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2016-12-31

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Jassal, Smıta Tewarı
Mura, Elif Sabahat
Kurt, Eyüp Murat

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This project is aimed as an exploratory ethnographic exercise to document collective memories among inhabitants of a small slice of rural Turkey - a group of 3 contiguous villages in Sivas. By excavating the hitherto unvoiced peoples’ participation in the larger Nationalist project, it will elaborate on the existing literature on oral history and collective remembering.The rural setting of three villages in Sivas provides a small enough geographical universe to start with an analysis of the impact of how the “peasantist” ideology and the state project of Peasant Houses were received as early as the 1930s and their elements remembered today. In addition to oral memories, the study will draw upon the material culture of the region including photographic evidence such as family albums, family correspondence and information relating to cemeteries. In this sense, the project also seeks to initiate new collections to possibly serve as the core of an ongoing village archive for potential scholars - one that may also be fruitfully built upon by future researchers. Finally, the project aims to benefit from a cross-cultural perspective. It is hoped that the Indian case will offer a reference point for our investigations. The proposed research is planned as a follow-up exercise to the recently concluded manuscript and edited volume based on cross-cultural conversations between India and Turkey.

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Antropoloji, Sosyoloji, Tarih

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