics, appeared as a significant field in the history of thought in the beginning of the twentieth century, was applied to various scientific approaches and developed parallel to them. The approach labelled in the 1990s as “ecosemiotics”, “ecological semiotics” or “semiotic ecology” has taken an...

In the Archive of General Directorate of Cultural Heritage and Museums rendering service within Turkish Republic Ministry Of Culture and Tourism, there are important studies called “promotion thesis” or “promotion study” in the inventory of the Directorate prepared by museologists working in museums...

The present article examines the methods and stages of the policy of Turkification of the non-Muslim toponyms in the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Turkey. Being stable linguistic facts, toponyms supply valuable material for topography and studies of dialects, ethnography, history and geography....

Mentioned book was prepared by Prof. Şinasi Tekin who is specialized in Turkish ethnology, Turcologist and linguist. Book includes information under the title of role in culturel exchanges of writing and paper, paper-making, kind of papers and printery, manuscript and role of paper mark in its datin...

Conflicting understandings of the Ottoman and Bosnian past, which has been pragmatically reinterpreted through the nationalising gaze in the 1990s in the former Yugoslav space, tend to encompass different reinterpretations of the most prominent Bosnian (historical) figures. The Nobel Laureate Ivo An...

Mouth research has often been carried out by researchers of language and folklore. Therefore, the assessment of data obtained in the research was limited to the work carried out in those areas. Oral texts show a large number of data that will contribute to different fields of social science, in part...

The History of Religions, along with its other functional features, is very interested in the religious ethnology, and so it is considered as “the science of the religious peoples” both in global and local perspectives. This article deals with Hikmet Tanyu (1918- 1992)’s ethnographical phenomenology...

<p>Conflicting understandings of the Ottoman and Bosnian past, which has been pragmatically reinterpreted through the nationalising gaze in the 1990s in the former Yugoslav space, tend to encompass different reinterpretations of the most prominent Bosnian (historical) figures. The Nobel Laureate Ivo...

When we speak of the virtual word, one of the first social networking sites that comes to mind, not only in Turkey but all over the world must be Facebook. With our increased daily usage of Facebook, this social networking site is where both our daily lives and interpersonal relationships are tra...

has been an attraction for humanity from the earliest periods of history. The area with large forest texture also has prairie vegetation and climate. One of the most important characteristics of the region is that it is very rich in streams and rivers. Following the development of agriculture and li...

In accord with the increasing cancer rates, cancer became a highly visible illness, and cancer patients’ associations became more active and popular in Turkey. Many of those associations emphasize the concept of “quality of life,” and aim at inculcating a holistic and individualistic approach on hea...

W. Radloff, worldwide known Turcologist, has accomplished numerous important works on almost every field related to Tucology such as dialectography, dialectology, lexiocography, lexicology, comparative historical phonetics and grammar of Turkish, transcription and facsimile of Turkish texts writt...

The paper tries to present the origin and development of the Dobrujan question within the framework of the Bulgarian-Romanian relations. The text deals with the historical development of this question during the period after the Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878) until World War II. Attention is also pai...

The text focuses on the personality of the Czech folklorist and artist Ludvík Kuba and his field work in Bosnia and Herzegovina at the end of the 19th century. In particular, it looks at his perception of ethnicity and the influence of Western and Turkish culture on the Slavic population of Bosnia a...

To άρθρο είναι βασισμένο σε εθνογραφική έρευνα που πραγματοποιήθηκε κατά την διάρκεια της εξέγερσης του Γκεζί το καλοκαίρι του 2013, καθώς και σε υποστηρικτικό εθνογραφικό υλικό που συλλέχθηκε πριν αλλά και μετά την εξέγερση. Αντλώντας θεωρητική πλαισίωση από το θεωρητικό σχήμα του Φ. Μπροντέλ, η εξ...

The strength of certain literary representations is such that they remain deeply engraved in collective memory to the detriment of other, less well-known representations, even if they are part of the historical testimonies from which they were drawn. For example, the Mémoires de Françoise Bertaut de...

Deliberately focusing on a wide area in the larger Mediterranean space and beyond, ranging over three continents, touching regions from the Sahara to the Caucasus and Russia via the Middle East, and adopting an approach with case studies running from the sixteenth to the twenty-first centuries, the...

historically, Turkey is an “other” for Europe. European identity and Turkish identity have been formed through an ambivalent relationship (eloignement vs. proximite). This explains why Turkey’s formal association with the European Union has been a problem — forcing each of the partners to question t...

This article proposes to analyse the facon of which the Turkish central administrations have changed their organisations and modes of action as a result of the European integration process. He investigated the case of Turkish Ministers to assess the impact of this process at three levels: inter-orga...

National hearing; The history of the Turkish Republic is not indissociable from that of democracy. It joins above all that of the State. “The Turkish State is a Republic”, says the first article of the 1982 Constitution. The advent of the Republic has meant that a reformed state has been in the proc...

after three decennies of Turkish immigration to Europe and seventy-five years of modernite kemalist, the Turkish migration family should be in line with the modele of the western nuclear family. Thus, arranges, sex separation and strong patrilinearite are no longer just ‘bad memories’. However, if w...